GOING SOUTH !!!

U.S. farmer, Steve Scaroni, owner / operator of Valley Harvesting
& Packing company has moved his $50 million a year business to Mexico because he says he can not find enough workers here in the U.S.
Mr. Scaroni employs approx. 500 people in his company and says quite simply "Americans are not raising their children to be farmers", and adds that he has been to Washington 6 times himself to lobby congress to ease restrictions on legal migrant workers.

The other side of the story comes for the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture who says lack of workers comes from the fact that the average farm worker wages have only increased 3% in the last 7 years.
The average farmer makes $9/hour which is lower then farm wages were 10 years ago.
Also basic health care is left to the federal government, and there are no benefit packages to speak of.
The Dept of Agriculture also states that part of the agriculture industry problems come from their overall refusal to mechanize.

It should be stated that Mr. Scaroni says it costs $10 million a year to run his business.
So if you do the math......
He makes $50 million/year
It costs $10 million/year to run the business
Which, if my math is correct, gives him and his investors a
$40 million/year profit!!!

So the reality is....If business' like Mr. Scaronis would take less profit, they could pay better hourly wages, benefits, and healthcare packages, and I doubt that they would have any problems at all in finding American workers.

But once again Corporate America is NOT going to cut into that almighty profit margin now are they!!!!!!