In opposition to the Temp Act, farm industry memo claims that Caribbean and Latino immigrants would “feel very comfortable working in New York in the summertime.”
Why do these sorts of people think, “we can’t stay in business if we’re not allowed to <description of abuse >,” means they should be allowed to abuse instead of put out of business? Does it really never occur to them that they should be supplanted by better alternatives?
Their heads are so far up their own asses they forget ‘if’ offers two solutions.
They usually don’t even say it will put them out of business. They say something like “not polluting the groundwater with toxic wastes would place an undue burden on our industry”. Which translates to “we won’t maximize our profits”. And the brainwashed among us think “oh yeah, I get it, they are required by law to maximize corpo profits on behalf of shareholders” (not true) “so of course they have to be allowed to {pollute, enslave, hire children, provide unsafe working conditions, lie, misrepresent, not clean up up after themselves (uncapped oil/gas wells, nuclear waste, mines leaching chemicals, “superfund” (public $) cleanup sites, etc} or the poor dears might be in big trouble all because of us Poors”.
the New York Farm Bureau (NYFB), the state’s largest agricultural industry lobbying group
“It must be mentioned that many agricultural workers come from very weather countries (sic), via the federal H2A program, such as Mexico and Jamaica, and working (sic) and would feel very comfortable working in New York in the summertime,” the memo stated.
“very weather countries”. These lobbyist scum have sub-zero IQs apparently.
The NYFB’s claims are nothing new. Pseudoscientific theories about non-white laborers’ ability to withstand extreme heat date back centuries. In 1851, Samuel Cartwright, a Louisiana physician, justified the enslavement of Africans in a letter to U.S. Secretary of State Daniel Webster, claiming that white people are naturally unsuited to work on hot cotton and sugar plantations but for the enslaved Africans the work “proves to be only a wholesome and beneficial exercise to the negro.”
Chinese laborers in Hawaii sugarcane fields were also viewed as being more adaptable to the harsh climate than white laborers. Japanese fruit pickers in California were believed to “endure the heat found in a few localities better than most other races.” Mexican laborers who worked in the smoldering Pennsylvania steel mills in the 1920s were also believed to “endure heat well.”
I think that wealthy white corporate management and its lobbyist flunkies would endure jobs in arctic gulags much better than anyone else. Efficiency is the name of the game, and there’s already a big federal domestic terrorist-military org that can help these people get up there to the northern wastes, an org, appropriately enough, named after frozen water.
Sounds like Grok is writing policy now.
It’s baffling seeing the leaders of the free world are incredibly stupid.
It’s very disappointing, but I don’t know how you get good people in a job like that. With so much responsibility, up to having people’s lives in your hands, while having to usually reach some type of consensus with other people, half of whom act like it’s their job to make you fail, and having the majority of the population second guess you on every action you take or don’t take, I’d never want that job.
With power consolidated into so few people in a top down power structure, it may only leave bull headed know it alls and egomaniacs in those positions. Add in our current technocrats pushing AI and this is the slop I think we’re going to start seeing much more often.
I commented in another post today about San Francisco’s mayor canceling his personal plan to address homelessness because after starting it against the advice of the actual people working to address homelessness, he tried a quick fix to Steve money to make the problem go away, he found the exact same issues those volunteers told him he was going to have. I know if I were stuck in the job, I’d be wanting to solicit experts for everything like this, but at the same time, your term would probably be over before you got anywhere.
Perhaps we’re just reaching the limits of what our current power structures can handle? It feels like everywhere is in just about the same mess these days.
It sounds like what they’re saying is that people from hot areas tend to be relatively comfortable in the heat, which IME, as someone from a hot place, does tend to be true. I used to work outdoors 16 hours a day with a 120 heat index. Now I live in a temperate area, and I see everyone wearing shorts and complaining about the heat when I’m still in jeans and a t-shirt and feel pleasantly warm.
