“I’ll admit to you, I bleed Republican. However, this has left a sour taste in my mouth,” Carlson said.

Keep bleeding, then.

The farm has been in her family for generations but has struggled over the past several years amid the rising cost of fuel, fertilizer and other operating expenses. [...] Since taking over the family farm in 2019 [...]

While I fully admit running a farm is a massive endeavor, the fact that the farm started having persistent issues shortly after she took over indicates to me that at least part of the problem is poor management.

“The American worker doesn’t like labor, they don’t like to do laborious jobs,” Carlson said. “They don’t want to do the hard labor, and that’s what’s frustrating, because we would love to hire U.S. workers, but we can’t get them to show up. We can’t get them to follow through. We can’t get them to finish the season.”

The American worker is perfectly happy to perform laborious jobs - just not at the rate you're willing to pay them. It's called "acting your wage".

I'm a Republican whose life was going Decently under Biden so I voted for the Man who Campaigned on RUINING my Life! Why did he Ruin my Life?

Why do they need immigrant help? I see a shitload of kids that can work the farm. That's how my dad's family operated an apple orchard north of Detroit. Of course, they all died from cancers after years of exposure to pesticides without PPE, but that's a problem for later!

-tiny violin-

The liberal tears are from laughing too hard.

"I bleed Republican."

Fuck you. Hope her farm folds and the debt chases her the rest of her life.

Oh hell revive it...just after he or his friends buy it and use it to profit from your starving family.

These people are so fucking stupid

Thoughts and prayers.

Let's face it. We have been talking about technology eliminating the drudge work of society for decades. We used technology to automate so many tedious but not necessarily body destroying jobs. Farm work is body destroying and should be automated as much as is technologically feasible.

From the CDC:

• Deaths

  • In 2022, workers in the agriculture, forestry, fishing, and hunting industry had one of the highest fatal injury rates (18.6 deaths per 100,000 full-time equivalents), compared to 3.7 deaths per 100,000 FTE for all U.S. industries.
  • Transportation incidents were the leading cause of death for these farmers and farm workers. Other leading causes were violence by other persons or animals and contact with objects and equipment.
  • In 2022, over half (56%) of deaths in the agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting industry occurred to workers 55 years of age and older.

Cherry farmer? Really? The first time wasn't bad enough?

Bootstraps.

Whiner.

If only there was some way she could have known. Anyway....

better get your family working on the farm then.

I truly wish these people would wake up. I know we're mostly smarter than these people so the schadenfreude it's easy to come by, but most of us aren't thriving under capitalism, and 100% of us are compromising voting for one of the two viable political parties.

I didn't vote for the guy and even I didn't even imagine the level of destruction and chaos that's come so far.

Dumb ass mf