Do you people who  are HARPING about the price of vegetables increasing?
540125
Without illegal aliens, the price of agricultural products and other goods and services will NOT soar. \nThe definitive study on this subject is the University of Iowa's "How Much Is That Tomato?" \nThe study concludes that 'since labor is such a small component of the end-price of agricultural products \n(which includes price to the growers, transportation costs, processing /storage costs, grocers' profit, etc.), \nusing minimum wage workers instead of illegal aliens would increase prices of agricultural products \nby approximately 3 percent in the summer and 4 percent in the winter ... \nhardly the making of $10 heads of lettuce, $25 hamburgers, $1,000 per night Days Inn hotel rooms like the pro-illegal alien lobby claims. \n\nWe have the disastrous diseases that are bankrupting our hospitals \n(86 hospitals in California declared bankruptcy in the last two years Due To TREATING UNINSURED ILLEGAL ALIENS)\n  \n--Tuberculosis (which claims two-million people a year now, and was virtually wiped out before the Mexican/Latino invasion), \n--Chagas Disease (known as the "Kiss of Death," kills 50,000 annually), \n--Hepatitis A and B (there have been 100,000 reported cases passed on by illegal workers/carriers in the food industry in the last couple of years), \n--and leprosy (also virtually unknown in the United States exceeded 7,000 new cases) are only a few of the “treats” our Mexican friends have brought to America.  \nWe also welcome malaria (which had been obliterated), \n--the new and exciting West Nile Virus, \n--and E-coli intestinal parasites.\n\nAll THIRD WORLD DISEASES!!!! Which Were Obsolete In The USA 15 Years Ago - \nThese Diseases Have Been Reintroduced Into Our Society By ILLEGAL ALIENS Crossing Our Borders WITHOUT PROPER HEALTH SCREENS - \nONE Of The Requirements For An Immigrant To Enter Our Nation
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They are doing that in many smaller communities.  Just imagine you owned the local grocery store and are making a good living.  Walmart comes into town, you are out of business.  You will never be able to get the wholesale prices that they get or sell the different products that they are able to.\n\nThey are lowering income levels of the entire community when they move in.  That is according to their own study.\n\nAnother issue with Walmart is how they deal with suppliers.  If you had a farm and sold your produce to Walmart, they will say we need a 20% discount from you.  And if they are you only customer, what do you do?\n\nThey are hard on the community (store owners) they move in and the suppliers.
711337
Pretty well.  I've notice a lot of things have gone up in price.  That's sad.  Retailers always do that during the holidays because, they know people still need to buy Christmas gifts.
634144
Wow, who doesn't it effect?  The ONLY people who say it doesn't effect them are the ones who use the ILLEGALS for their own benefits.  Sure some people say that without the ILLEGALS our produce price would sky rocket.  Our lawn's what would become of them?  Wow that's pretty laughable that we can't even take care of our own property now a days.  Oh ya, what about our houses, who would clean them?  Of course we surely can't do that ourselves and on and on and on.  Sure people like Geraldo says that we will be paying $10.00 for an avocado (and I thought he had some intelligence) but the truth is that people want to use scare ta tics that aren't intelligent, let alone true.  The truth is that our houses would still be clean and our grass cut and on and on and on.  Sure some of our products would go up a bit but....... Our TAXES would go DOWN, Our EDUCATION SYSTEM would be BETTER OFF, Our HOSPITAL BILLS would go down and the care of the people would go UP, Our INSURANCE PREMIUMS would go down on ALL levels.  In reality, REAL US CITIZENS would save BILLIONS without all of the ILLEGAL ALIENS in OUR COUNTRY. Just think about it, we could buy a whole lot of those $10.00 a piece avocado's!
797945
The price of goods are increasing steadily without a minimum wage increase.  If it cost $4 for a gallon of milk and the minimum wage is $5.15 then, yes, I think the minimum wage increase would help those people making minimum wage.  Oh, and it's not just teenagers making minimum wage. \n\nHere's an except from an article on the people making minimum wage. \n\n"One reason even some Republicans are mulling the wage hike is that the number of single mothers making minimum wage has nearly doubled in the last 10 years. Of Americans making less than $7.25 an hour, half are over 24 years old, and about half are primary household earners. Sixty-two percent are white, 16 percent are black, and 17 percent are Hispanic. Nearly twice as many are women than men.
56082
Last time they did it, before it was even put into action, grocery prices immediately jumped.  Those who made minimum wage spent the extra on groceries.  Middle class people on a salary had to bite the bullet and pay more.  Miminum wage jobs aren't for making a living--they are for a second income or teenagers or college students.  Raising minimum wage won't improve the plight of those with minumum wage jobs.
679367
I shop for two people, myself and my husband. I spend 30-40$/week(including groceries, cleaning items). I live in Albany, NY. It becomes more when I have to buy furnitures or books not normally bought. We are vegetarians. So we don't buy meat.
905527
If your assertion was true, wouldn't THEY be the ones with a thriving economy trying to curtail US from leeching off of it?\n\nHmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm...........................
910464
I've already shared with you my views on this matter. Would you be surprised if I told you they haven't changed since this morning? Eating commercially raised cattle, pigs, etc is bad for them and worse for us. They have their final revenge when we die of atherosclerotic heart disease. Oh well, what goes around comes around as they say.
646463
No, but an increase in wages would increase the costs of many goods and services depending on how labor intensive they are. So that would offset the increase by a good portion. I personally think that increasing it based on personal preformance is a better adjustment to make.
633961
I don't know where you live, but in the Maryland area the cost is going up 72% July 1st!!!
671944
I know I'M approaching a great depression! lol  But seriously, you're right. Something's got to change. If not, a lot of people will suffer. Some people believe that eventually, things will just slow down, more people will quit going places, unless they need to, more people will ride motorcycles or bikes (or horses), etc..\nThe problem with this is, prices may go up even more, for the people upstairs to try to continue the lifestyle they're accustomed to, to make up for the amount of money they used to bring in. Pretty bleak.
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Yes I do.100%.  According to the anti-immigrant people, "immigrants are a drain on society."  If this is true, then during the day on May 1st the stock market will surge, and the economy will boom.  If not, we prove them wrong once and for all.  We know what will happen! \n\nThe people who say that they will buy more things on that day say that because they know that this boycott will affect the u.s. economy and then they say it's pointles!Don't pay attention to them if it was "pointless"  they will not say that they will buy more things on that day.
500557
The price of bl00dy everything is going up.............way of life
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I don't know if you will consider this an intelligent answer or bashing, but this is my opinion: Not only would prices go up, but availability would go down.  I tried doing agricultural work in the 70's when I was a young and inquisitive hippie type.  I cannot imagine that any of us spoiled Americans who could possibly get any other type of work would want to do that for more than a few days.  It is NOT FUN.\n  I think that the produce would rot in the fields if there were no Mexicans available to pick it.  Most of us would be unable and unwilling to go out there and do anything that is that uncomfortable and dirty and exposes you to the sun, and agricultural chemicals, snakes, etc.\n  It is my opinion that the hype over closing the Mexican border has more to do with making middle Americans feel insecure than it does with Mexicans really.  I also believe that the typical Mexican working in the US would much prefer to be legal, would chose to be if it were easily possible.\n  I frequently travel from the middle of Mexico to the middle of the US by bus, the border has buses from Mexico lined up 24/7 all full of Mexicans, all going to every part of the US.  You never hear about those people on the news, do you?\n  I have found travel in the US to be less easy, more expensive, and more hassle these last few years.  What we need to be asking is why are our freedoms being curtailed?  All of this hype over Mexicans is just being put out to distract Americans from the facts of lessening freedom for us.  \n  Of course our country could not run without the Mexican work force.  Take a look around your own town wherever it is, I bet you will find a whole section that is Mexican.  Mexican groceries, clothes, Drs, all anyone would need, including buses that are totally run in Spanish and cross the border daily.\n  You needn't worry that the borders are going to be closed to Mexicans, what you need to worry about is are they going to be closed to YOU unless you are rich...  The folks who are putting out this brainwashing have no real interest in the rights/abuses of Mexicans, they are after your rights.\n  I hate to put this out there, because it is probably just going to get me in trouble, but I think a lot of the stuff that is on the news is nothing but brainwashing.\n  Some of the people here in Mexico believe that there may be as much as 30% of the Mexican workforce in the US at this time, and I know for sure that the American retirees are here spending money like crazy, I spend most of mine here in Mexico.\n  There are larger issues of economics and social control here, you can count on it.  We are not being told the truth, we are being manipulated by someone, I have no idea who, but I bet they are super-rich...  And they have no intention of cutting off their own supply of cheap labor.  They just want you to be too afraid to do anything but earn and spend money which is all they care about you for.  Whew! glad I got that off my chest, hope you find my opinion interesting.
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Yes ... much better off.\nNo ... much worse off.\n\nI guess it balances itself out.
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It is happening more and more-and people are putting the pressure on Government and Sates.\n It is going to get tougher for Illegals as time goes by.\n\nWe are going to hear a lot of sour grapes.