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xboxgreen said:
the-pi-guy said:

Office jobs were just an example. Plenty of people would rather take the millions of retail, service jobs etc.

There was already a labor shortage for agriculture. 

Farmers Struggle to Find Labor, Threatening Americans’ Food Supply and Prices

Help Wanted: How Farmers Are Tackling a Labor Shortage

Farmers Across the Midwest Struggle to Hire Domestic Employees

You can find plenty of articles about how there are too many open agriculture jobs going back years. 

Your fantasy that Farmers are suddenly going to be able to pay enough, and that American workers are suddenly going to pick up the jobs that were already available, is just that. It's not rooted in any kind of reality. 

xboxgreen said:

Illegal immigrants are getting benefits like free health care because they will never be held accountable for the bills they rack up.

Except they're not, except in cases of emergency. Thanks to Ronald Reagan. 

NIMBYism isn't Democratic policy.  It shows up everywhere on the political spectrum. 

Also the market doesn't really want to be free. Corporations want to be the exclusive provider of a service/good. That's why they buy up competition. 

Americans would do the agriculture jobs if they are payed fairly. Look at how many Americans work on oil rigs. Not to mention if you remove welfare and section 8 housing you would see a lot more workers in agriculture.

Stealing money through taxes and distributing it is not a free market. Housing, Food, education, and health care would be a lot cheaper if it weren't for democrats and their socialist policies. Democrats interfere in the market more than any political group.

Anything can be consider an emergency now days for medical care. Democrats allowed illegal immigrants to pour into our country just to gain votes. Shows how horrible they are.

Again, even if they work in agriculture jobs if they would be payed fairly, Americans wouldn't buy that food because it would radically jack up the prices (as explained before, by at least 500% to make up for the much higher salary of the workers). By that point, food is either becoming a luxury or you'd have to import from abroad to avoid food prices from exploding.