Americans have turned lazy! On Saturday, June 21. 2025, Raw Story published this headline, “‘They quit after a few hours’: Farmers admit they can’t find American workers.”
In a deep dive focusing on one farmer who voted for Trump, 36-year-old J.J. Ficke of Kirk, Colorado, the Washington Post is reporting that he along with other farmers are facing possible ruination now that the round-up of immigrants have begun in earnest and promised helpis uncertain.
“The federal government had promised JJ a $200,000 grant, spread across two years, to cover the cost of a seasonal farmhand from Latin America. In a place where local, legal help was nearly impossible to keep<‘ the Post is reporting before adding, “But then Trump, in the earliest days of his second term, threatened to break tens of thousands of those deals, suspending billions in agricultural funding and decimating the staffs that managed it. Swept up in the freeze was JJ and the $50 million grant program he’d signed up for along with 140 other farmers across the country.”
Now those farmers, many of whom supported the president, are being left to scramble for workers of which there are few to chose from and worried about the future.
Noting, “JJ had joined 81 percent of Yuma County’s voters in supporting Trump, whom he considered the better of two bad options,” the report added, “JJ’s grant was frozen in late January as top administrators considered whether to cancel it. Over the next two months, more than 20 farmers requested $4 million owed to them, according to documents reviewed by The Post. None were paid.”
That, in turn, has other farmers in the same boat and lamenting they can’t depend on American citizens for manpower,
“I’ve employed Americans, and they quit after a few days,” lamented Wisconsin Tracy Vinz, “They quit after a few hours.”
“I hate to admit it, but White America has turned soft.” said Thomas Robb, National Director of the Knights Party of the Ku Klux Klan, centrally based in Harrison, Arkansas. “I was speaking to a gentleman, actually a member of the Knights that grew up in the Rustbelt region of America. He said that among coal mining and factory work, farming was a big occupation where he grew up. He told me that when he went to school, many students that he knew came from farm working families. Before and after school these kids had farm chores to do, and he doesn’t remember any instance where these kids complained about doing chores around the farm because someday they would be running the family farm. During hay cutting season these farms would hire students to help cut and bale the hay, and the money was good. He told me now when he visits his hometown all but a few of those farms are left, the factories are all gone, and the coal mines have shut down. He said the once bustling areas are now mere ghost towns. Many people today don’t know what an honest days work is. The government is more than happy to pay people not to work. Many make more money on welfare. We have our government to blame for this. Farms shouldn’t be using illegal immigrants as farmhands, but change needs to happen within our government. We need to stop rewarding people who are on welfare, and put them on these farms to work. We also should not be exporting products from farms, but using these products for American citizens. This would boost business for farmers and in turn they could pay higher wages to their farmhands. This wouldn’t happen overnight, but we need to start making these changes now.”
