Astonish Me: Should They Get Paid?

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What I found more interesting and really astonish me is the amount of money they get paid. How that is the farmers are the only ones who don’t get a minimum wage, and now they barely start to get paid overtime? They work on the fields and bring food to our tables, without them by this time either we plant our own food or we just die. It does not make sense to me that they get paid that little. I want to think that the government does not include them because of their heritage, or because most of them may be Mexicans or Philippines and they don’t like them. But hey! Start to think! Why is that none of the U.S. citizens wants to work on the fields and prefer to be unemployed? Why they start to say that Mexicans are bad people and take out their

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