Today’s economic world is filled with uncertainty. Fuel and food prices are skyrocketing, businesses continue to desert upstate New York, and taxes continue their unending increases. These financial times in the greater Oswego community are challenging.

If the chronic lament of poverty moaned by the vast majority of America’s farmers would cease, and they began paying a fair wage equitable to the backbreaking work associated with farm labor, they would find an adequate number of Americans willing to fill their employment needs, thus eliminating 50 percent of the jobs that bring illegals streaming across the border