and if you look at the recent obesity statistics, you will see that many americans have already started. do i get paid by the bean or the hour? by the hour. how many hours have i been working? about 12 minutes. please don t make me do this again. it is really, really hard. for one thing when picking beans you have to spend all day bending over. it turns out, i did not know this, most soil is at ground level. mr. colbert you can work on so many issues, why are you interested this issue? i like talking about people who don t have any power. and this seems like one of the least powerful people in the united states are migrant workers who come and do our work but don t have any rights as a result. yet we still invite them to come at the same time ask them to leave.