Doug Kanter wrote:
"George E. Cawthon" wrote in message
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Doug Kanter wrote:

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I for one would
pay a little more money to support our own workforce.



But, who would get this extra money if we kicked all illegals out of the
country? Have you ever seen the backbreaking work involved in harvesting
certain crops? Would you want your kids to do that kind of work?

Ah, then explain the cotton gin! I wonder how many people went around
screaming that the country would come to a halt if there weren't any
slaves to pick cotton.

The simple fact is that ingenuity would probably find a solution cheaper
than the current back breaking stoop labor if illegals were not available.
I think one could make a tight argument that illegals are inhibiting
progress.


Some crops cannot be harvested by machines. If they could be, the machines
would exist. Many cashiers can't get a container of strawberries into a
grocery bag without ****ing them up. No machine will harvest them safely, at
least not until robotics are much further along. A long list of other crops
are also too delicate for anything but human handling.


Just about every crop that is now harvested by
machine was said to be unharvestable except by
hand. In some cases, tomatoes and others, the
crops were changed so that they could be harvested
by machine. Mostly it appears that the solution
is just imagination and inventiveness.

I'm not worried, most of the strawberries
available are inedible anyway.