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Article #2241Re: Illegal aliens demand more welfare
From: Fathom
Date: Tue, 16 May 2000 00:00
Date: Tue, 16 May 2000 00:00
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> Actually, various machines to pick virtually any crop are patented > and in prototype. The production of those machines is being delayed > by the unwillingness of growers to make captial investment which > is more costly than hiring cheap labor. Grapes, by the way, > can be picked by machine and often are. Douglas, Actually I had in mind the "mechanized cotton picker", which did not become prevalent in the South until someone realized that a LOT of black people moved north and there was no one left to pick cotton. So I guess, since we have a WHOLE country to the south with eager hungry laborers we won't see to many "picking" machines? Fathom
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 106ed4,e212805b58e2e4f6 X-Google-Attributes: gid106ed4,public X-Google-Thread: 104eff,e212805b58e2e4f6 X-Google-Attributes: gid104eff,public X-Google-Thread: fc3d7,e212805b58e2e4f6 X-Google-Attributes: gidfc3d7,public X-Google-Thread: 107d03,e212805b58e2e4f6 X-Google-Attributes: gid107d03,public From: "Fathom" <g2ene1@swbell.net> Subject: Re: Illegal aliens demand more welfare Date: 2000/05/16 Message-ID: <4rmU4.569$273.245573@nnrp3.sbc.net> X-Deja-AN: 624323136 References: <8fo7k7$bvm$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <8fof6p$8tmuo$3@rn.area.com> <00603d5d.be3ba230@usw-ex0105-034.remarq.com> <Dd_T4.651$ov3.1928@news.swbell.net> <8fqbcl$8vqhm$1@rn.area.com> <8fs7gf$hvp$1@nntp9.atl.mindspring.net> X-Priority: 3 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2615.200 X-Complaints-To: abuseswbell.net X-Trace: nnrp3.sbc.net 958526272 64.216.84.5 (Tue, 16 May 2000 20:17:52 CDT) Organization: SBC Internet Services X-MSMail-Priority: Normal NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 16 May 2000 20:17:52 CDT Newsgroups: la.general,alt.politics.immigration,ca.general,ca.politics