Re: Illegal aliens demand more welfare

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From: Douglas Long
Date: Wed, 17 May 2000 00:00

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"Fathom" <g2ene1@swbell.net> wrote in message
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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

    Right.  And Americans will continue to subsidize the low
wages paid by growers by subsidizing the health, education,
and welfare benefits of illegals.  Your lettuce ends up costing
about five bucks a head.
>
>

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From: "Douglas Long" <dkl8321@mindspring.com>
Subject: Re: Illegal aliens demand more welfare
Date: 2000/05/17
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