In a free market, you will have all the field workers you'll ever need, IF you offer the compensation that the market demands.
What the commies here at FR want is cheap, subsidized labor. They talk free market all day when it comes to the large number of engineers and programmers all competing and pushing down wages, but when it comes to the lack of competeting field workers, they wan't the government to provide welfare via looking the other way while they import illegal serfs, and now with this amnesty proposal.
If you don't have enough LEGAL people beating down the door to work for you, then you have to PAY more for that labor resource.
Supply and demand cuts both ways.
How true...we Americans always seem to want it both ways. As a white collar engineer, I am hoping that the gov. somehow protects my job and status from outsourcing in the world, but somehow I can find a spot to argue for the rights of an immigrant worker who longs to have the chance to work and live in America. Perhaps I should go and work in the fields now and forget that white collar job, house, car, boat, two cats in the yard....life use to be so hard...now every thing is easy because of you.
CW