[cksharks]

I guess you support 20 dol/hr for a min wage. I also guess you would like to pay $10 apiece for a tomato or cucumber. All the farm products in this country would cost a fortune. They tried it with paying stupid ass wages in the auto industry and look where that got them. Checked out the outsourcing of jobs lately. Almost all of them are because of unions and their rules and regulations. When you pay floor sweepers $22 per/hr to sweep and they have to sign with an X something is out of kilter. And by the way in kalif they will not even take $15 per/hr to do roofing.

Bush said it was right to go to war damn the polls. He is now saying it is right for the country damn the polls.I trust his judgement.

[Orangedog]

I guess you support 20 dol/hr for a min wage.

Hardly.

I also guess you would like to pay $10 apiece for a tomato or cucumber. All the farm products in this country would cost a fortune.

Now you're just being silly.

Checked out the outsourcing of jobs lately. Almost all of them are because of unions and their rules and regulations.

All those non-union engineers and programmers might have a hard time believing that.

Bush said it was right to go to war damn the polls. He is now saying it is right for the country damn the polls.I trust his judgement.

Trust Karl Rove all you want.

[lelio]

I also guess you would like to pay $10 apiece for a tomato or cucumber.

Did you read the article? The entire point of it is that if there's a scarcity then there's innovation:

But starting in the 1950s in Australia (where there was no large supply of foreign farm labor), farmers were compelled by circumstances to develop a laborsaving method called "dried-on-the-vine" (DOV) production.

You won't get $10 cukes because as soon as the price starts to go up then farms will either start to employ different methods (DOV in this case) or they'll get a more efficient machine.