Posted on 07/04/2007 2:28:33 AM PDT by MrPiper
I think this says it all. This is snipped from an article relating to the worker shortage in wheat fields. It should say: Americans refuse to be slave labor!
"Work starts once the morning dew has dried and continues for 16 hours until night moisture makes the wheat too wet. A harvester must be able to work continually while making quick repairs to keep a $300,000 combine in motion.
For that, a worker bunks with crewmates in a mobile trailer for free while seeing the U.S. heartland on net pay of about $1,800 per month. The high-quality, low-cost labor ``keeps costs down and keeps the producer profitable, which keeps the U.S. competitive in the world market.
I don't know who is running the combines now, but in those days, college students considered working the wheat harvest to be a good summer job. Given the chance, I believe that would still be true. Imagine--Americans doing the job illegals shouldn't do.
There was probably a headline once that read U.S. Cotten Farmers Face Grim Harvests as Slavery Ends. The farmers were then forced to use mechanical harvesting. Through the mother of invention and the application of technology their productivity went up and the price of cotton went down.
There were some ambitious internet projects to put very old daily newspapers online. I wonder what happened? The cost of the intellectual property is nothing. I bet it turned out the old newspapers were too politically incorrect for today's standards, and have been effectively banned by leftist political forces. It's too bad, history repeats itself over and over.
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