A Nation of Hamburger Flippers

National Review Online ^ | August 18, 2003 | Bruce Bartlett

[dr_who_2]

The obvious solution is to reduce the productivity of the U.S. manufacturing sector by destroying machines, killing skilled, educated workers everywhere, and getting rid of competition.

[lelio]

Already posted and it was posted again before that. People keep on changing the title.

[Cyber Liberty]

That nasty steam engine has got to go. Power from the people ('s arms and legs).

[Cyber Liberty]

Talk to the source websites' editors. This is a rare case where doing a title search is useless, I guess....

[dr_who_2]

That's not fair. The author of this article has been cross-posting on us. The swine.

[snopercod]

Actually, the machines are being physically shipped to Mexico and China (like the Coats American thread-making machines in the town where I live). The highly skilled workers are just being left to compete with the uneducated illegal aliens for the menial service jobs.

[MonroeDNA]

Impossible!

We need government interference! We are not good enough! We can't compete!

It is not fair!!!

We whine like school children!

Help us!!!

[dr_who_2]

I apologize for leaving off the question mark in the NRO version of the title. Was hoping to annoy some habitual anti-globalism whiners.

[MonroeDNA]

We must tarrif anyone who sells steel below what we can make it for.

This is a matter of union security!

[JoeSchem]

We have two economic futures before us. In one, we automate and computerize everything, and all human beings are free to stop working, spend more time with their children, and pursue hobbies. In the other future, we work like slaves at mind-numbing, repetitive jobs inside cavernous factories.

Guess which future the Democratic Party supports?

[dr_who_2]

Well, if those uneducated jacklegs in Mexico mess up those machines, the owners of those machines get what's coming to them. Ha-rumph!

[longtermmemmory]

alas even the hamburger flippers will be automated. In orlando the McDonalds has an automated French fry machine. Potatoes go in one end and McDonalds french fries come out the other.

Can Automated Big Mac makers be far behind. Food production untouched by human hands.


...That is untill friday, then its Soylent Green day. :-)

[MonroeDNA]

It is only fair that longshoremen union folks in the LA docks make an average of $120,000 per year. It is only fair that janitors in government make $100,000 a year.

(maybe the IT whiners should get a mop).

[dr_who_2]

However, the problem here isn't just the Democrats.

[Bluntpoint]

Flipping hamburgers is not so bad. The job comes with nice benefits like free uniforms!

[lelio]

Someone should email NRO the following email

From: FreeRepublic Admin Moderator
Subject: Please keep original titles
Body: cut it out

[Dog Gone]

Back to the good ol' days of buggies! We've put thousands of stable workers out of a job.

[hole_n_one]

[anniegetyourgun]

And there's no doubt this analysis will do just that.

[Bluntpoint]

And company cars!