[Dat Mon]

"You've never been in a machine shop have you?"

My company subcontracts to local CNC machine shops all the time. I primarily use a small shop I know where the owner is a small businessman I can trust for quality and delivery.

Whats your point? What am I missing here?

[bayourod]

Even the most sophisticated equipment costing hundreds of thousands of dollars requires an operator to keep it supplied with raw material, keep the tools lubricated, remove the shavings etc... It's not the type job American kids dream of growing up to do.

Ever see the people operating heavy road building equipment? In Texas they are almost all Hispanics. Just because someone is operating a state of the art million dollar piece of equipment doesn't mean it's a high status job.