Posted on 06/07/2007 11:02:08 PM PDT by bd476
It's easier to blackmail/cheat the illegal.
My point is that there is a demand for low tech hard labor jobs, and it is because our economy is as strong as it is.My beef isn’t against the illegal workers, it is against the freeloader gang members and their ilk. If more Americans would get off their unemployed wellfare asses and work for a living it would be much better but our gubmint enables the welfare roles.
Blackmail does take place among the undocumented. Anywhere you have an underworld, you have abuse. Few are going to risk outing themselves to get the EEOC interested.
Well, now that the Amnesty Bill is dead we'll probably be seeing far fewer of these stories. There will be a few more as the pending investigations are flushed out of the pipeline, but the shutdown of enforcement - as happened in the early part of this decade - will re-commence.
> My point is that there is a demand for low tech hard labor jobs
Just think how much more automation would be required. American technologies would be unrivaled.
No workman’s comp. No SSI. No liability. No benefits of any kind.
You’d be shocked at how much illegals make. They’re NOT working for less than minimum wage as is purported by our illustrious congress.
Automation does not dig ditches, collect garbage, fit pipe,build houses or hundreds of other jobs.Service jobs can only be done with a human touch, machines can not think.My industry is begging for qualified workers, the pay is great, it is too easy to live on the gubmint teat for some.
That is my point, the Great Society has led the American people to the trough insted of the spicket.
Robots could conceivably dig ditches and collect garbage.
Enough of a difference to make it worthwhile for the third world to infiltrate en masse while remaining third world. I wonder how many really wanted the amnesty anyhow.
When I said dig ditches or collect garbage I was refering to the backhoe operator and the garbage truck driver.
I could see an automated backhoe that would require nothing more than to be brought to the site and programmed with the size and location of the ditch or hole to be dug and the place to put the excavated material. The backhoe would do the rest. As a bonus it might be able to detect buried obstacles through appropriate sensors, and stop and alert the humans commanding it before doing something like cutting through a utility line.
Automated driving on a road peopled with human drivers is probably a ways off due to liability issues, but I could also see a robot that could identify rubbish and trash cans, pick them up, and put them or their contents in the truck whenever the truck stopped.
Can your automated robot bachoe operator see red concrete???
This is a similar issue to the robots now being developed under NASA auspices for excavation in places like the moon or Mars. Sure it would be able to, and its “eyes” don’t have to be limited to two at a certain height from the driver’s seat.
You evidently don’t know what red concrete means.
Assuming you mean cement encasing an electric utility run. Such a thing would be sensed as an obstacle.
What I don’t like about this is the government does everything possible to allow illegals to come in and then they punish businesses.
Powder coating is a high-volume low margin business, driven by the automakers. He was probably trying to keep work from going to China. Having said that, fine(and prison)may well be appropriate. The law is the law.
All fine and good but we don’t see much of this. You might see a handful of very well publicized cases like this nationally a month to try to placate the natives but the vast majority of businesses that employ illegals are doing so without penalty or scrutiny. It’ll take more than a few token charges to satisfy me that the feds take this issue seriously.
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