XPost: alt.home.repair, misc.immigration.usa, sac.politics   
   XPost: talk.politics.guns   
   From: esp@snet.n   
      
   On 1/29/2025 1:27 PM, Rudy Canoza wrote:   
      
   >>>   
   >> There are about 8 million people employed in construction.  If the 23%   
   >> is correct, that is 1.8 million.  Right now there are 6.9 million   
   >> unemployed.  Are 1/3 of them ready and able to start working in   
   >> construction?  What about the harvest?   
   >   
   > Get with the times, bub.  Nobody needs all those illegals to harvest   
   > produce.  More and more of it is automated to reduce the management   
   > aggravation and cost of transient immigrant presence.  The US averages   
   > around 2.5 million acres of vegetable produce alone every year.  You got   
   > any idea how long it takes to pick an acre and how many people it would   
   > take to do it by hand before the stuff rots in the ground?  Machines can   
   > do it better faster.   
   >   
   > We don't need people to pick corn, soybeans or wheat, combines do it.   
   >   
   > We can harvest oranges, apples, plums, cranberries and nuts etc., faster   
   > and more efficiently than humans using automated machines.   
      
   Crops that generally cannot be machine harvested include most delicate   
   fruits and vegetables like strawberries, raspberries, grapes,   
   artichokes, lettuce, spinach, kale, peppers, kiwis, and many types of   
   berries, as they are easily damaged and require careful hand-picking to   
   maintain quality; some specialty crops like saffron and vanilla also   
   often rely on manual harvesting   
   >   
   > We need mechanics, machinists and manufacturing jobs.   
      
   The billionaire CEOs sent those jobs to China so they could get a big   
   bonus.   
      
   >   
   >> Nice to always talk about job creation, but we don't have enough   
   >> people to do everything needing doing.   
   >   
   > We have plenty of people to do the work.  The problem is they are too   
   > damned lazy, stupid, stoned, or think they are too good to do it.  The   
   > only skills large city kids have exiting high school are snottiness,   
   > ebike riding and smart phone operation.  They can't even follow simple   
   > directions to complete a job application without blanks or misspellings   
   > using a smart phone. Ask one to do some simple math problems or count   
   > change without using a damned smartphone.  They can't do it.   
      
   There are 8.3 million working illegals.  We have 6.9 million unemployed.   
   What is your plan to come up with the gap?   
      
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