| Perhaps not a truly representative example, but I remember in Idaho seeing the Mexican immigrants working all day at the backbreaking job of hoeing and weeding the sugar-beet fields, with only a water wagon and porta-potty for comfort. I cannot for the life of me see the average American doing that labor. Perhaps if they weren't there, some enterprising person would invent a way to automate the entire process and provide the means for farmers to buy this invention without raising their prices too much. More likely we'd find a way to enable prisoner labor to do the job. But at the moment I see no candidates standing in line to replace the migrant farm workers. |