I have to disagree. At least around here anyways. I have TRIED to get jobs stripping tobacco, and some other "Farm related jobs". I was told "Sorry we have our farm workers already."(They were all "Mexican") Same thing with working Hay, and many other such jobs on or around the farm. I know of about 4 or 5 farmers that WILL NOT use anyone BUT "Mexicans".... even though the pay is the same. So it's not JUST that Americans won't do the jobs. It's that some won't hire anyone but "Mexicans". The people that have these jobs already have their mind set on WHO they are going to hire. I even tried working Cheaper than them...still same answer. Hard to get the job, when the people with the job won't let you have the job. Like Dimebag333 said I USED to do these same jobs when I was a kid. Today a kid couldn't get these jobs even if they wanted to....which sadly it seems most don't want to. Personally I wish the fine for each "Illegal alien" employed was $1,000,000 for the first offense mandatory. 5X that for the second, 25X that for the third, 625X that for each subsequent offense. Illegals would be unable to find a job then, IF this were enforced. They would have to come over LEGALLY or not at all. You have to make it NOT pay to hire them, to stop this problem. JMO
As for Robots.... I wish they were illegal. The last factory job I had we had them, and they were supposed to "see" obstacles in their path. I was almost ran over not once, not twice, but three different times by these Robot forklifts that were used(They were slower moving than humans operating forklifts). They only worked properly in about half of the factory.(The factory management was told this when they only had a few, They then bought several more.) A Mechanical loader was tried on my line. I loaded twice as many pallets as the person using the lift apparatus. Not to mention that it sometimes dropped the load posing a hazard that you had to constantly be prepared for, that was NOT present when you had a human doing the same job, WITHOUT this apparatus. Yeah, some robotic applications are more efficient, like precision welds, and they have their place/use. However I think that industries that employ them when they are NOT better, are in a sense, cutting their own throats. How many robots buy their products? How many robots actually "Stimulate" the economy? Unless the business is making robotic parts the answer is none.
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