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To: James H. Barnes who wrote (167048)	6/25/2002 4:06:03 PM
From: semiconeng	Respond to of 186894

So, how much would it cost? More than it does now. Shouldn't matter. Either you stand by your opinions, or you don't. What, you're only in favor of it, if the additional cost is low enough to meet your parameters? Semi

To: James H. Barnes who wrote (167048)	6/26/2002 3:03:35 AM
From: Amy J	Respond to of 186894

Hi James, RE: "So, how much would it cost? " Someplace on El Camino in Silicon Valley, there's a place where Americans hire illegal immigrants, according to a SJMN article a few years ago. The cost differential is reportedly twice as much between legal and illegal immigrant for landscaping, with legal immigrants earning minimum wage and illegal immigrants earning half of minimum wage. During the winter holiday, the article reported that volunteers deliver food and cookies to this area. The strawberry picking industry is notorious for hiring illegal immigrants. Semi's point is accurate. Most American's would probably complain if their food prices increased by nearly a factor of two. RE: "All this cheap, illegal labor is causing the market to not increase efficiency and innovation." That's a really good point. Why don't they have automatic strawberry pickers? i.e. grow strawberry plants in the ground but with a neighboring conveyer belt, and have a reasonably wide wire that spirals around the plant and so as it grows and blooms, just have a device that's on the wire snip strawberries into a bucket that's placed below the plant on a conveyer belt. Maybe silicon could be in a device attached to the wire that detects when the strawberry is ripe. Who knows what the code would look like, but that's got to be a fun and creative science project to try. Some student should try it. Regards, Amy J