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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (6844)	5/30/2006 6:24:32 AM
From: elmatador	Respond to of 220197

labour vs human brainpower. When economy tended to innovation, brain power got the upper hand. Now economy is tending to materials, brain power certainly will keep the upper hand. But the beauty of it is that instead of paying the less endowed with brain power to do nothing, (like social democracies do in Europe) we can employ them gainfully as mankind have done for the millenia. It's only for a brief period of time (1950 - 2006) that work went out of fashion. Unless you have anything against working. I know it went a bit out of fashion but in certain places hasn't. Read again this because you've missed: Message 22475067 Outside her office one recent afternoon she encounters Bennie Gray, who says he earns about $60,000 a year detailing cars — a different kind of work, but also done in the hot sun. Gray, a thickly muscled African American, acknowledges that on an hourly basis, he might make more working for Smallwood, but can't imagine it. "I'm not going to lie," says Gray, 48. "I don't want to work that hard. My ancestors had to work in the fields. My mom still talks about the splinters and sores." Smallwood's employees have their own theories about the shortage of workers. "They don't know what the wages are, and they're scared to get their hands dirty," says Marco Camberos. He's running one side of a two-person auger that will be used to dig about 7,000 one-foot holes along a mile of median in Laguna Nigel. The team is planting evergreen shrubs. Camberos is making $18 an hour as a trainee. At 26, he has a bachelor's degree in CHEMISTRY from UC Riverside and plans to open his own landscaping business. "This is the means to an end," he says. Telling Americans there are jobs they won't do isn't necessarily a way to endear yourself to them. Addressing a group of union leaders in Washington last month, Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) said the members of his audience wouldn't pick lettuce even for $50 an hour. Leave agribusiness to the Brazilians they want that money! Leave industry to the Chinese they want that money!!