...And now I have a good railroad job. Eliminating labor is a common theme, regardless of the industry. Check out the GPS controlled harvesting equipment that is being devloped for Florida's citrus growers in order to compete with Brazil. There's "cheap" farm labor going bye-bye!

It's not a simple task of verifying someone's immigration status, due to Fedral law, and multi-agency incompatabilty with databases. And what's the signifigance, anyway? Thieves come in all colors shapes and nationalities.

And if you're paying someone $50 a day to clean up horseshit, consider yourself lucky. All the laborers I've ever used flipping houses got the market rate: $100 for a full day's SUPERVISED labor.

And, I suppose this thread is on the outer limits of railroad related discussion, but honestly, the railroads are ALSO interested in reducing labor...Think three sets of DPU's on a 12,000 foot train.