I originally posted saying I was against LAME's being removed from pushbacks. Some posters have touched on the reason why.
LAME's have already proven their ' buy in' to the industry and their ability to take responsibility. Not everyone has arrived in adulthood with the ability to take responsibility, LAME's are more likely than your average Jo off the street to be experienced and practiced at it.
If you take your ramp staff and put them through the appropriate training that weeds out the ones that aren't that way inclined and then pay them commensurate with the responsibility that the job holds then I have no problem. But as Fed Sec said, then it wouldn't be economically advantageous anyway.