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Pay minimum wage to hire someone clean up an office during work hours and you won’t find any takers since they are having more fun on welfare, food stamps, medicaid, obama phones, free tuition, xbox whatever.

"Pay minimum wage to hire someone clean up an office during work hours and you won’t find any takers since they are having more fun on welfare, food stamps, medicaid, obama phones, free tuition, xbox whatever."

The "jobs Americans won't do" urban legend is still alive and well, I see.

Post an ad up in the local paper (or on craigslist) in just about any major metro area, and I'll bet you get a minimum of a couple dozen responses from people ready to go to work tomorrow. I can tell you from hiring experience that your statement is a myth.

I advertised a job for 50-cents an hour over minimum wage back in 2007 when the economy was supposedly still "good", and got 20 calls a day for the next 3 days. I have friends who are still either hiring managers or own businesses and have recently hired. Some of them getting literally hundreds of applications for jobs paying that pay anywhere from $8-$12 an hour. I have another friend that manages a branch for a day labor company. He says he normally has 3 times the number of people he can put to work sitting in his lobby by 6:00 AM.

It's been a long, long time since this country had such a glut of people willing to work for peanuts.