[Hugin]

In a lot of places it’s cheaper to hire 100 guys with shovels than to buy or rent heavy machinery, build a road and move it there, buy fuel and move it there, and run it.

[kabar]

Does that include payroll taxes, workmen's comp, etc. or are you talking about illegal aliens,

In any event, if you can do that it shows that there is a surplus of labor. If there was a shortage of labor, wages would be increasing, not decreasing.