[Alberta's Child]

I think there’s a lot of truth to what you said there. Let’s leave truck drivers aside because the nature of that particular job and the business model for the industry makes it unique. Aside from that, I’d say we are seeing a “perfect storm” of three factors at work here:

1. Many unskilled Americans are either incapable of holding a job, or are getting paid more to stay unemployed than they’d get paid to work.

2. There aren’t enough trained workers to fill the skilled blue-collar jobs.

3. We have a bloated layer of mid-range professional/clerical/managerial types who probably make up a large portion of those who were laid off in the last year and haven’t been rehired. They remain unemployed simply because they won’t work in low-skill jobs in #1 and don’t have the skills to work in the jobs in #2.

[Laslo Fripp]

#4. Who wants to put on a face diaper and go to work for an entire shift like that?

Think about it.

[ConservativeMind]

Well said.