[jellybean]

I work as a manager in a restaurant, so please don't lecture me about entry level jobs, college kids paying their way through... I'm very familiar with those scenarios. I work with these kids everyday. They're great kids!

You're the one who seems to consider it slave labor for an employer to hire people, pay them a fair wage and give them a chance to improve their lives. To your way of thinking, working in a restaurant or hotel is equivalent to being a slave.

[FITZ]

I consider it near-slave labor when someone figures people from the third world must be brought in because they will work for less wages than an American would and don't deserve the labor laws etc that Americans have. We don't need this kind of classist society --- I saw a lot of that in Mexico ---- where there is almost no middle class --- a lot of elitist attitudes about certain jobs. A white kid in Mexico wait tables?????? Unheard of.

[FITZ]

Anyhow I'm the one that thinks these jobs are good entry level jobs for American middle class types ---- apparently some believe that the middle class should never have to do these jobs. I would eliminate welfare and government financial aid to college --- you'd see plenty of available workers then.