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Thank you for the post. I started later than usual today and yours is the first posting which nears the truth: Either we have been outright lied to on our employment statistics or there are many, many jobs which Americans will not do, period. I doubt it's the former because of other manifold stats which correlate with full employment.

Why? I suspect the urban poor (gone through the 12th grade but functionally illiterate) including many 18-35 year old males who are in prison or have trouble gaining legitimate employment because of having a prison record or who just won't work account for millions of potential replacements for illegal immigrant workers. Further our society is the first in history to now have an ownership and wealth transition phenomenon giving millions of Americans, well under retirement age, the option of not having to work to live and live very well. It is not uncommon to have neighbors in middle income and above communities who have school age children and whose main source of income are trust funds on one or both sides. Thus those on the food chain are often upgraded not on merit but on a 'space available' basis. And the low wage jobs are hard to fill absent a new source of bodies.

Thank you. Someone has to speak the truth and question those that twist it with jingoistic cliches. There are jobs that need filling and there are precious few people do those jobs. For some to admit that would destroy their entire argument so they stubbornly dismiss that issue.

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