I feel that the amercian public has lost it's work ethic because of my own personal experience. When I built my house, I advertized for a worker to dig a trench for 25$ an hour (this was 15 years ago) I couldn't get anyone to do it... so me, my best friend, and my 60 year old mother did it. A 60 year old woman and two queens is what it took to do a job that these tough straight men wouldn't do. And just in everyday life.... I see people not willing to "lower themselves" and get their hands dirty, too lazy to do something by hand, if they can't use machinery to accomplish a task, they don't want to do it. Besides the cheaper wages... that's why Mexicans get hired for alot of stuff, THEIR work ethic is still intact. I come from farmers.... so I come from a long line of people with a work ethic. But there are so many nowadays who don't want to get off their butts. And as far as job growth, when an economy recovers... all past indicators show that job growth is the LAST to respond. Just give it time. I heard talk radio pundits wondering where the recovery was just 3 MONTHS after he took office. Alot of it IS thinly vieled racism, and you won't convince me otherwise. The fact reamins that all of the blame for the illegal immigration problem does NOT lie with the government, after all... the government is not the one hiring these people. Instead, we have conservatives across the country posturing and puffing up their chest, wanting to spend BILLIONS of taxpayer dollars to build a wall, that would be completely uneccesary. If when people came over the border.... they would find NO WORK, and not even be able to get their foot in the door, then your problem would be SOLVED. These same conservatives and right wing talk radio hosts need to channel their energy into INVESTIGATING and EXPOSING companies who do this illegal hiring, and publicize, shame, and organize boycotts against them. But as usual, they sit behind their microphones and bump their gums instad of actually doing anything about it.