[Prokopton]

"Perhaps we could have a version of the Affirmative Action program that would require employers to publicly list job openings and Americans would be given first crack at them."

Let your job be one of the ones listed but at half the current pay. You might find that you have one of those jobs "Americans won't do".

[mountainfolk]

We do not set the price of labor. We have never asked any person to take less for a job they have agreed to do at their price. My husband and I have finished more than one job, such as finishing roofing when that YOUNG man took off half way thru and we did an excellent job and repaired his mistakes as well. Wages have only recently become the excuse for the Americans who will not work. Cut off welfare for able bodied workers and in a generation or so we may have a body of workers sufficient to fill this country's employment needs. As it is, with Mexicans working in the numbers they are, we still have around 5% unemployment.