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To: MSI who wrote (14277)	10/29/2003 2:24:29 PM
From: Neeka	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 793623

International "cheap" labor is changing the American work force. Young people I know (friends of my 20 something sons) are starting to take jobs as opposed to being picky and not accepting job offers they may have received six months ago. I remember one friend in particular relating the sob story about how bad the economy was and that her 25 year old daughter "just couldn't find a job" even though I was seeing a lot of help wanted signs posted in store windows. When I suggested her daughter put in applications at these businesses her reply was; Oh Susie won't work weekends so she wouldn't consider working there. She recently got a job at one of those businesses.......and yes, she has to work weekends. She's glad to be making $8.60 an hour, but I sense you might consider these "slave wages?" It's time to drop the convenient corporate lie that Americans won't take work. Any job you name will find legal workers to take it. Just maybe not at slave wages. M