I personally find it hard to believe that people can't find jobs. I guess its just because I'm not seeing it where I am at. So far this year we have hired about 30 people and still have reqs open (even though part of the company laid off a whole BUNCH of people).

One of the major problems seems to be that people really don't want to move to find work. One of my friends lives in Boca Raton and might be losing his job. I told him that we have openings here, but he just bought a house and doesn't want to have to sell it. Priorities I guess. My mother is a bio-environmental engineer (with 20+ years of experience in the Air Force). The only place she could find work doing that after retirement was in Sunnyvale, CA. She didn't go with it (at a salary of over $120k/year IIRC) and now works where she retired (Omaha) as a clerk in the courthouse. Like I said, priorities.

But yeah, spam sucks