Will Work for Food, as Long as the Work is Easy

Yet again, the U.S. continues to display the traits that have us sinking from world power to world pouter.  We can find plenty of energy to complain about the lack of jobs and poor economy, but we won't accept jobs unless they pay very well, offer regular 9-5 hours, and offer a comfortable working environment.  Check out this article from the Wall Street Journal regarding a meat factory struggling to find workers: Hot-Dog Maker, Lured for its Jobs, Now Can't Fill Them.  Our government has made well-intentioned efforts to offer unemployment benefits, debt relief help, and hundreds of other programs to aid the American worker, yet we workers do not seem willing to help ourselves.  We are becoming a culture dependent on the government to somehow meet our needs, and less and less of us value hard work to make a living.  Businesses need laborers to make their products in order to build equity, and I can no longer blame them for taking their jobs elsewhere when I read stories like this about American workers shunning these opportunities.