It's so unfortunate, but you nailed it on the head with both, cheap labor and graft. I think we are making progress on the graft out of the gov. Although, both of those issues could fall under the graft. I think shovel ready could work with plenty of resources for housing and training (on the job and making money) if we took the illegal employment market. We can dream. They could have a merit based employment program with future citizenship to deal with the illegals. But the gov would have to also go after the companies that are abusing low wage labor.