One begs to differ, it's the corporations that are hurting the economy. Now that all loyalty to employees, pensions, decent benefits, and worst of all the ability to trust that a corporation will even keep its promises to the people who have given it their lives is gone, what would make a person, especially a smart young person, want to sign on? Fear of poverty just won't do it. Sorry to break this to you, but carrots work better than sticks, especially sticks poked into workers' eyes! Today's educated young people are simply not going to be taken in by corporate and employer happy talk. Used to be a move prompted by job seeking resulted in a better situation in the eyes of the employer. Now, an employee that moves across the country can barely get compensated for the cost of the move, and there is no corporate loyalty whatsoever garnered. My brother, now a top manager with one of the 3 largest communications companies in the world moved from Atlanta to Los Angeles to take a job from the world's #2 auto maker, to lead a major development facility. Five months later they decided to close the facility, returning it to Japan. They gave zero notice. They demanded the money they paid for his move and bonus back, since he had "failed to reach his 6 month milestone", and left him in California drawing $800 per month unemployment with two children and a $3,400 house payment... After several years of litigation, initiated by the corporation, my brother was finally made whole, and compensated for the shabby treatment. The treatment of non-upper-management employees is so much worse. I learned to my horror, that this is typical in today's work environment. I've always been a self-employed employer of others. This raw corporatism hurts America and all Americans. No unions, no loyalty, inadequate healthcare, pitiful childcare, and worst of all viewing employees as "expendibles" and not human beings. Why should any smart kid get off the couch, move away from those they love, their support structure and friends, at their own expense, to be totally at the mercy of an entity that would as soon see them dead in the gutter as in a cubicle working 80 hours a week for less than a 1970's minimum wage?? (One must make $16.85 per hour to equal $2.35 an hour in 1970) What goes around comes around, and this de-regulated, social Darwinist, cannibalistic global capitalism has sown the wind and is reaping the whirlwind. How do you think these kids are going to vote? The 18% that buys the propaganda of the 1% don't have the votes to stop what is about to happen, and these corporations need to understand they are reaping what they have sown by treating highly educated and skilled workers as expendable wage slaves, unworthy of the benefits and respect considered a baseline for a civil and ethical business and social environment. This is just not the kind of society most folks want to live in, Americans care about each other, even people they do not personally know. No amount of consumerism and "me-ism", and the advertising and aggrandising of the same, will change who we are - and the change is a-comin'. And not a second too soon...