Do you think the shortage of summer jobs might have anything to do with, I dunno, four dollar gas and the mortgage loan crisis? I took delivery yesterday of a load of supplies for my dad and right at the bottom is the new "fuel surcharge." People are taking "staycations" and saving every penny they have. We just had the worst June since 1930 and that's WITH the stimulus checks out there (which checks are an advance, and not free money as everyone wants to pretend). A whole new crop of adjustable-rate mortgages are about to reset and we haven't seen the bottom of this financial mess. I really can't blame the chick making minimum wage (35 hours a week with no benefits) at the store for this. As Chris Rock says, "If your boss is paying you minimum wage, it means, if he could pay you less, he would."