In spite of record unemployment, many employers in the US have been making the claim for the past few years that, in fact, their lack of hiring is due not to their own unwillingness to hand out jobs like candy — no, it’s because we feeble employees just aren’t up to snuff!  Kevin Drum puts the lie to this particular line.  For anyone who has recently heard their boss utter the phrase “It’s a buyer’s market out there” when discussing the decision to let a competent employee go so that they might hire someone with more skills and training (but for the same wage as the last guy), well, it’s pretty satisfying to see this one shot down.