Believe jobs will come back at least in Financial Industry soon

At the local 7-11 daily the lines are growing for those waiting for day to day work. Shoot after being laid off for a year I sometimes want to stand there for work. My question is with seeing so many people standing there and not just immigrants anymore, getting paid under the table daily- how is this "no tax" approach stimulating the economy?

I just read a story on the internet (MSN News) The AP is reporting that production is down.
(Insert from the AP Report says: "Factories and mines are increasingly idle, as the total industrial capacity utilization rate fell to 69.3 percent from 70.3 percent, the lowest on records dating to 1967, the Fed said.")
I live near an interstate and am hoping someone can tell me what is inside of the thousands of 18-wheeler's and big rigs traveling up and down that highway? I can't help wondering if production is so down would I not be seeing less big rigs on the highway?

Why is it that the government, media, Wall St- heck everyone- is acting so surprised that retail took a substantial drop in sales? That shouldn't have come to any surprise to anyone. People are being laid off on a daily basis- there are those who have been laid off for months- many exhausting their benefits who can't just go out and splurge. Watching the news yesterday and today they talk like it is such a big surprise. It wasn't to me. The answer is to get people working again. The biggest problem is going to be instilling job security in millions of Americans.