Aliens painted and carpeted my apartment The painter was a Russian who couldn't speak more than three words of English. The carpet guys were Latino, one spoke some American and the other not a word. Don't tell me that Americans don't want these jobs, it's just that in the area in which I reside the store signs are all in Russian there are so many of them, and I presume they are here legally. I guess I mean that an American painted at the lowest wage possible to pay anyone. If my landlord could have shipped my apartment over to China to have the work done by children making $1.50 per day he'd have done so.