Why are 80% of the jobs hiring now for SALES?

How many of you actually get to do something you love every day and get paid for it? That must be nice, huh?
How many people have to get up ridiculously early to sit in freeway traffic for an hour to get somewhere and do the same mindless bs everyday while you wait for the weekend to come?

Statistically, I'm pretty confident more people fall into the latter category. I read an ad on craigslist the other day that said "We all have bills to pay and mouths to feed, so what are you waiting for?". I lol'd. The ad was for a door-to-door sales position for some up-and-coming company. From a standpoint of a business owner pushing fresh marketing ideas I can respect that, but from someone looking for employment you just kinda have to sit back and laugh. Does anyone WANT to go door to door and get doors slammed in their face or told to fuck off repeatedly?
Does anyone wanna stand in the back of a restaraunt with piles of dishes around them getting soaked in hot water and wet food for hours while the rest of the staff looks down upon them?
Does anyone want to try their best to sell $2,000 vacuums or ridiculously over-priced kitchen knives for barely any kind of compensation?

Fuck no.

I cant even justify applying for 80% of the shit I see on craigslist or careerbuilder or monster or what have you. The bulk of it is sales positions for companies no one's heard of. Let's be honest, if we're in a recession and people are getting laid off left and right, clinging to every nickle they get their hands on, and losing sleep trying to figure out how to pay the mortgage, then what in the hot gay fuck makes people think they're going to sell homes, cars, remodelling projects, etc. etc.
I've asked this question to some of the hiring managers I've interviewed with and the answer I most commonly get is, "Recession? What recession?".

Again, LOL.

I could see that answer coming from someone in a retail position, or selling cell phones. Obviously people still bought their families blackberrys for christmas, or bought gym memberships as part of a New Years resolution that'll never stick once they realize it takes EFFORT...

But come on, even the best of salesmen are starving right now. If you could sell $50k worth of unnecessary shit to someone on the verge of foreclosing and having their car repossessed then holy shit, you shouldn't be a salesman. You should be travelling the world teaching pushy, comission-chasing assholes how to actually be efficient at their job and make their company (and themselves) money.

So I have no point really, just good luck to all these hiring managers at no-name companies trying to find the salesman of the year to pull their company out of an economic slump.