[stevecmd]

All those lay off we see reported..... 10 here 30 there...65 somewhere else...........don’t seem to be adding up to much.

[concerned about politics]

Urbansurvival.....
"What's not in any of this is the interlocking political decisions which can artificially reduce the unemployment rate by simply forgetting about real people without work and counting only those who are still getting unemployment bennies, just as an example. Or, in terms of deflation, failing to come to terms with what a 17.9% inflation rate at the M1 money supply level is really telling us."