[Tonytitan]

...a friend down in south Idaho that is a highly trained software engineer that has been out of work for two years. If the unemployment rate is really “3.8 percent”, why can’t he find a decent job?

If he's really that good he can get hired by a defense contractor and work remotely from the house. How hard is he really looking?

[FLT-bird]

See my comments about how companies view anybody out of a job for a year or more as a leper. Maybe in normal times I could sort of see it but given the awful Obama economy, I’d look at that as an economy issue rather than a “him” issue.