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These are people who aren't looking for jobs or don't need them

What an arrogant, ignorant and despicable piece of bigotry. Are you aware how the BLS classifies a person as no longer 'unemployed' or in the work force? Prove your contention.

Those steel tariffs, by the way, cost many, many automotive jobs for each steel job they "saved." CATIC propaganda. Debunked 'BIG TIME'. They were even caught coaxing steel-using manufacturers to lie as to the impacts. And the prevailing US steel prices after the steel tariffs was despite all the screams from the importers lobby...was lower by substantial amounts than those we compete with. In other words, we still had the most competitive market. That should tell you something about the 'global market'. There isn't one. We are the only open market for all practical purposes.

What an arrogant, ignorant and despicable piece of bigotry.

Let's not make this unnecessarily tedious, so get off the high horse, ok?

People who remain "unemployed" for a very extended period of time are indeed dropped from the classification, it's true, but that's after several quarters of being unemployed--more than a year, I think. By then you have to think they either aren't looking in earnest and/or have found a way to get by without a job, meaning they don't "need" one. (Or maybe they've starved to death or they're in prison?) I was recently unemployed, started looking right before Sept. 11, 2001. To me, the four months out of work was an eternity, but even in the post-9/11 market I found something in less than a year.

As to "Sub-employment." If you have a Ph.D. and you're working at McDonalds, and you can't get out of that field after a time, then it's your own fault. You can't be "sub"-employed because all that education notwithstanding, you are clearly in the best job you can do.