[Destro]

We have many unemployed - the unemployment figures are for those looking for work but can't find it. Many have fallen from the job seeking ranks and are no longer counted. These are what used to be two income households trying to make by with one income (when just a generation ago one income was all that was needed now two incomes are required to be in the shrinking middle class) or they take low paying jobs off the books.

Education has zero to do with it since when we were an industrial giant of a nation all one needed was a 6th grade education - if that.

There is just so much education that can go around - not everyone can earn a masters. What will we do wwith those that just want to get a job after high school and start a family? Tough luck? MBA's need only apply?

As we increase immigration of unskilled uneducated workers who have no jobs beyond serf like ones?

Sure - lower taxes all you want - but when a manufaturer can pay a Chinaman pennies vs an American wage the tex rate could be zero and the jobs would still flee.

[searchandrecovery]

Well, I actually kind of agree with you. The free trade agreements seem to uniformly screw over the us worker. But the bigger picture seems to me to be "legislation without representation". Who the f knows who these mo's are? Not me. Who knows what corporate agenda they be following? Not me. Too late for Kerry this time (perhaps his major bluner), but hopefully will resonate with the unemployed.