[TheSpottedOwl]

Is the unemployment numbers so low right now because we have a ton of people that are called up in the national gaurd and reserves and in Iraq and people were hired to take their place in the private sector.

I think that could be an important contributing factor. This has been my theory for the last 20 yrs or so: once you are done with collecting unemployment, you are off the unemployment rolls. Voila! One less person unemployed.

I do not want to hear the hornswaggle about these figures being derived from the unemployment office conducting phone surveys. No one is contacted after benefits run out, unless it's a post card letting you know that there is a training program free of charge opening up in your area.

Gray area employment isn't just for illegals anymore...

[chris1]

Bush could really go jump in the river on this. He is wrong and making matters much worse. Shame shame shame.