I think the unemployment numbers have been falsified for a lot longer than eight years. I was a young man in the sixties when the unemployment rate was officially slightly HIGHER than what they claim now. Anyone who did NOT want a job had to hide. People with well paid full time jobs often had a part time job as well. It bore absolutely no resemblance to the current situation. If we got to that point now they would have to report the unemployment rate as MINUS ten or more percent.
I only wish I had had the maturity to take full advantage of the opportunity that was everywhere then.
Youth is wasted on the young.