[A. Pole]

The United States' Unemployment rate is lower than almost any other nation.

Unemployment rate does not measure the real joblessness. Many people are not counted, others are counted as employed if they do part time temporary odd jobs, while trying to get the real job back. There are lies, bigger lies and statistics.

Also other countries count unemployment differently. Besides, your way of reasoning is - "in other countries like in Liberia or Chad people starve and get chopped into pieces so consider yourself being in the paradise", or "why are complaining about your chest pains? - the guy next to you has sarcoma!"

[BushCountry]

Unemployment rate does not measure the real joblessness. Many people are not counted, others are counted as employed if they do part time temporary odd jobs, while trying to get the real job back. Our percentage of adults working in this far greater than most countries.

[YankeeReb]

Unemployment rate does not measure the real joblessness. Many people are not counted, others are counted as employed if they do part time temporary odd jobs, while trying to get the real job back. There are lies, bigger lies and statistics.

Thank God someone else understands this, whenever I mention it to anyone I'm met with blank stares. The former EE who's forced to take a job at radio shack for $10.00/hr is not counted as unemployed, nor is the person who's unemployment ran out. You can't grow an economy with large segments of the work force doing temp jobs with no security and no benifits.