[Tony Niar Brain]

A big problem _I_ think that this country has besides unemployment is the underemployment problem. It seems to me that there are lots of people with college degrees (useful ones, not philosophy) or whatnot who are waiting tables when they should be on a computer or in a lab. I worry about that, and how these BLS reports really seem to be ignoring it.

[Porterville]

I can't get an interview; I'm young with several useful degrees... I can't get an interview because unions and administrative nepitism protect the sweet jobs. I guess I could always be a prison guard... they are always stocking the inventory in the jails so tax monies can be funneled to peripheral communities.... damn I hate being broke.

[A. Pole]

A big problem _I_ think that this country has besides unemployment is the underemployment problem. It seems to me that there are lots of people with college degrees (useful ones, not philosophy) or whatnot who are waiting tables when they should be on a computer or in a lab.

Free traders would answer that those guys are fully employed and that it is the law of comparative advantage at work - it is better if they are waiting tables.