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The unemployed in socialist countries have all kinds of government programs, including health care, to fall back on, America doesn't. Rather high unemployment is one of expected negative effects of socialism.
The current high unemployment in America is not due to some ordinary economic cycle, but to our lousy trade policies and the new offshoring and outsourcing trends.

And how would one correct our trade policy without cutting our wrists? Lousy trade policy or quite possibly the best deal to ensure the collective security of ourselves and ungrateful allies. The correction in Oil will be the saving factor. The raw deal from OPEC and 9/11, coupled with the France/German/Russian pressure has had a profound affect; yet, today Bush is ready to address an UN body that knows it failed in its gambit to neuter the US militarily through economic suversion. We have weathered the storm caused by many factors competing in concert to harm us but have prevailed. Trust in Republican policy over the long run; it has never failed us, nor that of military-industrial-complex - yes, we have been through a difficult period but those with us will do better than those against us.