Even if the job numbers weren't doctored, they provide a deceiving yardstick to
bygone times. When the government says not to worry, because unemployment is
only 9.8% and it was 25% in the 1930s, they neglect to remind you:

-State and local government jobs increased by 12.5 million since 1946, and every
one of those jobs created negates the value created by a private sector job to
the country's bottom line. The expansion of the federal government has been
even worse.

-There are 2 million people in jail that we support.

-There are 3 million people in uniform

-Unemployment numbers don't include real estate agents, independent contractors,
and consultants who aren't working, because technically they work for
themselves.

-Workers on unpaid furloughs aren't "unemployed"

-Neither are Part time workers

-A huge number of workers (unattached workers) have given up looking...