Obama: Too much debt could fuel double-dip recession

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Originally Posted by Cannon Shell

So you the unemployment rate really isnt that bad? Or are you trying to say that in times of 4% unemployment there are the same % of workers who dont find work after thier benefits run out as there is in times of 10% unemployment?

Geeshus, none of the freekin' above. I'm saying exactly what I said: that the employment rate has historically been calculated in a certain way, everybody knows what the number includes and what it doesn't, and to try and keep saying, "Yes, but" at this point, calculating it a different way at this point in time, simply to make it seem even larger, is silly.

It's large enough calculated the way it has always been, using it to compare historically with other periods of high unemployment, and everybody knows what it does and doesn't include in that context.