The full employment numbers are what we should be looking at and they're not good.
You're absolutely right. The scariest part: It is impossible to poll many of the unemployed who are no longer seeking work because they're without food and electricity, let alone a phone to be reached at. Many of them will be too desperate trying to survive another day to actually go out to the polls on Election Day.
They need and want a source of income, any kind of job, so they can provide for themselves. The vast majority of them do not want handouts, nor do they see their troubles as the results of the "haves" keeping them oppressed. They do not think the world owes them a living. They simply want another opportunity, but most companies cannot afford to give that opportunity because of the toxic environment. It's a bad environment for everybody; it's just worse for some than others (much, much worse in the case of some). It is still very much a recessionary environment in that respect.
We need to turn this economy around or the suffering will continue to get worse. It's horrible. The president and his surrogates talking about gay marriage and contraception isn't helping these people find a job. There is no hope for these people. This is not the change they believed in.
