Wow this thread has two topics at once.

First JMT21 you talk about how the unemployment rate has remained constant for the last fifty years. I agree with you but the question I ask you is what is the quality of the jobs that people are getting. For example, you have a small town that has a group of mom and pop shops selling goods to the town, employing people with jobs that pay above minimum wage. Then you get a big company who comes in and opens up a lost cost super center who sells everthing for cheaper and that shuts the small businesses down. Now the unemployment rate has not changed but now the wage rate has gone down, so that now affects quality of life of people in the town and to top it all off the big business is now taking all of the revenue out of the city and lining share holders pockets. But gosh darn it unemployment stayed the same. And I know you are thinking "hey they are paying less though now" but think for one minute you save what a few dollars on useless things but you lose two dollars an hour in wage and the business owners are now poor like you.

Second thing is about the trade defecit. It is bad because with the endless cycle this country is in of soaring defecits and a soaring trade defecit, what do you thing is going to happen. If you look at the dollar it is going down which means now we have to pay more dollars to buy the same product from another nation. Just think oil.

So not only are we taking money away from the people with offering lower paying jobs but now it is costing more money to get the same stuff. But gosh darn it I have to agree out source all of those jobs so we can pay less for stupid useless ****.