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To: tejek who wrote (172140)	7/21/2003 5:29:45 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1578006

To the person who is unemployed, whether the unemployment is the lowest its been in the past 5 recessions is moot........they still don't have a job and it hurts financially. The issue of comparing the unemployment rates under different administrations or at different points in the economic cycle, is a different issue from recognizing the fact that unemployment is hard for the unemployed. If I tried to say something stupid like "unemployment is fun and people without jobs enjoy their free time", then "tell that to the unemployed" would be a reasonable argument, but in the context of analyzing the unemployment rate compared to other times it isn't even an argument. It doesn't make any point. The fact that that unemployment hurts financially and sometimes in other ways is not in dispute, so pounding that issue in to the ground is just empty rhetoric. A year or two ago there were a lot of stories about people being killed by sharks. It turns out it was a fairly average year for such deaths with, as usual very few people killed by sharks in the US. If I tried to argue that we don't have to have the whole country up in arms about shark deaths because it was only an average year and because in a typical hour more people die in car accidents then are killed by sharks all year, and you said "tell that to the people who where eaten by sharks", and then complained that I didn't have compassion for the shark victims and their families, it would be a similar argument to the one you are making now about unemployment. Tim