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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: TimF who wrote (172194)	7/21/2003 6:04:55 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1578036

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. I still don't think you got my point. You were saying that the unemployment rate is not as bad in this recession. To the person who is unemployed, that means nothing. That is why I said "tell it to the unemployed". They will not be impressed that it was worse in another time. Their current experience with unemployment hurts them no less even though the rate is not as bad as it could be. ted