I'm a Liberal, and I sure care about jobs for average folks. But, I am an old time Liberal, like Ike. If you want to know when the unemployment rate is acceptable, just ask me!! My feet are rooted in reality, the reality that I see around me, and in my travels. And folks, it's really bad out there now. Really bad. I don't need no stinkin' stats or figures, I just drive past the food banks and notice how many folks are in line. I look at the forclosures in the newspaper here. I look at the lists of folks with deliquent property taxes in our paper. And I look at the number of properties being auctioned off for back taxes at our local courthouse. Which by the way, I expect an expoential increase at this year's auction, going by the lists in the paper. I look at the number of folks who lost power and water from not paying their utility bills. The number here in my area is nothing like I have ever seen before. The real rate for the unemployed today is close to 20 per cent. Not 9 per cent! The financial crash, created by greed, and placed upon the taxpayers to finance served as a ruler to measure just how badly this offshoring has hurt average Americans. Unless you see factories being restaffed, or built, to expect this mess to get fixed is a pipe dream, a drunken perception that refuses to admit the reality of our current economic model. It's the current Repub economic model that is flawed. All recessions in the past were corrected when industry geared back up and call folks back. No one to call the unemployed back, PLUS factory jobs are still being bled as we speak. And someone has the nerve to expect recovery for the unemployed? What a fucking joke. You guys do live in La La Land. I don't.