From: kludge@panix.com   
      
   Keith F. Lynch  wrote:   
   >It's claimed that the US unemployment rate is very low, but I suspect   
   >the government simply defines most unemployed people as not being part   
   >of the labor force.  There seem to be more and more homeless people   
   >every year.  The Washington Post keeps asking why so many people   
   >believe the economy is in bad shape when the government informs us   
   >that it's in great shape.  My conjecture is that the government is   
   >lying to us.   
      
   I hate to tell you this but a lot of the homeless people in the DC area   
   actually have jobs.... just not jobs that pay enough for them to live   
   off the streets.  If anything, that is more damning.   
   --scott   
      
   --   
   "C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."   
      
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