[sachem longrifle]

A good way to see what America would look like if the Dem party had their total way is to look at western Europe or any Indian reservation. Thats how you can tell whats in store if they should ever come to power

[RexBeach]

By yiminy, dat report is rinning right upt my rimper!

[hubbubhubbub]

"Sweden's unemployment rate is 15 per cent, three times the figure being used by the government"

I hear U.S. is really 12%, 2.5 times the figure used by our government. We're approaching Socialist Sweden.

[litehaus]

Swedes DIDN'T really create heaven on earth??

I am deeply hurt....

[Wuli]

Gee!

I keep getting news items about various issues with regard to Sweden's large Muslim immigrant population. I wonder how many of Sweden's unemployed are Swedish natives who happen to be on the lower end of education and skills and who are now seeing their traditional jobs assumed, more frequently, by immigrants willing to work for less?

Does everyone realize that our own unemployment rate, here in the U.S., (1) does not count the unemployed whose unemployment benefits have run out and who no longer are registered somewhere as actively seeking employment; whereas (2) what is counted is the "number of employed" which is based, in part, on payroll data, which includes payrolls that include illegals who have managed to obtain false social security numbers?

If the "employed" illegals were not counted, and if the unemployed who have quit looking were counted, I wonder what would be the actual rate of unemployed American citizens and legal residents.?

We are told that the "real" unemployment rate is below 5%. Here in New Jersey recently a few thousand people (3,000 I think it was) applied for 300 jobs at a new Walmart store. Is there a statistical disconnect between actual unemploment rate and the government stated numbers?

The economy, in the aggragate, may be doing well (the sum of all things). How much of that that is "doing well" is "doing well" for illegal immigrants and how much of their "doing well" is slowing the rate of economic progress of the least skilled and least educated American citizens among us?

We are told that Mexican nationals working illegally in the U.S. sent $20 billion back to Mexico last year. What if there were not 12 million illegals allowed to work here, our real unempoyment rate was 4% and that $20 billion had remained here in the U.S.?

[VOA]

It praised Sweden for achieving average GDP growth of 2.7 per cent a year
since 1995, which it attibuted to deregulation and improvements in
private sector productivity.

Now there's a knock-out punch to deliver when some liberal is yammering
about how Sweden shows that socialism works so well.
You can just say "well, the Swedes seem to think that socialism has
run out of steam!".