“While the national unemployment rate for all Americans is at nearly 10 percent (17 percent if you count people who have given up looking for jobs or work only part time),..”
Here’s a comparison with the Depression:
1923-29 3.3%(market crashed 10/29)
1931 15.9%
1933 24.9%
1941 9.9%(Pearl Harbor attacked 12/41)
1942 4.7%
Well, who we gonna declare war on, Israel? Europe? We’re in bed with all the villains now.