Instead of Working 2 1/2 Days a Week

and collecting six-figure salaries for it, those people who supposedly represent us need to quit farting around and actually DO something about the unemployment crisis in this country.

Burying one's head in the sand or spewing bullshit about "lazy" unemployed people isn't going to cut it:

As Washington begins to take on unemployment it needs to realize that the larger economic problem is that the demand for labor is too low. This lack of demand is not manifest in unemployment alone, but also in fewer hours worked, stagnant or falling wages, and the lack of job mobility. These are important economic problems, but they're also psychological troubles because work is a defining aspect of life.

When we hear that the unemployment rate is 9.8 percent and destined for 10 percent it can be hard to know just how bad this is. After all, a pop quiz would reveal few people accurately know how many Americas work. So picture it this way: 9.8 percent is more than 15 million people. In other words, as many people in America are unemployed as live in Illinois -- if Illinois added another Chicago to its population. The average worker of the 15 million has been out of a job for six months, and 5.4 million of them have been looking even longer.

Try a year-and-a-half here with absolutely NO prospects whatsoever.

Job creation programs need to be implemented, but nobody in Congress will suggest it. Bailing out Wall Street is more important.