It's Probably Long Overdue for a

reality check, but our "elected" officials are too concerned with their vacations to look at reality.

To call high unemployment a "catastrophe" is understating it a bit.

It is time to reassert that full employment is the primary measure of our economy: "Continuous and useful employment for those willing and seeking to work." Mass unemployment is an unacceptable failure. We will not learn to live with it. We will keep pushing until we eliminate it. Government will strive to create the conditions for the private market to create the jobs we need. But it will act as an employer of last resort for those unable to find work over a long period of time.

That's not what Congress really wants because these people really believe in the neoliberal hogwash that the rich should have everything.