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[bob ford <bobford79 AT yahoo.com>]

Unemployment in 1933 was 25.2%, and if it occurs now, I would bet we'll see 
it in 3 to 4 years, not 10.  By the way, Pollyana, I don't know exactly how 
they counted unemployment numbers then, but I think that I have read that it 
was pretty much unemployed white men who were counted.  If everyone who 
wouldm have been willing to work had been counted, might the number have been 
50% ?  I really don't know .............bobf


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--- On Sun, 11/23/08, Marie McHarry <mmcharry AT gmail.com> wrote:

> Some people will continue to work. Even in the depths of the
> Great Depression the highest unemployment rate was less than 25
> percent, which meant that the great majority of people were still
> working. I'm sure it could get that bad again, but not in the next 10
> years or so, and by that time we may have learned to cope.
>  Of course, back in the 1930s the employment rate may have been kept
> more honestly than it is now.
> 
> Marie, aka Pollyanna

> >