My personal experience is that I graduated last year and it was already difficult to find a job (granted the game industry doesn’t have entry level positions, like, ever) but I remain ‘jobless’ which is decidedly a crap ton worse than ‘unemployed’ cause I get no checks for 2/3 of my income. Here in the US they leave you high and dry. Luckily for me I have parents that love me enough to financially take care of me a little longer and can live with me in a civil manner. It’s not glamorous but it beats the hell out of the alternatives. In fact, the vast majority of people I know that are my age (give or take several years) are under-employed or unemployed. I know maybe one or two that make a decent wage at ‘big boy jobs’ (as a friend’s parent puts it). I even know someone who was among the very best in heating in air where he worked. That’s a field that should continue to have plenty of demand especially here in NC where the weather goes from nearly 100F to below freezing depending on the time of year. He got laid off too.

Honestly, I like being optimistic and usually I am, but there’s a fundamental flaw that caused the worlds economy to collapse into the ‘great recession’ and this problem has yet to be corrected. How exactly will things improve without fixing the problem?

If you are unaware of the problem it is very simple (though made to look complicated as hell). Basically, US Politicians are bought by big businesses. crony capitalism forces everyone to look at the ‘bottom line’ of making the filthy rich even richer. So investment bankers ultimately control (or can if they don’t already) everything. I’m talking the d-bags that run AIG, Goldman Sachs and their ilk. It’s like the reverse Robin Hood: rob from the poor and give to the rich. Their stupid schemes are made legal by corrupt politicians and they basically kill off our economy by two ways: 1)Siphoning off money in transit (that’s most of the money which you don’t actually have in cash in your wallet right now) and 2)Creating money out of thin air in vast quantities which devalues money (they also do this with stocks which is called naked short selling and kills good companies).

The economy will be fixed when structural unemployment is eliminated and any person can have access to a job that pays a living wage. We will not have that until these leeches that rule the power investment banks and indirectly the world are brought to justice and usurped.

As the Saturday Night Live skit from last year says: “Step one: fix, Step two: it, Step three: FIX IT, FIX IT, FIX IT!!!!”

I did enjoy reading about John and Steve though, I had friends who moved in and also did nothing but play (my ps3) all day, and racked up the electricity bill, so I told them to either provide me with food or booze, or to get out!
I was fed and drunk!WOOT!

Really?

Unemployment at 10% and rising points to an economic recovery? 480,000 new unemployment claims filed in the last two weeks points to an economic recovery?

Mmmkay.

A little more research and a little less regurgitation of inaccurate soundbytes might allow people to take your articles more seriously.