if only it had been 38400, much more appropriate to an IT job cut.

In the U.S. over 600,000 U.S. jobs are being lost every single month and it's going to get worse. Next month they'll start counting the lost jobs in the U.S. auto industry and it will be staggering. GM just announced today they are cutting another 4,000 whire collar jobs on top of the previous cuts. The auto industry buys tons of PCs, or they did until the crap hit the fan. IT is gonna suffer big time now.

It is that damn outsourcing.

I know someone nearly lost their job last week because the company found out they can hire two thias at half the price.

How does that break down then?

306 million people. 20% under 20 leaves 12.4% over 65, so about 100 million too old or young to work.

So that leaves about 200 million who can work and only 132 million who do work.... about 33% unemployment rate?

yeah man, i thought exactly the same thing.

maybe we can petition someone...