Unemployment rate is a calculated lie.

"The nation's unemployment rate fell to its lowest level in nearly three years at the end of 2011, as a burst of private-sector hiring helped sustain what has been a positive trend lately in the job market."
                                   --- FOX News 01-06-12

   The Obama Administration has recently taken credit for a minuscule drop in the unemployment rate. But they fake the unemployment numbers by counting only those currently on unemployment.
   For the real unemployment statistics we have to add those who have used their benefits and are still out of work, as well as those "marginally" employed.
   Thus the November percentage rises to 15.6%. That's more than 40 million adult Americans who want work and can't get it!
   Remember that when you vote -- union or open shop; red state or blue state; black, brown, beige-y pink, olive, tan, tawny, or bronze -- that over 40,000,000 Americans can't get work, and some of them are you.