I’m up to my eyeballs in unemployed self-loathing and I just watched that Viggo Mortensen movie The Road, so you can probably imagine what kind of mood I’m in right now.

There were 123 million people living in America during the Great Depression, when employment hit a startling 25%. That means that 30.75 million people were without work.

In today’s America, where it rains bald eagles and freedom, we have 317 million people and an unemployment rate of 10%. So here we are with 31.7 million unemployed.

Thus it is shown that there are more people without jobs today than there were during the Great Depression. Personally speaking, I’m proud to be part of this bold paradigm shift. With a little more effort, perhaps we can have more deaths by guillotine than Europe during the French Revolution. After that, we’ll go to the doctor for a bloodletting party.

The horseless carriage of American Progress rumbles along!