[mburbank]

Okay, never say I don't give credit where credit is due.

" You can be so skilled that you can break out a triangle and a flute and play "Aqualung" all by yourself, but if no one wants to pay you for that skill, then it ain't worth shit."

THAT was funny, maybe the first intentional thing you've ever said that made me laugh.

"you have said that you know a lot of skilled people that don't have jobs. What are their skills and what are the demands for their skills in our current enviroment?"

It is not the job I am having for the edutumatarorion giving from me on to you. Concertedly if you have a wanting to prove me out wrongly, go look up the factors and bring them out.

Tell you what Claudine. You back up your self employment stats and I'll cut and paste a few hundred pages on the current state of the job market. But chew on this in the meantime. If %100 of the job growth last month was in government, that means the only serious growth in demand that month was for the ever swelling government provided by your big quasi war hero Bush. But then you republicans have always favored huge, bloated government. Oh, wait, no you don't, you're against it.