60% Unemployment?!

If I heard right Iraq suffers from a 60% unemployment rate! No wonder we are (and they are) having difficulties there. No society can survive or progress with that high an unemployment rate.
The Great Depression is remembered in this country as a disaster and our unemployment rate then was around 25%. Democracy almost failed, and in some parts of the world it did--Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy, for example, emerged from the chaos.
Everyone talks about battling the "insurgents" but no one speaks of the economic chaos that exists; and why should, or could, they, when they can remain in the "Green Zone" listening to "pep-talks" from military "information" officers who can see "progress" in any situation.
I was thinking about how many of the proponents of the administration were taking tours to Iraq and then coming back expressing how well we "in reality" were doing in fighting the insurgents and rebuilding Iraq. I was questioning this in my mind and it so happened I watched HardBall the other night and it became clear, after some sharp questioning by Chris Matthews, that these tours in reality were nothing more than one big propaganda ploy by the Bush Administration. Rep. Bill Shuster (R) "toured" Iraq for two days during which he made a very brief "excursion" from the safety of the Green Zone and got his information from the military and a few Iraqi government officials.
The extent that this Administration goes to mislead the American people and the rest of the world is way beyond rationality.
The mind-set the Republicans have is well exemplified by the recent interview with Chris Matthews with Pat Buchanan--anything goes. It is OK for the government to spend your money to lie to you. The Republicans are great at trying to push the Ten Commandments in public places--they should read it sometime--especially the part about falsely testifying?
For more about propagand from the administration try my web site at tiltingatsacredcows.com.