I hope someone's keeping tabs on the phony unemployment figures.

[SoCalDem]

When the reservists and guardsmen DO start coming home, there will be a lot of people "suddenly unemployed"..

These soldiers do expect to get their jobs back, and by law they have a right to them.

Watch the conservos try to spin a bad unemployment number to the "democrat congress"..

I just hope that someone foucses on those reports like a laser and gets all the figures ready to refute what's surely going to come along..

[Igel]

1. A couple of numbers.

"There are currently more than 20,000 U.S. Army Reserve members deployed in Iraq, Caffie said." http://www.armyreserve.army.mil/ARWEB/NEWS/AR_InTheNews.htm

National Guard seems to be ~15k, but I can't find the current number. http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/ops/iraq_orbat.htm needs updating.

[berni_mccoy]

2. I did some research on this back in Jan. 06. Check this out ===>

http://journals.democraticunderground.com/berni_mccoy/1