Lost tribe of Westwood

In the Muskegon Chronicle, in the letters to the editor section, a man bring up a very valuable point. The Government likes to play with numbers so that things don't look so bad. His example was the unemployment figures. According to statistics Muskegons unemployment is around 8%. The true number is around 30%. The government does not count those who's benefits have run out and still do not have a job. They also do not count the ones who don't qualify for unemployment because their past employers refuse to let them collect unemployment by trumping up false charges to avoid paying. If you want the real number, it is closer to 50%. Teenagers who have never had a job and are unsuccessful in searching for their first job, those who have chosen to go on welfare as a last resort, those who have become disabled and are going through years of paperwork to get disability, small business owners who have lost their business and don't qualify for unemployment, and of course our convicts who lost their jobs because they were bad. Let's not even mention the jobs loses if our troops come home.
The government speaks of the strain on Social Security because of the retirement of the baby boomers. What they fail to mention is that there should be an abundance of jobs with all these baby boomers retiring. Where are these jobs? Mexico, India, Pakistan, and anywhere you have cheap labor. Why are we still calling this a recession?