The displaced worker is confronted with choice of working at a level far below his/her skills, education, and abilities warrant, or staying unemployed. When government reports that in near future "Every one who wants a job will get one," connotation of unemployment is that jobless workers do not WANT to work. This political myth leads to increased depression, diminished self-esteem, and final conclusion by legions of unemployed that their personal fears turned out to be true: they are worthless, unwanted, redundant. The universal anxiety about not being quite good enough, not measuring up, not able to run with big dogs has been validated and mental health of unemployed deteriorates further.

"Everyone who wants to work will have a job." What a great political tagline. But what does it imply? That anyone without a job does not want to work?

The logic is: Let's not blame unsuccessful economic strategy, or corporate greed of top executives making millions while trimming their work force to increase profits, or repetitively poor political decisions - let's put blame on poor saps out of work who must have done something wrong to get into that position. And let's not extend unemployment benefits because that will force them into taking those awful bottom level jobs which will make unemployment rate go down and ourselves look good. We just have to get media to buy into big lie and we're all set.

Arrogance, dereliction, and disinformation. The big lie, often enough repeated, apparently works.