Young People Without Work - idle hands ...

The Youth Employment Conundrum by George W. Liebmann in today's (11/22/10) The Baltimore Sun hits the nail on the head. (Click title above.) While he make many comparisons to various other countries, he refrained from stretching the point by noting that disenfranchised young people in the Middle East often feel they have nothing to lose, resulting in extremism and violence. At what point will this impact those young people in the USA?

One additional point I might add relates to population growth. Given the the short term, current and projected world population growth patterns, men, especially those without jobs and futures, are the least likely to find wives and build families, thus adding to the frustration. On a world-wide basis, this relates to the decreasing number of babies per family coupled with the unspoken female genocide that exists in certain countries. There will simply be less women available or willing to accept men with limited futures.