In article , trent wrote:

What I find amusing is that this guy and his sock puppet spend all their
time constructing arguments to knock down. I merely mention that the
unemployment rate doesn't count everyone and immediately 'they' create a
whole set of arguments and views for me out of thin air, not to mention a
variety of insulting statements. Rinse and repeat that for everything else.

THE unemployment rate (called 'the headline number' in the monthly
survey) does NOT count everyone- only those who "had made specific
efforts to find employement sometime during the 4-week period ending
with the reference week." It does not count the number of people
without jobs. And this number is widely disregarded by those outside of
the press. Economists watch the Employment Rate (a number not
calculated by a Government Agency) and the Non-Farm Payrolls number, a
measure of job-creation.

Yep.

What were they saying?

They being trader and his socket puppet? It's in the material you quoted.
basically to them saying that the unemployment number doesn't count
everyone who is unemployed means hold a whole host of views.

Of course you're correct, it only counts specific unemployed people that
meet a set of criteria.