State unemployment systems are crashing due to being overwhelmed.  Excerpts from an AP article:

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Electronic unemployment filing systems have crashed in at least three states in recent days amid an unprecedented crush of thousands of newly jobless Americans seeking benefits, and other states were adjusting their systems to avoid being next.

About 4.5 million Americans are collecting jobless benefits, a 26-year high, so the Web sites and phone systems now commonly used to file for benefits are being tested like never before.

Even those that are holding up under the strain are in many cases leaving filers on the line for hours, or kissing them off with an “all circuits are busy” message. Agencies have been scrambling to hire hundreds more workers to handle the calls.

And in California:

California has seen a record number of calls to an 800 number over the last few weeks.

“During this holiday period we’ve been averaging a record of more than 2 million call attempts a day, and it took more than 20 times before people could get through to our UI call centers,” said Employment Development Department spokeswoman Patti Roberts.

That’s about twice the one-day record of call attempts set in 2004 during an earlier recession, she said.

Twice the one-day record!  Callers making 20 attempts before getting through!  Wow!  Why doesn’t it surprise me that the government can’t deal with a problem that they created.  What is our government going to do when 1 out of every 10, 9, 8, or even 7 people are unemployed and pissed off because of government inefficiency?  Those zombies will unite!  Here is what happened in Argentina after the economic collapse there.  It’s part 1 of 12 and is very good.

Do you think that this type of thing can’t happen here?  Argentina was the world’s 8th wealthiest country following WWII but due to government corruption and increasing socialism (sound familiar?) the economy collapsed. 

I can almost hear the sounds of angry mobs in the California air.