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Where to begin? Let's start at the beginning, sort of.

Finally, Joe, dodging Cyli's post, responds with a plaintive expression of
ignorance of his own ignorance, by lying when he said that Ken J. had asked
me to explain the statement that supposedly started this whole batch of
nonsense,

Actually I did ask (obviously not directly enough though):

"
I guess I took it the wrong way too. It read to me like Op was saying
that since I lived in a hi-tech mecca that the unemployment picture was
different here than in the rest of the country.
- Ken
"

Secondly, Joe somehow comes to the conclusion that I stated that I
live in a "high-tech mecca," and that the whole discussion started with
this "bogus claim"--which it had not, as best I can recall?

Ah, there's the rub. No one said that *YOU* live in a "high-tech
mecca".

Looks like we've identified the reading comprehension problem....
......and it is you. ;-)

- Ken