By freeloaders, I mean someone who takes from the common wealth (or what you call it) but gives nothing back. It's of course not black and white, someone may live off the government, but they've already paid a lot of taxes in the past to make up for it. Still, if there are different shades of freeloader, they should be better represented in the percentage of the population who don't have a job.
If freeloaders (whatever they are) make up 5% of unemployed people in Norway and 3% of unemployed people in the states, judging by a comparison of 3% to 10% unemployment respectively, you could still say there are more freeloaders in the US.
The reason I brought it up is because increase in freeloaders is an argument I've often seen used against socialist politics. Indeed it's hard to say what a freeloader is or label them in any kind of statistics, but with Norway as an example socialist country, I wanted to show that there's little to indicate we have more freeloaders than the US. You're right that the stats don't show freeloaders, but I was using it as an indicator. To say unemployed = freeloader is of course a vast exaggeration.
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