Is it just me, or is there any truth to rumors that unemployment is hovering around the 10% mark?

Toyota, one of, if not the, safest carmakers in the world has issued a massive recall based on a defect rate of one one/hundredth percent of its production. That alone idles plants and puts more people out of work. What do you think of the Obama administration’s decision to idle even more people by now calling Toyota on the carpet requiring the company to prove it reacted quickly enough. As if any finding whatsoever of any nature would have any effect on preventing such a problem in the future?