Long-Term Unemployed

What are your thoughts regarding the long-term unemployed?  Are you presently unemployed longer than 6 months and actively looking for a job?  Do you know of someone in this situation?  Please share.

And if you are employed,... do you think it is the long-term unemployed people's fault for being unemployed for so long?  And what if you lost your job?  How long do you think it would take to find another one?