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Posted on 07/06/2026 6:15:08 AM PDT by Pete Dovgan
Did you know that the number of Americans that are out of work right now is far higher than it was at any point during the Great Recession? I know that sounds crazy, but I will prove it to you in this article. A whopping 111 million Americans do not have a job, and we are spending more than a trillion dollars a year on the social safety net that supports them. Of course we cannot afford to do this, because the national debt has already reached 39 trillion dollars and it is growing at an astounding rate. If we do not fix our economy, disaster is inevitable..........
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The Liberty Daily is a junk website, kind of a lower-rent version of Alex Jones, if that is possible. They constantly print junk.
It’s a shame, because there is a real issue here with freeloaders, but intentionally misleading analysis is not how to win the argument.
Let me ask a question to be specific. What number of people, in the United States, are over the age of 18, but less than 67, are there total, and how many have full time employement?
In the United States, there are
approximately 211.5 million people who are total residents over the age of 18 but less than 67. Within this demographic, an estimated 122.5 million individuals have full-time employment.
Government agencies do not compile standard economic datasets using the specific cutoff of 67. However, the data can be calculated precisely by aggregating official records from the U.S. Census Bureau and the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS):1. Total Population Breakdown (Ages 19 to 66)According to the latest U.S. Census Bureau single-year age data, the total population counts are structured as follows: Ages 18 to 64: 202.77 million residents fall into this core adult bracket. Ages 65 and 66: Approximately 8.73 million residents are added to reach your upper parameter.
Basically, in working age, Labor force participation is 57.9
%. The highest overall civilian labor force participation rate in U.S. history is 67.3 percent, which was reached in January 2000. If we were there, it would be 142.3 million employed.
So we are about 20 million jobs short, or people willing to work, or both.
“So we are about 20 million jobs short, or people willing to work, or both.”
About 20 million are enrolled in college.
What about Gen X, Millennials and Gen Z? We are not going to get our $$$ back from the taxes we are currently paying.
There are numerous people still here all over the place who are here illegally taking jobs and also collecting all kinds of welfare benefits while sending money from the jobs they took, that used to be for Americans, back to their home countries.
America is paying to take care of the world and losing ourselves in the process. I do not see this issue as ever being fixed because it would take the real will and effort to do so. People don’t have the guts to do that anymore. In fact, the few who were doing this at the beginning of this admin, have been thrown out, and replaced by pantywaists.
Globalism sucks.
Obviously, there are issues with that.
But we're in a much better shape than Europe for many, many reasons.
Yes, we have some problems to deal with and Trump is working on it.
“What about Gen X, Millennials and Gen Z? We are not going to get our $$$ back from the taxes we are currently paying.”
Call your congressmen.
We used to govern and employ by relationships. Much small business. All the rules and regs just kill small business. You are better to be self employed but there is a lot of overhead for that also.
Liberty is the only answer. Liberty is freedom and responsibility.
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I agree with liberty and it’s a very good solution.
However, rules & regulations haven’t been much of a factor lately in my small business.(I’m a manufacturer.)
Foreign producers and domestic competition from small, medium, and large businesses are the main issues.
I’m not a complainer......that’s the way commerce & business operate.
What many of you think of as welfare is about $500 billion/year.
Medicaid adds about $700 billion to that.
I’m about ready to give up. My husband was laid off- there are lots of people looking for work and searches set up to fail- not like used to be. Now any excuse not to even meet you and most ads fishing or scams. Unfortunately we don’t know anyone in our area for leads. Also if over 55 never even get a chance. Living off savings b/c my salary isn’t enough. Now roof leaking- new roof almost a year salary!! I have never been this close to edge in all my life- I don’t know how people are managing. When savings gone I have no idea what will happen. I’ve worked hard my whole life since 15 only to see scam artists be given my hard earned money so they can have luxuries I can’t afford and ain’t no one helping us!!
And then when you add the number of illegals......
I am sorry. The costs for everything have doubled since Biden, and it’s painful for the honest people in the world. The nation needs American jobs, not people here on ‘work visas’ not moving industry out, not insourcing or outsourcing of US jobs out. I hope you find something, don’t give up, good people are still needed.
welfare is constitutionally a state matter, NOT federal.
IMHO, the state should provide a good, working safety net for those citizens who really, genuinely have disabilities preventing them from reasonable gainful employment. That would be about a tenth of the current welfare rolls.
As for the other 90%, let’s give them 3 months notice to go get jobs.
You left out the theft of a $ trillion dollars by somalians, russians and democrats.
There are several types of needy on welfare:
The elderly, Those with muscular dystrophy, etc
The unemployed with skills
The unemployed who chose not to obtain skills
Those with life style choices of tobacco, vaping, alcohol, drugs, STDs, HIV.
I suggest this last group of bad lifestyle choices should be cut off from welfare... from Medicaid, SNAP, TANF, Sec8, LIHEAP, etc. They have the freedom to choose stupidity. But they should not have the freedom to steal our tax money.
BAD LIFESTYLE CHOICES is a big expense on the welfare barbell.
There is no public consensus on the other groups of needy. Proposing to cut them off will not win elections and thus will not happen.
But without cutting them off, there are things we can do on the edges.
FRAUD WASTE ABUSE in welfare is big. Fraud exists not just with the Somalis and Chinese Providers, but also with the white collar Deloitte IT Vendor that makes much of the other fraud possible.
Programs are designed to keep people on welfare and penalize them if they try to get off welfare. Programs should incentivize people to get off welfare.
“They collect Social Security and we are paying for it through taxes.”
Really? I was under the impression that I worked for 50 years and paid taxes and now the government is giving me back MY money I worked my ass off for. Are you the one sending that me that monthly check?
” It’s my understanding once you get on disability you rarely get off.”
Not true. When you reach full retirement age you go on Social Security and “disability” payments go away. Happened to my wife recently.
Wasn’t Trump supposed to bring back manufacturing jobs? Doing that would help put a lot of people without a college degree back to work.
Agree with the other commenters that the 111 million figure wrongly includes the retired, the incarcerated, the disabled, and those with small children. Can’t say I think much of a news source that skews numbers for a sensational “sky is falling” headline.
But a person could be on disability from 25 to their FRA.
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