States need to become responsible for 'Welfare', it's a State's 10th Amendment responsibility. The Federal government has to get out of the NGO and welfare business.
Using the safety net as a hammock.
The figures seem to include homemakers.
That needs to be backed out of the numbers.
From your math, it appears that we’re past the point of being able to vote our way out of it. (And the judges won’t let anyone deprive them of their “right” to their welfare benefits.) So ...
In the sweet old country where I come from
Nobody ever works, nothing ever gets done
We hang fire
We got nothing to eat, we go nowhere to work
Nothing to drink. We just lost our shirt
I'm on the dole, we ain't for hire
Say what the hell? Say what the hell?
and Hang fire . . . .
Back when the Rolling Stones took a turn to the Right, they put out Hang Fire. They were singing about lazy, Socialist England of the late 1970s but it applies to the US now.
Somewhere along the line we lost the “you don’t work, you don’t eat” ethos. I wonder who started that trend?
An example....my daughter, who is married, doesn't have a job. But her husband does.
Yet she's counted as unemployed.
I myself am retired so I fit in the 111 million "out of work".
Really need some better metrics on this.
Capital replaces labor.
It’s simple: we keep importing foreigners who work more cheaply.
If you want jobs available for these 111 million Americans, then the people who aren’t Americans need to leave. Simple as.
The situation is hopeless and a lot of people are going to have a very RUDE awakening when the SHTF. Many are so clueless about a household budget, and couple THAT with so many being LAZY and so many so used to being given everything FOR FREE.
When the SHTF I’m expecting riots in the cities and when they’ve destroyed all of that, I see the mongrels heading out to the countryside to harass those of us who have always paid their way through confiscatory TAXES.
TAXATION IS THEFT! INFLATION IS THEFT! Don’t kid yourselves; Mother Government is in the BUSINESS of THEFT and wealth redistribution.
It’s not going to end well. It never has ended well for any other country that’s gone broke.
In late 2009, more than 15 million people were unemployed. Somebody’s numbers don’t add up.
Uhhh….we have about 30 million more people (at least the ones we know about) than we did back then…
Yes but how many of them are Baby Boomers. We’ve had a low birth rate since the ‘70s so because we want to have Social Security so we should be at 450 million today.
How is that even possible?
We only have a population of 350 mil. Our unemployment rate is 4.2%
Yet 111 mil adults [nearly 30% of the population] are not employed?
I am not the sharpest knife in the drawer but that makes no sense to me.
We have a totally printed, fiat money supply, courtesy of the Federal Reserve, which allows Fed.gov to run $2-3 Trillion deficits every year
We also have China, which is still willing to do much of our manufacturing work for us, in exchange for printed, green Federal Reserve notes.
Its a pretty good deal, while it lasts.
It’s elementary economics: If you subsidize something, you’re guaranteed to get more of it. The worst of our many “social safety net” programs have subsidized indolence, irresponsibility and bastardy, and now we’re drowning in all three. The growth of shamelessness certainly doesn’t help.
How about getting rid of all of the bullshit regulations that prevent job creation...
When the warm embrace of socialism engulfs us all, we’ll be fat, dumb and happy.
If you are 85 years old and you are not living in a nursing home, you are considered an “available worker” under U.S. Department of Labor statistics — even if you’ve been retired for 20 years.
How many are really Americans.🙄🤔