Yeah in typical Liberty Daily fashion, they are playing with the math to push an agenda. I happen to agree with the agenda and point here but it’s unnecessary dishonest reporting (again, typical of LD).
The numbers include:
Stay at home moms (and dads, fwiw)
People proving health care to family members
Retired people who have saved up plenty
A real analysis would be working age people, excluding the above categories (at least).
It would still be a depressing number, but not sensational enough for LD.
My only surprise in the article is the LD didn’t find a way to complain about Jews causing the problem, which is its usual go-to.
But when they are dishonest with the numbers, the main point, a valid one, gets lost in the noise.
“Retired people...”
Quick search;
Per pensiondaily(dot)com, 16.8% of the nation is retired. This doesn’t account for the % who have financially prepared for retirement, so let’s cut that % down 1/2.. roughly 8%
That is 28 million.
Add the 111 million in this article and we’re at 139 million