One other thing, TomGuy...
While the jobless claims were at 80,000, during the same week 84,000 people received Social Security disability.
They’re set for life. They do not have to look for a job anymore, or work somewhere and pay taxes and be a productive American citizen. Now I know SSD isn’t a whole lot of money... But with rent assistance, food stamps, utility grants and other programs you can have a relatively comfortable life. And you don’t have to get off oyu’re fat disabled a$$ to even make a phone call, ‘cause you get an Obamaphone for free!
This just adds to the pool of voters who receive benefits from the government. Think they’ll vote for someone who wants to cut these benefits or taxes the workers drone even more so they can continue the gravy train?
Be very afraid!
One other thing I saw recently to illustrate just how bad the 80,000 number is in reality, it takes about 125,000 new jobs just to keep pace with the growing population. It should be better described as we saw a 45,000 jobs deficit for June alone. Maybe some enterprising soul should go all the way back to February 2009 and run the numbers that way and see what the actual deficit is to date.
Hey Romney Campaign, are you reading?
I haven't done an exact calculation, but I am going to guess that if the average poor person in this country had to find a job and replace all the government benefits with an actual paycheck, that poor person would probably have to make around $30-35,000 per year before taxes. I'm sure somebody might have already worked that calculation out, but I have never seen it.
No wonder then that poor people have no incentive to find a job that probably does not exist in the market today.
Add that to around 6,000,000 people who have dropped out of the American work-force during Obama's term so far, and Obama wanting to put 800,000 illegals into the work force, and it will be very difficult for anybody to remove the idle from the benefit gangs.
Why on GOD’S green earth is the information on disability NOT being
screamed from the rooftops!!! I am so sick of our messengers they
are a bunch of woosies!!!!!