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Unemployment statistics are very deceitful, as we all know. They don't count the many people not seeking work. They don't count the people on disability from anything from depression to alcoholism to morbid obesity to what else?
What percentage of Americans are actually working and paying taxes to support everyone else? Those statistics aren't readily available, are they? I contend that that percentage is constantly shrinking. And, as jobs with a living wage become less available, more and more people are too poor to pay much more than just social security taxes. If you are poor enough, you get an earned income credit to offset your income taxes.
Meanwhile, the poor and uneducated continue to produce more children than the middle class, mainly because the middle class tends to behave more responsibly and is less likely to be careless in all aspects of life. Call me classist, but you know it's true, it's an easily observable fact. The underclass also tends to do a poorer job raising kids, even with the help of a multitude of government programs from WIC to Headstart.
Who will support the coming generations of increasingly government dependent people if the pool of full time workers with good paying jobs keeps shrinking and the pool of people needing some sort of government assistance keeps growing? And, why does the government keep counting the the unemployment rate instead of the more honest employment rate?
What percentage of Americans are actually working and paying taxes to support everyone else? Those statistics aren't readily available, are they? I contend that that percentage is constantly shrinking. And, as jobs with a living wage become less available, more and more people are too poor to pay much more than just social security taxes. If you are poor enough, you get an earned income credit to offset your income taxes.
Meanwhile, the poor and uneducated continue to produce more children than the middle class, mainly because the middle class tends to behave more responsibly and is less likely to be careless in all aspects of life. Call me classist, but you know it's true, it's an easily observable fact. The underclass also tends to do a poorer job raising kids, even with the help of a multitude of government programs from WIC to Headstart.
Who will support the coming generations of increasingly government dependent people if the pool of full time workers with good paying jobs keeps shrinking and the pool of people needing some sort of government assistance keeps growing? And, why does the government keep counting the the unemployment rate instead of the more honest employment rate?