After almost one full term of Obama’s policies, the unemployment rate is still above 8% according to figures released on June 6, 2012.
The number of unemployed women ages 16 and over in the civilian work force increased by 780,000 from January 2009. The economy created only 80,000 jobs in June while 85,000 workers exited the workforce entirely to sign up for Social Security Disability insurance.
According to investors.com, since June 2009 3.1 million workers applied for disability benefits outnumbering the 2.6 million jobs created during the same time period.
In June 14.9% of Americans were unemployed, underemployed or had given up looking and were not counted as employed—up from 14.8% in May and 14.5% in April.
The terrible June numbers do not tell the hidden story of individual citizens losing hope after months, and in some cases years of looking for work.
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This is why people should not be allowed to vote until they are 30 years old. If you are 18 and are not liberal, you don’[t have a heart. If you are 30 and not conservative, you don’t have a mind.
We could also go back to allowing only property owners to vote. People who do not own property have no vested interest in the government, how it runs, how corrupt it is, how much damage they do to our Constitution and a myriad of other issues they do NOT care about. They care about that government check and the food stamps. I know this is rather harsh and is not meant to be a blanket statement, because there are many people whose situation in life, which does not include ownership, is temporarily beyond their control because of this dismal job market, but I think most everyone will get the idea.
If you have been unemployed for a year or two and your unemployment insurance has run out, what are you going to do? What else, what can you lose by applying for disability? And many do. If 1/3 get disability, that is a lot of folks. And they will likely stay on disability until death.
More and more young people unemployed and becoming unemployable. What a reward for mistakingly voting for “Barack Obama” – a deceptive and manipulative crook, thief and criminal acting under ‘natural cover’.