More Reason to Expand This Other 1 Percent

The headlines regarding employment are grim, yet misleadingly promising . . . That's journalistic double speak for political double speak.  We're through with that now and moving right to the point.

The month of December came in way under expectations for employment opportunities, as have several months through the "recovery" after the back page revisions are noted.  The real issue with this sad information is that with fewer jobs, the unemployment figures have gone down, because unemployment benefits have run out, and more boomers have latched on to social security and disability, rather than fight their way back into the job force.

Here are the statistics that caught my eye, as the rest of the figures we are being fed, can be hand picked to produce the stats of choice, depending upon the political strategy to be "proven."

Here are some hard figures I found in completely unrelated sources.  The business and money section of cnn says, only 62.8% of Americans are working.  I do not know if that is Americans over the age of 18 or 21.  I haven't researched that.  The point, I will make here is that even with low unemployment figures for the last quarter, 62.8% means nearly 40%, specifically 37.2% of Americans are not employed.

The next figures I researched were those of government employment.  According to the link below, 15.3 percent of the entire American workforce is employed by the government on some level.  That means 15.3% of the work force receive their paycheck from the withholding taxes of the 62.8% of Americans who are working.  To take that a step further . . . 62.8% of the population becomes 100% of the work force.  We, then, have to deduct 15.3% of that figure, and I'm being generous toward the deficit, in that 15.3% of the work force are processing papers and serving the 37.2% of the non-contributing population.  Now, before anyone gets upset, I'm not name calling or pointing fingers.  This is purely a mathematical situation, which is proving to be unsustainable, and worse, reported inaccurately from month to month.

Here are the figures based upon the percentages given of a population of 300,000,000.
America has 188,400,000 people presently working.   Of those working, 18,900,000 are self employed and
28,825,200 31,716,900 government employed.   While, for various reasons, 111,600,000 are not working and many in this figure are not included in the employment or unemployment statistics at all.  Obviously this is a complete statistical shift from days gone by.

Health care fields account for almost 11% of the employment in this country.  To offer a quick observance of the new economic balance in this country.  I couldn't find the stats for employment opportunities in the criminal justice system, but that is also a major employer in the private sector now.  Of the 111,600,000 people not working, there are government workers processing their paperwork for assistance, health care workers providing care, or guards and probation officers overseeing.  Our economy of perpetual motion is based upon an infrastructure of disease, disability, and crime!

Come on out of mainstream . . . The 1% is gaining wealth and power, while the 98% exchange their monopoly money of going passed GO, collecting $200.00 to land on INCOME TAX, and avoid JAIL, until they qualify for disability, SS, or long term care.


http://money.cnn.com/2014/01/10/news/economy/december-jobs-report/index.html?hpt=hp_t1  62.8%

http://www.governing.com/news/state/2010-census-public-employees-workforce-among-states.html  15.3%