January's labor report confirmed yet another month with over 100
million Americans not working. In fact, more than 100 million Americans
have not been working in Obama's workers' paradise for all of 2012 and
2013, a unique achievement in American history.
White House spokesman James Carney hailed this as a milestone on the
path toward the ultimate complete liberation of the American worker from
the drudgery of work.
The 101.7 million Americans not working in January reflected the
employment-population ratio for the month of 58.8%, compared to — to put
it in proper perspective — 62% in a good year. By the fifth year of
Reagan's recovery, the employment population ratio was up to 61.5%, on
its way to 63.0% in 1989. That represented an increase of 17 million
jobs since the Carter recession started.
Today, after five years of Obama as president, we still have not
recovered the jobs lost since the latest recession began in December
2007. The economy then was employing 146.273 million Americans. More
than six years later, in January 2014, the number of Americans employed
was still only 145.244 million, or about 1 million fewer jobs. By now in
the normal recovery there would be 6 million more jobs.
Obama is not the only president to be challenged by a recession while
in office. Since the Great Depression, there have been 10 other
recessions before this last one. On average, all the jobs lost in those
recessions were recovered within two years after the recession started.
Moreover, Obama apologists cannot claim that the recovery from the
recession was so bad because the recession was so bad. The historical
record for the American economy has always been that the worse the
recession, the stronger the recovery. Under every other president in
U.S. history, going back for well over a century at least, the economy
was in a booming recovery within years, even under Franklin Roosevelt
during the Great Depression!
How has Obama managed to "liberate" so many workers from work?
Through Social Security disability, which has increased by more than
21%, extending "unemployment" benefits to two years and by eliminating
work requirements as a condition of receiving federal benefits.
The number of Americans on food stamps has soared by 50% under Obama
to close to 50 million, largely because work requirements, asset checks
and other restraints on abuse have been relaxed. Indeed, more than twice
as many more Americans have gotten food stamps under Obama than have
gotten jobs. Under ObamaCare, the same transformation is now under way
for Medicaid.
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