by Michael
Snyder
Did you know that the
percentage of the U.S. labor force that is employed has continually been falling
since 2006 according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics? Did you know that the
increase in the number of Americans "not in the labor force" during Barack
Obama's first four years in the White House was more than three times
greaterthan the increase in
the number of Americans "not in the labor force" during the entire decade of the
1980s?
The mainstream media
would have us believe that 157,000 jobs were added to the U.S.
economy in January. Based on that news, the Dow broke the 14,000 barrier for
the first time since October 2007. But if you actually
look at the "non-seasonally adjusted" numbers, the number of Americans with a
job actually decreased by
1,446,000 between December and
January. But nowhere in the mainstream media did you hear that the U.S.
economy lost
more than 1.4 million jobs between December and
January.
It is amazing the
things that you can find out when you actually take the time to look at the hard
numbers instead of just listening to the media spin. Back in 2007, more than 146 million
Americanswere
employed. Today, only 141.6
million Americans are employed even
though our population has grown steadily since then. When the government and
the media tell you that we are in a "recovery" and that unemployment is lower
than it was a couple of years ago, I encourage you to dig deeper.
The
truth is that even the government's own numbers tell us that the percentage of
the U.S. labor force that is employed continues to fall and that the U.S.
economy is heading
into a recession. The Obama
administration and the media have been lying to you about unemployment and about
the true condition of our economy. After you see the numbers that I have
compiled in this article, I think that you will agree with
me.
First of all, let's
take a look at the percentage of the civilian labor force that has been employed
over the past several years. These numbers come directly from the Bureau of
Labor Statistics. As you can see, this
is a number that has been steadily falling since 2006...
2006: 63.1
2007: 63.0
2008: 62.2
2009: 59.3
2010: 58.5
2011: 58.4
In January,
only 57.9 percent of the civilian labor
force was employed.
Do the numbers above
represent a positive trend or a negative trend?
Even a 2nd grader could
answer that question.
So how in the world can
the Obama administration and the mainstream media claim that the employment
picture is getting better and that we are in a "recovery"?
But most Americans
believe what they are told. It is almost as if we are in some kind of a
"matrix" where reality is defined by the
corporate-controlled propaganda that is relentlessly
pumped into our brains.
The only way that the
government has been able to show a declining unemployment rate is by dumping
massive numbers of Americans into the "not in the labor force"
category.
Just check out how
the number of Americans "not in the labor force" has absolutely skyrocketed in
recent years...
2006:
77,387,000
2007:
78,743,000
2008:
79,501,000
2009:
81,659,000
2010:
83,941,000
2011:
86,001,000
In January, there were
supposedly 89,868,000 Americans that were at
least 16 years of age that were not in the labor force.
That number has
risen by more than 8 million since Barack Obama
first entered the White House, and that is highly unusual, because the number of
Americans "not in the labor force" only increased by 2,518,000 during the entire decade of the
1980s.
You sure can get the
numbers to look more "favorable" if you pretend that millions upon millions of
American workers simply "don't want a job" any longer. The truth is that if
the labor force
participation rate was at the same level
it was at when Barack Obama was first elected, the official unemployment rate
would be well above 10 percent.
But that wouldn't do at
all, would it? 7.9 percent sounds so much nicer.
And of course even if
you do have a job that does not mean that you are doing okay.
If you can believe it,
in America today 41
percent of
all workers make $20,000 a year or less.
To me, that is a mind
blowing statistic. It would be incredibly challenging for anyone to live on
$20,000 a year, much less try to support a family.
If you live in
Washington D.C. or New York City and you have a "good job" working for the
establishment, you
may not realize it, but there are tens of
millions of American families that are really hurting out there. According to
the U.S. Census Bureau, more than 146 million Americansare either "poor" or
"low income" at this point, and most of those people actually do have
jobs.
For much more on the
"working poor" in the United States, please see my previous article entitled
"35
Statistics About The Working Poor In America That Will Blow Your Mind".
If something is not
done, the middle class will continue to disappear and poverty in America
will continue to explode.
In a previous
article, I
noted that during Obama's first term, the number of Americans on food stamps
increased by an average of about 11,000 per day.
How bad do things have
to get before people realize that we are living through a nightmare?
Most Americans are
still convinced that our politicians will somehow find a way to turn things
around.
Most Americans will
gather around their television sets this weekend and watch the Super Bowl and
laugh at all the funny commercials without even thinking about how America is
literally falling apart all around them.
But there is one group
of Americans that is acutely aware of how bad things have really gotten. Small
businesses have traditionally been the primary engine of job growth in this
country, but right now small business owners all over the nation are facing a
tremendous crisis.
Millions of small
businesses are on the verge of extinction, and yet our politicians just continue
to pile on more taxes, more rules and more regulations.
A recent Gallup poll
found that 61 percent of all small business
owners in America are "worried about the potential cost of healthcare", and that
an astounding 30 percent of all small business
owners in America are not hiring and fear that they will go out of business
within the next 12 months.
In a previous article
entitled "We
Are Witnessing The Death Of Small Business In America", I detailed how small
businesses in America are being systematically wiped out. Small businesses are
dying all around us, and the number of new small businesses continues to
decline.
According to economist
Tim Kane, the following is how the decline in the number of start-up jobs per
one thousand Americans breaks down by presidential administration...
Bush Sr.:
11.3
Clinton: 11.2
Bush Jr.:
10.8
Obama: 7.8
Is that a good trend or
a bad trend?
All of this is so
simple that even the family pet should be able to figure it out, and yet most
Americans seem oblivious to all of this. They just keep gobbling up the
mainstream media propaganda and they just continue to go out and wildly spend
money.
It is almost as if we
didn't learn any lessons from 2008.
Even while household
spending in Europe has moderated, household spending in the United States
continues to soar. Just check out the chart in this article.
And guess what? The
infamous "no money down mortgages" are back. If we wait long
enough, perhaps "interest only mortgages" will make a comeback as
well.
Unfortunately, I am
afraid that time is running out. We have been living in the biggest debt
bubble in the
history of the world, and it is only a matter of time until it bursts.
2008 was just a
"hiccup" compared to what is coming. Our politicians and the
Federal Reservewere able to keep the
house of cards from completely crashing down back then, but they are not going
to be able to avert the economic horror show that is rapidly
approaching.
I hope that you
are getting prepared. Back in 2008,
millions of Americans suddenly lost their jobs, and because many of them did not
have any savings, many of them suddenly lost their homes. One of the most
important things that you can do to prepare for the coming crisis is to build up
an emergency fund. If things suddenly go bad, you don't want to lose your house
and everything that you have always worked for.
In addition, anything
that you can do to become more self-sufficient and more independent of the
system is a good thing, because the system is failing. The years ahead are
going to be much more chaotic than what we are experiencing right now, and when
the next crisis strikes you will be very thankful for the time and the energy
that you put into preparing.
So what are all of you
seeing in your own areas?
Are businesses shutting
down?
Are people having a
hard time finding good jobs?
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