Neubarth
At the Ballpark July 30th
Here, ponder these numbers and tell me what you come up with. In the last census we horribly undercounted the population. That undercount is still factored in to the estimated population of the US. I will just round it off to 310 Million.
Population of these United States is 310,000,000
Population that is 15 years old or under 60,000,000
Population that is over 68 years old 35,000,000
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Potential Working age population is 215,000,000 (16 years to 68 years)
From them, subtract the following.
Population that is in prison is 2,300,000
Population that is in military 1,400,000 (Army Navy Air Force Marines)
Disabled working age population 1,300,000 (That is a generous estimate.)
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Available workforce 210,000,000
People employed full time 137,000,000 (from the nefarious DOL and probably an overstatement for effect)
People unemployed or under-employed in the working population 73,000,000 (210 M minus 137 M) (If they do not have full time jobs.)
73 M divided by 210 M times 100 for the percentage. (34%) Oh No!
Thus 34% of the working population is unemployed or underemployed.
Even if you were to say that 40 million were college students or seniors in high school or full time housewives or househusbands, you will still have 33 million unemployed.
Colleges conducting their own surveys keep coming up with this 33 million number of people who would be working if only they could find a real job. Many of them are working part time jobs, but you can not support a family on a part time job.
Somehow, I just do not trust the government numbers, especially when they say that less than half of the population is in the workforce. 153 Million versus 310 Million. (This is not Mexico or Guatemala or a similar country where there is a large segment of the population that is not trained to work in a factory or office or some other capacity. If you are too dumb for more technical jobs, there is always the army or farm work or a shovel.)
Population of these United States is 310,000,000
Population that is 15 years old or under 60,000,000
Population that is over 68 years old 35,000,000
___________________________________________
Potential Working age population is 215,000,000 (16 years to 68 years)
From them, subtract the following.
Population that is in prison is 2,300,000
Population that is in military 1,400,000 (Army Navy Air Force Marines)
Disabled working age population 1,300,000 (That is a generous estimate.)
_______________________________________
Available workforce 210,000,000
People employed full time 137,000,000 (from the nefarious DOL and probably an overstatement for effect)
People unemployed or under-employed in the working population 73,000,000 (210 M minus 137 M) (If they do not have full time jobs.)
73 M divided by 210 M times 100 for the percentage. (34%) Oh No!
Thus 34% of the working population is unemployed or underemployed.
Even if you were to say that 40 million were college students or seniors in high school or full time housewives or househusbands, you will still have 33 million unemployed.
Colleges conducting their own surveys keep coming up with this 33 million number of people who would be working if only they could find a real job. Many of them are working part time jobs, but you can not support a family on a part time job.
Somehow, I just do not trust the government numbers, especially when they say that less than half of the population is in the workforce. 153 Million versus 310 Million. (This is not Mexico or Guatemala or a similar country where there is a large segment of the population that is not trained to work in a factory or office or some other capacity. If you are too dumb for more technical jobs, there is always the army or farm work or a shovel.)