Even I was shocked when I read this statistic. We've all conjectured about what the real unemployment figure is. When you look around at all of the people who are not working and the hoards of people why buy their groceries with EBT cards, you get the definite impression that there are a lot more than 7.3 percent out of work. Depending on who you talk with, that figure is somewhere between 16% and 22%.
But, the figure I saw yesterday almost knocked me for a loop. Long-term joblessness is up by 213% since the start of this recession.
How do you come to grips with an astonishing figure like that? And we want these people to pay out hundreds of dollars per month for health insurance? Even with a subsidy, how can they afford it? How can we justify sending billions of dollars to foreign countries when we're looking at a figure like this?
Dear God, what have we become when our government fails to look after the well-being of its citizens?
That's MY AMERICAN OPINION, respectfully submitted.
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