The answer is "full-time jobs." I bet you thought I was going to say that Americans on "Food Assistance and Disability." I can hear you give a sigh of relieve. Be careful! Why? According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), there are 116 million Americans with full-time jobs, which includes 21.9 million government workers. (Keep-in-mind that government workers are not the productive ones within our society when it comes to increasing ones standard of living. That is, these workers do not produce goods and services that we Americans buy. If anything, these workers are to some extent a necessary evil.) Now, on the other hand, there are 112.5 million individuals on food assistance and disability, or something like 1 out of 3 Americans. Therefore, there are only 3.5 million more Americans with full-time jobs than there are Americans who are reliant on the government for their daily bread. And, if you exclude government workers from the productive side of society, then, you have 40.3 million more Americans on government support than those Americans who actually produce something of value. Let me be very clear on the state of the economy, given these statistics, it is dismal and only going to get worse.
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