WE ARE THE 99% Forum JOIN THE PROTEST!!!!!

the government is giving jobs to people in other countries? how so? or do you mean people from other countries? and not to say you're wrong, opinions are opinions, but 45% didn't seem right to me, so i'm going to go on the assumption someone was being a fearmonger and you happened to read it, as it happened it sides with how you're feeling so you bought it. i'm leaning towards the idea that that 45% number is comprised of the gross population of the united states, that meaning that it includes the age demographics that can't work, (say 0-14 and 65<) and since babyboomers are now all retiring of course that number is going to sky-rocket, and the government/economy is going to be even more stressed because they'll all be using up their savings/welfare/pension/whatever-broken-to-s**t-system-they-bought-into-earlier. but as far as i can find, the unemployment rate of america is hovering around 9-10% in it's working demographic. and even then, there's people with under the table jobs, and people with multiple jobs, people who can get jobs but stay on welfare, and people who just don't give a damn. so the numbers are all kind of hazy as far as accuracy goes. 

i don't want to sound like a dick who's just speculating, since i admit i don't know your plight, but i'm betting there are jobs out there, albeit they may be scrubbing toilets at the spiciest mexican fast food restaurant in town, but they're jobs, right? right. people aren't entitled to jobs, a job is something you need to go and hunt for, a decent wage is a privilege, and the north american standard of living is not a right, your life's potential, however, is. 

if your country is still standing, however shakily, with 45% of it's people unemployed... christ, Obama must have some kind of superpower. that's like someone who's born 45% paralyzed still making it on its own, however slowly it's dying.

if you're not collecting bottles for money yet then as far as i'm concerned you're more lazy and apathetic than the homeless man rummaging through the city trash cans. there's money out there, i don't care if it's loose change or not, if you're not going after it, don't say someone should find a way to spin money and jobs out of thin air. that's why there's no more money to spin and no more jobs to just give, because people have been asking for those same things for decades.

brain teaser! - just to see what would happen if... : what if there was no big bad scary terrible government to blame this all on, who/what would you blame? what would you do?