While Barack Obama expresses the same concerns for Syrian civilians that he dismissed as B.S. when George W. Bush did so, the U.S. economy is floundering.
Friday the Obama Labor Department said the number of Americans who are 16 years or older and who have decided not to participate in the nation's labor force pushed past 90 million for the first time. 90 million adult Americans are not even looking for work.
In the third week of January 2009, when President Barack Obama took office, there were just over 80 million Americans not in the labor force. The employment-population ratio--has also declined significantly in recent years.
The explanation for this situation is pretty easy. The president supports policies that discourage work. He extends unemployment benefits, penalizes people for hiring others, relaxes work requirements on welfare recipients, uses advertising to actively recruit citizens to join the food stamp rolls, and provides incentives in the form of government benefits for people who want to remain at the bottom of the marketable skill pool.
Simply put, America has under Obama become a nation where it pays less and less to work. It is easier for people to get things from the government for free than it is for entrepreneurs to hire someone to do an honest day of work. It should come as no surprise whatsoever that the Obama Labor Department is reporting that fewer and fewer Americans are choosing to work. The incentives are stacked against work.
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