what is the big deal about a 9 % increase? these new homeless will soon be under the obama wing. seriously a 9% increase is nothing except for those who are newly homeless.
Lots of those "don't want to DO anything" about their plight... it's so much easier to just align themselves with politicos who will give them money in exchange for their vote. America. What a country!
From Krugman's blog, govt workers as a share of the population. And guess which states have the highest percentage of govt workers per state population? <IMG SRC=http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/graph/fredgraph.png?&chart_type=line&graph_id=&category_id=&recession_bars=On&width=480&height=378&bgcolor=%23B3CDE7&graph_bgcolor=%23FFFFFF&txtcolor=%23000000&ts=8&preserve_ratio=false&fo=ve&id=USGOVT_CNP16OV&transformation=lin_lin&scale=Left&range=Max&cosd=1939-01-01&coed=2010-11-01&line_color=%230000FF&link_values=&mark_type=NONE&mw=4&line_style=Solid&lw=1&vintage_date=2010-12-21_2010-12-21&revision_date=2010-12-21_2010-12-21&mma=0&nd=_&ost=&oet=&fml=100*a%2Fb&fq=Monthly&fam=avg&fgst=lin> Right, Obama is hiring more and more govt workers. And tax cuts for the wealthy create job, lol. Party of the Dumb never does learn.
I think this is off base. Let's admit that in the least, it is easier and faster to create government jobs than it is to fix the ills of business in the private sector. In the current environment I'll support jobs created in any which way, including government jobs....even though in principle I do not like 'big government'.
Put the poor to work? Many of the poor are working and not making ends meet. It is hard to keep a simple efficiency apartment on minimum wage.
Why do you think that is? Government "enslavement" policies? Keep the poor, poor so that they are dependent upon their living from the government? The ONLY chance America has economically is to unleash capitalism and make America a dynamo once again... like China is today. Other than that, America has no hope. The poor, unemployed, minimum wage earners... that will be their life... FOREVER... without radical government change. And by that, I mean EVERYTHING OPPOSITE FROM ODUMBO-NAMICS. (Warren G. Harding had the answer. We're in desperate need of exactly the same today.)
Go long homelessness. A trend goes longer than most think. Unless there are homeless kids, then its not funny anymore. Ef
Wow! I had no idea the test scores were that poor. I took the ASVAB my senior year in high school and flew through the test. The hardest section was Advanced Algebra and that was a breeze. The hardest thing I found about taking the test was to get the recruiters to stop calling me Sample Test: http://www.testprepreview.com/asvab_practice.htm