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	Name:	architect -
	Subject:	Talk about FARCE
	Date:	1/22/2013 12:44:24 AM

MM what did you pull these numbers out of???

According to BLS the total participating job force in Dec 2012 was 155,511,000 (as an aside 1,100,000 higher than in Dec 2008). If you add your 89,000,000 figure of people over 16 who want to work but don't have jobs to this you get 254,500,000 people. The census bureau says the population of the US is currently estimated at 315,000,000 and that under 18 year olds and over 65 year olds make up 34% of that total or about 106,000,000. I will charitably offer that perhaps some of these are between the "over 16 year old" figure you use and the "under 18" used by census and that many those over 65 still want to work...so lets cut that figure by 33% to 70,000,000 (for certain it is higher than that but as I say...charitable). Now let's do some MBA arithmetic:

Your figure...............89,000,000
BLS figure .............155,511,000
2/3 Census figure.... 70,000,000
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TOTAL 324,511,000 or almost 10,000,000 more people than the population of the US according to the census bureau. Wonder where all the people who simply don't want to work (early retirees, stay at home moms, high school and college students over 16, the very elderly (centenarians?) who don't work and have no desire to work, those shiftless "taker" in the 47%)...gosh, add those in and we are talking 60, maybe 80 million that you picked up but the census somehow missed. Gee MM can you help us understand this???