From: jesus475073@webtv.net   
      
   I liked this post except i deleted the pro-euthanasia parts as total   
   Kavorkianism!   
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   Group: news:alt.politics.democrat Date: Fri, Aug 12, 2011, 6:26am   
   (EDT-3) From: williamchung@hushmail.com   
   I am not going to put blame on any political party: I'm simply going to   
   state how things are today.   
      
   1) First of all, GDP has no real growth: the current growth of about 2%   
   per year is just proportional to population growth and not the result of   
   actual increase in per capita GDP.   
      
   2) If you consider the real unemployment rate, which is a combination of   
   unemployed people looking for work, unemployed people who have given up   
   looking for work, people working part-time who want a full time job, and   
   the homeless population, then unemployment is actually around 20%.   
      
   3) We get about 2.5 million new immigrants every year, so any new   
   domestic jobs created each month are cancelled out by this population   
   growth. This is why the unemployment rate   
   remains steady.   
      
   4) Millions of jobs are constantly being sent out of country because   
   people living in third world nations are willing to work for wages such   
   as $1.00 per hour, 80 hours per week, with no health benefits or any   
   other benefits, and no safety infrastructures and policies.   
      
   5) The economically disadvantaged population growth is much higher than   
   the economically advantaged population growth, increasing overall   
   poverty and public funding costs to provide services.   
      
   6) Foreign companies are making up a larger and larger percentage of the   
   international market share, while American companies are losing market   
   share.   
      
   7) With the current budget plans being pushed by Congress and the White   
   House, huge cuts will be made to Social Security, Medicare, Welfare, and   
   many other social services.   
      
    Because of the above facts, we currently have about 26 million homeless   
   people in America, and this number is going to grow by enormous amounts   
   in the next few years. So, what we need is a way to reduce the suffering   
   of all these homeless people. For example, we need to enact laws   
   protecting tent cities, allowing them to form more freely.     
      
   Keep in mind that YOU will most likely become homeless within the next   
   ten years, so you need to plan ahead!   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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