Thursday, October 28, 2010

Suburban Decay

Analysis conducted by the Brookings Institution has concluded
the suburbs are home to 1/3 of America's poor.
Since 2000 the number has risen over 37% resulting in 13.7 million people living below the poverty line.
The sharp increase in the growth of suburban poverty has more than double the urban rate,
and is even higher than the national figure of 26.5%
The number of poor living in the burbs now exceeds those in the city by 1.6 million.
I believe these numbers are symbolic of the governments efforts to destroy the middle class
and corral the majority of America into the city.
Whereby they can finance the land to corporations and foreign interests.
One needs only look towards the United Nations: Agenda 21 or the CLEAR act for proof of their desire to give suburbia the boot.

The government reports that nationally 14.3% live below the belt of poverty.
Which is roughly 43.6 million, or 1 in 7.
These numbers have been highly manipulated,
and many experts estimate that number to be much higher
So governments estimate that 20% of U.S. children live in poor environments is conservative.

The current unemployment rate sits at 17.1% on the books, once again, a conservative figure.
ShadowStats predicts the number is far closer to 22%.
There are currently 300 million Americans, 154.4 million on the workforce.
If only 10% were unemployed, approximately 15 million would be out of work.
At the height of the Great Depression in 1933, 24.9% of the work force were unemployed.
At that time there was only 123 million Americans.
24.9% of the workforce leaves 11,385,000 unemployed in 1933.
Today's number of unemployed far exceeds the depression statistics by almost double
once you ween out the cooked book figures & deal with the real data.
Additionally, the length of unemployment has reached depression numbers.

Notably what got America out of its slump during the depression
was the fact that our country was a manufacturing guru. Giants of the industry.
Today our talents have been outsourced to other countries,
we've not only given our innovations away for profit, but even used taxpayer money to fund the training necessary to get the ball rolling.
Americans of the time survived due to the fact that they were mostly self sufficient,
today we rely heavily on a network of programs in nearly every aspect of our life.

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