By Craig Andresen – The National Patriot and Right Side Patriots on cprworldwidemedia.net

According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the latest unemployment rate is at 5.3%…a figure ballyhooed by Obama, his regime and liberal/socialists from the left to the right coast.

While far too many Conservatives were busy sniping at Megyn Kelly and Fox News over last week’s debate and calling any and all who were not, as they were, blindly adhering themselves to Donald Trump just as the liberal/socialist sheep adhered to Obama in 2008 and again in 2012, a bunch of idiots…something very important took place.

On Friday…late Friday afternoon last, when all things the Obama regime doesn’t want you to know and amid the latest Trumped up distraction…the Bureau of Labor Statistics ALSO released another figure…that being the number of Americans unemployed and/or out of the workforce altogether and that number is…staggering.

Of Americans 16 years old and up…of working age…93,777,000 were unemployed and had made absolutely no verifiable attempt to find employment. Those are Americans…of working age…that have, because of the Obama economy…dropped out of the workforce.

That figure of 5.3%…that is the “official” unemployment rate which does NOT take into account those who have dropped out of the workforce. That 5.3% are those who DID look for work but remain unemployed.

The OUT of the workforce numbers…

Or the REAL unemployment figure shows clearly an increase over L:AST month’s record by 144,000 which itself was a record number that eclipsed the PREVIOUS record, set in May, of 93,194,000.

Wow.

Three months running…three new records for unemployment of those out of the workforce altogether and there’s Obama, crowing about an unemployment rate of 5.3%….a figure that is where it is ONLY because more and MORE people…more and MORE Americans…have simply given up all hope for a change in their employment status.

Let me give you the OTHER side of this 2 tailed coin.

These latest figures from the Bureau of Labor Statistics mean that the already record number of Americans applying for and receiving U.S. taxpayer funded assistance in the form of welfare and food stamps is rising to NEW record heights.

Ah…..socialism…where your every want and need is provided to you by who? The GOVERNMENT??? No…provided by the dwindling number of Americans who still have a job via their already too high taxes and you can include Obamacare in that socialist agenda too as Obamacare is THE largest tax increase in American history.

For all the liberal/socialists reading this…those who are chomping at the bit for a Hillary White House and who are giddy at distracting Conservatives while acting as debate trolls…last Friday’s dump of statistics after the media went home for the weekend, according to the U.S. Labor Department, shows workforce participation to now be at a 38 year LOW so guess what…there are now fewer people…fewer Americans paying IN to the system than there have been in nearly 4 decades.

Here’s a little something else the Obama regime and professional distractors would rather you not know…

The latest figures available for welfare recipients in the United States come from 2011 and according to the Census Bureau, Americans living in households in which someone received benefits from one or more “means-tested” government programs…including beneficiaries of public housing programs, Medicaid, “other cash assistance” programs, and the Women, Infants and Children (WIC) program as well as beneficiaries of TANF, SSI and SNAP….was at an all-time HIGH…back THEN at 108,592,000 and THAT number…in concert with the all record number of Americans who have dropped OUT of the workforce…has risen steadily since 2011.

That Census Bureau figure of 108,592,000 Americans on government assistance in 2011 comprised some 35.4% of the entire American population back THEN and by some accounts, that figure NOW is up to 45% of the American population or higher.

I know that liberals and socialists will try to counter the Census Bureau figures and attempt to state that the REAL figures for that come from HHS…Obama’s Health and Human Services division of the regime but, to be honest, that is the outfit that couldn’t even build a website.

The HHS figure of 23.1% of Americans on assistance programs in 2011 came from a very narrow criteria. As defined in their report (“Welfare Indicators and Risk Factors”), a welfare recipient is any person living in a family where someone received benefits from any of just THREE programs—Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (formerly Aid to Families With Dependent Children), Supplemental Security Income, and the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (or food stamps) and NOT from the entire range of taxpayer funded assistance programs out there.

It’s the Obama regime’s way of cooking the food stamp books and to be completely transparent…the Census Bureau’s numbers do NOT include Americans receiving Social Security, Medicare, unemployment, and veterans benefits. Once THOSE are added in…the number rose from 35.4% to 49.2% of the American population so, the Census Bureau’s number were both more comprehensive than were those provided by HHS and more accurate as well.

Look, in the first 3 years of Obama’s regime, and under the liberal/socialist agenda…U.S. taxpayer funded spending, on more than 80 low-income assistance programs, reached a staggeringly record high of 746 BILLION dollars by the end of 2011 and when one adds in the STATE spending on assistance programs…the number rises to 1.03 TRILLION dollars. Rest assured it has gone UP since those latest compiled figures were amassed.

How much was welfare spending when Obama took over in 2008? $563 billion which shows that in just a couple of short years, the Obama regime and the liberal/socialist agenda added 32% TO it and that number has climbed ever since.

That means that welfare programs, in all their various forms, account for MORE spending than social security and basic defense spending and THAT was in 2011…with Obama’s destruction of our military…the smallest Navy since 1917…the smallest Air Force since the end of WWII and all the cuts to the Army and the Marines…you can BET that welfare spending NOW has DWARFED social security and defense spending.

Obama didn’t inherit this mess…he accelerated this mess and it has not been for any reason other than getting Americans addicted to the government and by vilifying those who resist those efforts, namely Republicans who believe that welfare should be limited rather than damn near permanent…they, the liberals, court voters who believe it is easier to rely on U.S. taxpayer dollars doled out by the government than it is to become self-reliant.

Don’t expect any of this to change should Hillary or some other socialist get elected in 2013 by the liberal/socialist voters or those helping them get elected by staying home or voting for a 3rd party candidate or write in candidate…it will only get worse until we reach critical mass…the tipping point where the entire system collapses.

THIS is one of the absolute CRITICAL issues we, as Conservatives, MUST be paying attention to for if we continue to be distracted…we will ALL lose.

REMINDER!!!