Anybody listening?

Author unknown California, New Mexico, Mississippi, Alabama, South Carolina, Illinois, Kentucky, Ohio, New York and Maine now have More People on Welfare than they do Employed! Last month, the Senate Budget Committee reported that in fiscal year 2012, between food stamps, housing support, child care, Medicaid and other benefits, the average U.S. Household below the poverty line received $168.00 a day in government support. What's the problem with that much support? Well, the median household income in America is just over $50,000,which averages out to $137.13 a day. To put it another way, being on welfare now pays the equivalent of $30.00 an hour for a 40-hour week, while the average job pays $20.00 an hour.                 Furthermore: There are actually two messages here.  The first is very interesting, but the second is absolutely astounding - and explains a lot.              A recent "Investor's Business Daily" article provided very interesting statistics from a survey by the United Nations International Health Organization.              Percentage of men and women who survived a cancer five years after diagnosis:               U.S.                    65%               England              46%               Canada               42%               Percentage of patients diagnosed with diabetes who received treatment within six months:               U.S.                     93%               England              15%               Canada               43%               Percentage of seniors needing hip replacement who received it within six months:               U.S.                     90%               England              15%               Canada               43%               Percentage referred to a medical specialist who see one within one month:               U.S.                     77%               England              40%               Canada               43%               Number of MRI scanners (a prime diagnostic tool) per million people:               U.S.                     71               England             14               Canada              18                 Percentage of seniors (65+), with low income, who say they are in "excellent health":               U.S.                    12%               England               2%               Canada               6%                 And now for the last statistic:               National Health Insurance?               U.S.                     NO               England            YES               Canada             YES              Check this last set of statistics!!              The percentage of each past president's cabinet who had worked in the private business sector prior to their appointment to the cabinet. You know what the private business sector is; a real-life business, not a government job.  Here are the percentages.                T. Roosevelt.................... 38%              Taft................................ 40%               Wilson ........................... 52%              Harding........................... 49%              Coolidge......................... 48%              Hoover............................ 42%              F. Roosevelt..................... 50%              Truman........................... 50%              Eisenhower................ .... 57%              Kennedy......................... 30%              Johnson.......................... 47%              Nixon.............................. 53%              Ford................................ 42%              Carter............................. 32%              Reagan............................ 56%              GH Bush.......................... 51%               Clinton .......................... 39%              GW Bush........................ 55%              Obama............................. 8%                This helps to explain the incompetence of this administration: only 8% of them have ever worked in private business!              That's right!  Only eight percent---the least, by far, of the last 19 presidents!  And these people are trying to tell our big corporations how to run their business?              How can the president of a major nation and society, the one with the most successful economic system in world history, stand and talk about business when he's never worked for one?  Or about jobs when he has never really had one?  And when it's the same for 92% of his senior staff and closest advisers?  They've spent most of their time in academia, government and/or non-profit jobs or as "community organizers."  They should have been in an employment line.              Conclusion? We need to make the U.S. a place where businesses can MAKE A PROFIT and employ people. We have to stop the bleed of capital, i.e. jobs, from the U.S. to overseas destinations. In other words, change the current government from one of giving our money away to keeping our money and making investment in America a profitable venture. "What's in your wallet?"