7.2% - you know why? just after 9/11 the GDP growth dropped and has been recovering since. now its back up, but this is all because of bills that the Dubya passed into law, which only the american business elite get into enjoy.
the regular working men and women benefit from this in only one way: he or she has a BETTER chance at getting a job. well, there are two and a half million people who are unemployed, and those are just the people who are registered. thats thirteen and three quarter billion dollars to pay them all for one hour of work.
according to national census, 90% of the workforce have a high school education or higher. out of that 90% only 32% have a college education.
now, lets take that percent (roughly 720,000 workers) take away 30%, 'cuz only about 70% of workers with college educations get hired annually. Now, that means you must beat the first 504,000 people that have degrees that you are competing with for that job. now let's take this even further.
don't forget about ex-convicts (all 3 million of them), plus the 4.5 million currently on probation or parole, excluding the 2.2 million behind bars as of December 02, 2003, and you have 9.7 million people last in line to get a job. suddenly things don't look so bright.
here, i'd go into war costs, and other tabs the Dubya is racking up, but i wont to save myself the hassle of people trying to blur lines.
the financial elite do not represent me or the main body of americans. a few may profit, but the economy, in the end, doesn't.
7.2% or not, U.S. economy fails.
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