If there was one thing I could get you to understand it would be that any tax on business is going to be paid by the people. It is merely a slight of hand trick used by pols to raise YOUR taxes. Businesses do not pay taxes - they collect taxes from their customers. If you could make the intellectual connection that government is turning your anger away from themselves by making corporations the object of your blind fury many things would become clear to you about the economy.
Allowing emotion to overrule reason is a serious problem on the Left. You almost never see the the kind of behavior or language used by your heroine Randi Rhodes (or whichever Air America hostess it is) being used on the Right. But on the Left there is a never ending parade of outraged and outrageous people obsessed by emotional reaction rather than well considered thought. I mention this because I really hope you will give careful consideration to my opening paragraph in this reply.

Reaganomics all over again. Tax the poor. Give the tax break to the rich. Especially if you outsource the jobs to India and have Apu trying to sell you timeshares. Worst, the big oil companies got huge breaks and we are paying almost $4.00 a gallon for gas. What do you think?

You're failing to grasp that the economy is circular. Industry creates jobs and wealth - government taxes industry so that it can throw money around to bums, support its own greed and solidify its electorate - in order to pay its taxes industry is forced to raise prices and lay off employees - as a result more "poor people" are created for the government to support. There are only four steps in this mad circle but something tells me you won't be able to grasp the concept anyway. Not because you lack the smarts but because you are completely invested in your narrow point of view.
Poor people need to bear their share of responsibility in this downward spiral, so do people who push for socialism as you do. But rationally speaking the main cause of our present social decline is government's incompetence and thievery.

You say absolutely nothing about what causes these statistics. All you've got is your insanely myopic focus on Bush as the cause of all things evil.
Government give-aways and our progress toward socialism are what make it acceptable for everyone who's willing to stoop to beg and lie to get on the dole. I forgot the exact percentage but some 35% of Michiganders are now on Medic-aid.
Welcome to soviet USA. You're getting what you wanted.

10% is quite a lot, how is that possible? Isnt there any kind of good social security system? I know we always complain here for the taxes we pay but the minimum amount of social security should be enough here to live (not easy to do btw but if you really need it is possible)

Has anyone called it a recession yet? here we're wondering when someones going to admit its a depression. Add the floods and snow and twisters and fires and drought and.... I'm starting to think god doesn't love you guys. All that praying doesn't seem to have helped.

Thanks!

ouch...

Living in this country is getting scarier and scarier!

In this county of Ohio, the unemployment rate is twice that of the nation. It is near 10 percent.

Love the post! The statistics are frightening though.

The whole food stamp program is a mess--as a 'poor' person I get $10 a month--hasn't changed since 2000--I manage to eat very well without the stamps but how does a poor person survive on that???
Wonder how much the average person who gets food stamps in Ohio actually gets??

Bush should have become one of the strippers.He moves.
The Chippendale maybe could have used him.