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America is full of ah gua lazy bastards

besotted

Alfrescian
Loyal
These ah guas just collect benefits from taxpayer money

Hope Singapore Pinkertons realise the folly of Western methods

Fuckers collect dole and system allows it

That's why America FAIL



Discouraged to Look

Published: Monday, 7 Sep 2009 | 10:53 AM ET Text Size By: Michael Luo
The New York Times

They were left out of the latest unemployment rate, as they are every month: millions of hidden casualties of the Great Recession who are not counted in the rate because they have stopped looking for work.

But that does not mean these discouraged Americans do not want to be employed.

As interviews with several of them demonstrate, many desperately long for a job, but their inability to find one has made them perhaps the ultimate embodiment of pessimism as this recession wears on.

Some have halted their job searches out of sheer frustration. Others have decided it makes more sense to become stay-at-home fathers or mothers, or to go back to school, until the job market improves.

Still others have chosen to retire for now and have begun collecting Social Security or disability benefits, for which claims have surged.
 
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