Health Care & Social Assistance Accounts for a Majority of US Job Creation for Three Straight Years.
2026 is off to a better that than 2025, assuming you believe the jobs data.
Regardless, we are in a very low job growth environment, heavily dependent on taking care of aging boomers instead of producing anything.
Healthcare and Social Assistance Month-Over-Month Change
Starting in 2024, but especially 2025, the jobs economy became totally dependent on Health Care.
Health Care and Social Assistance Detail
In 2025, there was negative net job creation six times. Health care lost jobs only once.
Fewer and fewer people are paying into the system as more and more boomers retire dependent on Medicare and Social Security.
Yet, economic illiterates are demanding Trump deport 20 million people as if there are job replacements.
The economy would immediately crash if the racist illiterates got there way because the boomers will still be here needing services.
Mass deportations would cause an immediate shortage of skilled trade like roofing, electrical, framing, tile work, mechanics, and meat packing.
There would also be an immediate shortage of non-skilled labor especially leisure and hospitality, and agriculture.
The price of labor would skyrocket and inflation along with it.
Fed In a Nasty Spot
The Fed, Congress, and Trump are in a nasty spot.
The Fed may or may not understand this setup, but Trump and Congress surely don’t.
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Price growth moderated but have input prices have rapidly increased for 21 months.
July 2, 2026: ADP Reported 98,000 New Jobs in June.
Job creation was uneven in June. Financial activities and information were among the gainers, while leisure and hospitality delivered a sixth month of weak hiring.
“The pace of hiring is telling a story of both supply and demand. We know it’s taking people longer to find work, but there also are signs of labor supply constraints in certain industries. For now, the overall effect is a slowdown in job creation,” said Dr. Nela Richardson ,Chief Economist, ADP
July 2, 2026: Jobs Market: What’s Hot, What’s Not, and What’s Shaky?
There’s some interesting changes so far this year compared to 2025.
July 2, 2026: Economy Adds Only 57,000 Jobs in June, Huge Negative Revisions
Employment dropped by 507,000. The unemployment rate fell because the labor force plunged by 720,000.
Leisure and Hospitality is no longer adding jobs according to two reports. That’s a significant change.
Economic illiterates are demanding that 20 million people be able to just walk over a river into the U.S. and then collect a Trillion dollars in free services. $30k down payments for houses, and $15k for rent. I don’t think most people really want that. But that is what happened.
GM wrote a new contract with their Mexican workers in 2025. It was $3.25 per hour. I don’t think we want that here either. What have the big home builders been paying aliens to work? Not much I bet. If you let enough people in and they are illegal, salaries will be low. Aliens don’t have much bargaining power, especially when they have entered illegally.
I don’t deny immigration is needed but I don’t think most people want uncontrolled immigration. Also, we would like to have somewhat skilled immigrants. That comes from vetting people at the border, and that benefits everyone.
The entire healthcare cost problem in the US is the Insurance companies which stand as gatekeepers between the patient and healthcare provider ~ ~ ~ syphoning off massive profits.
How much do insurance companies cost our healthcare system? 43%!
Let that sink in for a minute… 43% of every dollar spent on healthcare in the US is lost to insurance profits and inefficiencies.
By positioning themselves as gatekeepers for the payments for services, insurance companies collect a premium from all transactions within the healthcare system.
Every city has massive insurance companies buildings dominating the skyline. They hold the prime real estate because they pay huge donations to get congressmen and senators elected to protect their syphoning of money from the system.
It doesn’t take a weatherman to tell which way the wind blows.
Follow the profits!
Bad because of fraud.
https://www.city-journal.org/article/california-in-home-supportive-services-program-fraud-gavin-newsom
California’s Medi-Cal, a 70 percent federally funded state run version of Medicaid, backs an In-Home Supportive Services Program. IHSS pays family members and other individuals to provide home-based care for the elderly and disabled rather than placing them in facilities. IHSS has become the largest low-wage occupation in California, with more than 800K taxpayer-funded caregivers, offering everything from grocery shopping to personal care.
There has been an explosive growth in this occupation over the past few years. It has been estimated, IHSS has accounted for a majority of new job creation in California at a cost of $30B per year. With an estimated loss of $12B per year due to fraud. Likely subject to abuse similar to other welfare programs.
Individuals that sign up for IHSS are also coerced to enrolled in a union. These unions collect dues, then send millions of dollars to the state’s Democrat establishment. Decreasing chances of intervention by California’s Democrat majority government.
Many states have similar care programs set up by NPOs that get their funding through Medicaid.
Why can’t America figure out how to “import” skilled, self-supporting, non-ideologue workers who are net accretive to our nation and economy while filtering out those who do not meet that standard? Why do we flush America with millions who are a net drain on the taxpayer and social fabric? Is that not congress’s job to put immigration’s mission, standards and processes in place for this purpose? Are you proposing “open borders” to provide me with a bed pan as I wither?
Cool story bro
Because if you fixed the problem legislatively, why would anyone vote for Republicans? Immigration, like abortion or trans rights, is a wedge issue. It’s is not intended to be fixed, just used to blast the other party so you can get reelected.
See Harris’ bill before Congress at the end of the Biden administration, and Trump’s demand that it be voted down to keep it as an issue for the elections.
Anyone providing a purely economic reasoning for completely reshaping the culture and demographics of a nation is either a deeply sick, or deeply confused, individual.
Culture & demographics of America are hugely based on immigration! Crack a book dipshit
Ban all Mexican, Chinese and Italian restaurants! Murica!
Once again, Hispanic is not a race, racists.
some good points, but the “racist illiterates” comment was unnecessary and revealing
You appear to be literate, so I guess it’s the racist part that you found irksome?
Bosco can’t be illiterate if he read the article and then wrote the response. Your question is inane. Your insult is unnecessary and revealing.
What’s all getting “revealed” here?
Excellent post. I’ve been writing about the socialist leeches for quite some time now and now it’s all coming to fruition right on schedule. But wait till 2030 when the problem actually starts draining tax dollars, health care availability and labor availability. The real “fireworks” will start in 2030 when all boomers can ride along the socialist medicare train. Most will quit and start collecting social security so there will be tons of socialist leeches.
Either we’ll have endless stories of boomers dying alone undiscovered dead in their kitchen like the Gene Hackman story https://people.com/what-to-know-about-gene-hackman-death-11913100
or we’ll have open borders to control medicare/healthcare costs for the geezers. I guess the US government could decide to ship boomers to Africa for care since they’re deporting people there now so it’s not out of the realm of possibilities.
In any event, I won’t be here to see it but I’ll be reading stories about it all.
Got exit strategy?
alan greenspan long ago explained the problem is easily solved with opening the floodgates to young hard working educated folks. exit strategy is brilliant. i applaud you. i have multiple passports and proper plan. know matter where you go, always have an exit strategy. nothing is forever.
“I guess the US government could decide to ship boomers to Africa …”
Mars is the better play. Low-gravity environment perfect for weakening muscles (too bad it’s a permanent one-way trip). Maybe Elon could make another trillion selling that.
Spot on, Mish. For years I’ve discussed how the rise of healthcare employment is a net expense on the country. Wouldn’t we all be better off if there were no need for such workers?
Social Security was our first national level socialist experiment. It was designed and celebrated with ignorance. It’s a pay as you go system, but with an element of Ponzi in that people often collect more than they pay. Assumptions of a static world when passed were shown to be false by a mile. Birthrates changed. Life expectancy increased. This supply-demand imbalance resulted in the SocSec tax rate increasing over time from 1% to 6.2% for both employee and employer. Outright taxes were replaced with the hidden tax of inflation from taking the US Dollar off the gold standard. If allowing unskilled immigrants were a better solution, it would have been done before raising taxes and devaluing the US dollar.
Just because SocSec is near insolvency is not an absolute excuse to keep it propped up. Companies have pulled the plug on projects that no longer promise profits. Those companies can re-allocate resources to projects with better chances of success. Companies that can’t / won’t stop making bad decisions ultimately go bankrupt. Similarly, SocSec and welfare are pulling the US into insolvency, so demanding more low skilled immigrants be allowed into the US to help pay into SocSec actually makes the wound get larger. The US improves when the average skill level of immigrants exceed that of the US middle class.
There is no fixing the existing SocSec welfare system. SocSec was structurally flawed the moment President FDR signed it. To have a guaranteed payout, there must be a guaranteed contribution, which is impossible when the economy is known to fluctuate. Efforts need to be made to get the government out of the welfare industry and return it to charities that rely on volunteer workforces.
You make some good points, but not sure an implied contract with the people paying into the system can just be jettisoned. Another is the addition of disability provisions in 1956 that have been expanded several times with insufficient revenue provisions, which is a classic vote buying tactic.
another reason to vote for democratic socialist. I think it is good to get all the people hired into healthcare then pass universal heathcare without the insurance companies billing departments and all the other parasitic nonsense. In Canada you have to wait to get treatment. no doubt a problem. But a broken ankle with a 50 minute ambulance ride took about 6 hours to get set and a week to get surgery. with follow ups and physical therapy the total bill was 142 dollars CAD. for the ambulance ride and everyone pays the same. How much of the crazy cost in the usa is not medicine but the unnecessary parasites.
I was just charged $3K for a 15min ambulance ride. Absolutely bonkers. It’s nothing less than ransom.
I love a conclusion drawn from the facts. Pity your facts are limited to those that satisfy the conclusion you desired. The “total” bill was a lot more than $142 and “someone” paid it. There are serious problems with both systems but socialism won’t address the underlying problems.
“ and everyone pays the same”: In the US, it would not take long for it to get means tested.
Yes, it is a fact that the majority of poor folk in the USA are non-Hispanic white. No affirmative action programs for those folks, though.
Non-Hispanic white folks make up the majority of the poor in the USA. In Maryland, our house cleaners were Hispanic. In South Carolina, they are white. Likewise landscapers.
As someone who lives in the state you’re talking about, you’re completely wrong. Do you think at all before you utter shit this dumb?
Project much?
SC, my home in the 90s, is a grifter, welfare state that gets way more from the FEDS than they remit. total welfare queens. even the wealthy folks like me who lived south of broad street in charleston
Yeah sure Mish, I really want some unlicensed illiterate illegal wiring my house. 🙄
Stupid take
I assume when someone shows up to your house to do work if they’re not white enough you just send them on their way and do without. Seems impractical given the current demographic death spiral and all the people that are doing construction jobs across America.
Nice try to use wiring as a cover for your blatant racism.
Thank you for staying on this, Mish. I see from some of the remarks that there are readers who apparently think health is the product of choice of lifestyle. Some degree of choice may play a role but clearly the choices of diet and exercise are cost-prohibitive for a great many working Americans. As is the cost of health insurance.
My husband and I are elderly and yes, we do use more healthcare service than when younger. Many of the actual providers are clearly foreign-born. Anyone who has had to make use of an urban ER can see how poorly the delivery of chronic disease management is done here, primarily because the poorer working class Americans do not have healthcare coverage through their employment and cannot afford the exorbitant premiums of comprehensive coverage, even through the APA. If they qualify for Medicaid, they may or may not be able to get that through the exchange, depending on their residence. And should their income rise or fall during the year, their coverage will wax or wane.
For the elderly, Medicare does not cover long term care in a facility. Home health is not nursing care.
The problem is not a bunch of lazy fat people who don’t want to take care of themselves. The problem is a growing group of very wealthy people who believe they are entitled to profit at the expense of the public well-being–these are the true pigs in the trough.
good points. but like most complicated things in sociology, there are many factors. i’d suggest both groups are to blame. the profiteers feeding junk food to kids who grow up to be obese. and also the people themselves. some folks in poor hoods keep fit. many become obese. nothing in life is so easy to explain away. anthropology 101. back to basics.
If you are old and need long-term care, then you should give serious consideration to ending it all. Laying in a bed, drugged out, staring almost mindlessly at a TV all day for the last 3, 6, 9 12 or however many remaining months you have left benefits no one.
If Americans were more health conscious it would help this situation. We are a nation of two-ton Tonys and Tonettes who can’t control their gluttony. I graduated high school in 1963, the linebackers were about the same weight as the average American female. Shameful.
Much of the US obesity problem rests with American business ethics, less with the discipline of the population. Since the 1970s the American food industry has been infiltrating the US food supply with high fructose corn syrup, a highly fattening and somewhat addictive sweetener that is to a large extent responsible for the US obesity epidemic. Added profit for the agricultural and food industry with costs borne by consumers and the US health system.
Check the contents of the foods you buy. Some variety of corn sweetener is almost always among the top ingredients. I bought sauerkraut recently that tasted like cotton candy. Gross. Sure enough, high fructose corn syrup was the second ingredient, after cabbage. Fructose (also called corn sweetener and other names) is now ubiquitous in the US food supply.
That is called a rationalization. There is plenty of healthy whole foods available. People refuse to exert a little energy preparing healthy food or cultivating a garden. Instead, they plant their ample rear in front of a sports event and dine on wings and chips or burgers or whatever tasty crap they love. The same with exercise, they don’t care to break a sweat or move off the coach. We have a shameful, lazy, population and blaming it on food additives doesn’t get it for me.
Believe what you wish. The science says otherwise.
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4496733/
https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/is-fructose-the-unifying-factor-of-all-mechanisms-underlying-obesity
https://www.foxnews.com/health/common-sweetener-may-trigger-fat-buildup-ways-experts-didnt-expect
Why does anyone eat what the not food industry makes? It’s unhealthy and more expensive. So, dint blame the industry, but the culture which was unable to even create a cuisine of its own.
When I go back to my home state (red as hell) I am amazed by how fat the people are. Ranchers who haven’t seen their belt buckle in decades. Farm wives who have obviously eaten several tons of Hostess Cupcakes at the local truck stop. And the policemen and deputies? Lol. They don’t carry concealed handguns, but a fat roll has them covered up.
Shopping at whole Foods is a different experience. I feel like the people are from a different galaxy than the typical prole.
It is so expensive to shop there it’s referred to as “Whole Paycheck”. Quite a different demographic than you will find at a Wal-Mart.
Take a few minutes to google “The Baumol Effect”. This issue of increasing costs in service sector employment is an especial killer for the US. Americans are exceptionally conditioned by media to accept government and corporate corruption. We have an exceptionally corrupt government, medical system, military industrial complex and financial system. This means increasing costs for things that add little or no value to our lives. And there is nothing we can do about it because TINA. The American people are not just conditioned to accept corruption, they have become fundamentally corrupt themselves.
You imply that the USA is unique in this regard. Americans should get out more. They are not alone.
I’m implying that there was a time when these things would have been unacceptable to the American people. But now they are.
I strongly feel that this age of disappointment in this country is strongly related to this healthcare issue. We are having to increasingly spend our meagre incomes on things that don’t provide us any sense of joy. In the ’60’s you spent your money on cool new cars, boats, houses, vacations, and other fun stuff. Today way spend that income on health insurance, property insurance, gasoline and electric bills, HOA fees, property taxes, auto insurance and lots of stuff that is just a cost of doing business. Even worse, each of these things has a ton of complexity associated with it forcing us to spend our time dealing with those complexities instead of enjoying life.
This must be a youngster posting. I’m 81, I grew up in the 60’s and 50’s. We didn’t spend our money on “cool stuff”. It was called survival for most not fun. No offense intended, but this post is nonsense.
most amerikans post ww2 have led fluffernutter lives. nihilists who have no qualms in bombing the poorest people on the planet. all for the pursuit of shelf space for MICC bases and soda pop and oil and Ijunk . you wonder why amerikans crave fentanyl?
I was a kid in the ’60’s. We had a boat, a mustang convertible, tons of fishing and hunting equipment, and often cruised around the country in our VW van. That on my father’s $4000/year salary as a cop.
“Never look back unless you are planning to go that way”
–Henry David Thoreau
Big Thoreau fan.
$4,000 plus what he made on the side.
The Fun Shortage Is Real, and It’s Making America MiserableWith fewer places to relax and socialize, and steeper prices for entry, having fun is quantifiably harder than it used to be.
Why Hotels, Theme Parks and Summer Camps Are Harder to Access – Bloomberg
Minimum wage was $1 in 1967. Don’t believe everything you think.
Been there. When I was in the Army it was 3 dollars a day. Roughly 90-100 bucks a month. Not much fun there! The high school and college freshmen are apparently here.
And insurance was always optional, now it’s legally or financially required.
My 18-year old just got accepted to state college on a full ride scholarship for a 4-year nursing program. Salaries in my state for this degree average about $100k. So yes it’s a serious transfer of wealth from older generations. But it’s also a hands-on career that ai and robotics cannot easily replace. It’s bad that this is where we are, but I’ll be damned if my kids will be the ones to suffer for it.
Nursing is a great career; I have immense respect for these people. However, it’s tough, I’ve met a ton on nurses who can’t handle it after they get out of their twenties. Good luck for the kid.
Congrats, Phil! I hope your child finds it rewarding on both levels. Shift work is difficult, as is being on your feet a lot. Nurses need to make a conscious effort to eat properly. Nurses are generally humble, salt of the earth people. I’m sure you’re proud.
There is more to it. The boomers are holding up jobs with their health issues. Also a good many of them have retirement accts. 491 k and such and are able and willing to buy stuff they do not need.
Our labor force is getting hammered by ai/robots: automation etc. not to mention a good number of the worlds population are willing to work harder for less wages than we are.
Economic illiterate pipes in here with one word – ROBOTS! 😁
Getting rid of to be superfluous human workers, starting with those who should not be in the country in the first place, will make it easier as robots take their jobs. If these soon to be superfluous workers are no longer in the country, then we won’t need to provide food and social support services for them, as we will have to do for citizens.
Lol.
who should not be in the country in the first place
we are all anchor babies in the eyes of the Iroquois and Navajo…….
It’s your property only when and if you can defend it from outsiders.
Remember that over the next decade when all the boomers drop like flies. Lol.
Do I detect a note of smug glee in that comment? I do “love”that growing attitude of “kill the boomers and take their stuff”. I was speaking of a country’s claim on land but with the rise of DSA thugs, defending your property at the barrel of a gun might be in the cards. Let’s see…looking up plans for Marvin Heemeyer’s KillDozer. /sarc
Whenever I want to know what a complete idiot thinks, there you are with your nonsense.
How does the dirt taste ostritch?
The monopolistic socialized gov/med/edu/insuro cartels are most of the economy and will keep growing along with inflation.
The monopolistic socialized education cartel that puts you in debt to get a very basic degree you absolutely need to work most jobs? I see a problem with those words.
Mish
You are right this is evidence of a big problem. The us is continually and increasingly consuming more than it produces. At a summary level it shows up in the huge trade deficit and budget deficits. This is unsustainable, meaning at some point it will end. The longer the pain is put off the more painful it will be. Once most of our assets are either owned by or mortgaged to foreigners and they stop loaning us more money the sh will hit the fan. This years little bout of inflation will be nothing compared to the serious bad times. No politicians are willing to take action and I know of no major economists even calling for action. Sure it will be painful but the longer we wait the worse it gets.
Like so many others, your are lost in 1970’s thinking. This ain’t then!
As long as we can swindle them into buying waaaaay overly inflated stocks, it all works out on paper until they try to collect value from their holdings.
Electrician is a skilled trade, so that’s one.
Meatpackers? Like the ones at Chicago Union Stockyards 125 years ago? You mean “the sticker” guy?
“…skilled trade like roofing, electrical, framing, tile work, mechanics, and meat packing.”
Roofing, framing, tile work and meat packing are not skill trades… and I’ve done them,, monotonous is a better description… now electrical and mechanic take some smarts and understanding of how things work..
And that is why they will be replaced with robots soon. There is nothing special about most blue-collar jobs. What has been stopping faster deployment of robots is nothing more than cost and those costs are declining fast.
Real wide-spread usable robots are still a few decades off. The reason is a lack of sensors that can truly mimic the way humans see/hear/smell/feel the world. Folks are trying to make humanoid robots because the world is built for humans, so a human formed robot makes sense. But without sensors that can perfectly match human senses, you have to understand how to modify robot behavior to account for the differences. We’re not there yet, but slowly getting closer.
robots have been taking factory jobs for decades. The human form robot is the least useful 25 years ago I worked in manufacturing and 40 % of the workforce was gone in a couple of years because robots replaced them and productivity doubled twice as many batteries with 60% of the workforce. Onshoring manufacturing will require scientist and engineers not factory workers. the 60s and 70s are not coming back. We should be focused on education but that is a low priority if not an evil to this . “Smart people dont like me” administration
Yes, but. Robots in top-level manufacturing facilities can be highly designed for specific applications. Service side applications like nursing are going to have be far more generic, just because the industrial engineering skills and knowledge generally don’t exist.
Here are some generic, humanoid form robots actually working at a BMW plant! The short videos are pretty cool.
I’m not sure what you mean by “usable” robots but they are a lot closer than decades away! Try 1-3 years.
Did you read my posted article here about GM replacing 1000 blue-collar union workers with 50 robots?
You likely missed this article. This will significantly accelerate deployment and spread of robots into real world work, whether in industry or in the home.
How can you downvote reality?
I have similar thoughts regarding “ healthcare“ as a driving engine of job growth. The med school system in the US does their very best to turn out as few doctors as possible to keep the demand high. Most of the growth in the medical industry is in very low pay services, home healthcare, and administrative. And much of the energy of that care is spent on a segment of the population that has stopped working, is no longer producing or earning, and the medical industry is trying to get their handson some of their accumulated assets before they die. (Obvious exceptions for diseases affecting young people, cancer research – which is making tremendous strides mostly at the hands of the drug companies.) I think much of the improvement in “health” can be attributed to people eating better, eating less, and exercising more as they age. Much of the “growth” in healthcare is unfortunately wasted on aging people as they approach their end. Not a great long-term pursuit to grow labor and capital.
Yes, thanks
When you are 75 years old, I wonder if you will still think healthcare on your behalf is “wasted?”
The problem is not adding healthcare providers — most of the additions are not patient-facing. The problem is the costs and the insurance system and many many other vectors. Healthcare is one of the rackets.
As for me, I’m closing in on 75, and hope to avoid contact with the healthcare sector as much as possible — my GP retired 12 years ago and I have yet to meet the replacement. Convinced by many examples around me that taking meds is the worst thing, unless you somehow need an anti-biotic.
If you are paying for it from your own money it’s not wasted, it’s you deciding what to do with your wealth.
On the other hand spending a lot of public money on your care is definitely something that has to be limited at some point. Remember for most people (ie ones not chronically ill from a young age), 90% of the lifetime spending on healthcare happens in the last 6 months to 1 year of life. That can’t continue.
Most U.S. doctors are quietly using this AI tool. Few patients know about it.
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/openevidence-ai-doctor-medical-physician-login-app-what-npi-uptodate-rcna341064
I’m glad they are using it. I just went to my GP for the first time; he’s a smart young guy at a major teaching hospital. He couldn’t figure out what my problem was but told me to come back in a month if it was still an issue. I just went on google AI and was given a really plausible explanation and home treatments that are already helping. I’ll tell the GP when I go in next week (if I don’t just cancel).
I have run into this before. ALWAYS prepare for an MD visit in advance and query AIs about symptoms. That way, you can prompt the MD.
And if you take any medical tests, run the results through an AI for an English interpretation and discussion.
Yes, I have run relatives’ medical results through AI. It was hugely helpful. I was really skeptical about using AI at all (I like to understand things myself), but the results were just to complicated for me to interpret on my own in the time frame I had.
That’s a quality article from NBC News!
This statistic is particularly impressive:
Serving in the US Navy showed me first-hand that no first-class society can exist without some kind of permanent underclass living in the shadows to do the dirty work. In Singapore, for example, they seem to “enlist” Filipinos, Malays and Indians, while here in the US we seem to have found a much “messier” system of “tolerating” illegal migrants from Mexico (now El Salvador, Honduras…), instead. I guess our “solution” lets us sleep better at night knowing that there are no (official) “second-class” citizens here in America, even though of course there are and there will always have to be. Ironically, in America the members of that second-class often enjoy benefits that a regular American could only dream of, and that’s the part that makes our “system” so different (and very offensive to many who pay taxes). I only mention this here because I am witnessing that the medical needs of the aging Boomers seems to be creating a influx of nursing help form places like the Philippines, and that’s starting to remind me of what I saw in Singapore and elsewhere. The difference though is that I believe that these nurses aren’t paid much differently to “American” nurses and aren’t denied any rights…things that will probably make that system unsustainable in the long run in my opinion. It’s a sucky thing to say, but traveling the world has demonstrated to me that for the “underclass” math to pencil, that shadow population pretty much does need to exist on a separate economic/civic plane. Since we are probably never going to (formally) do anything like that, I expect problems to materialize pretty soon. Robots to the rescue?
Such as? What benefits exactly are illegal immigrants doing any of the 3D (Dirty, Dangerous, Demeaning) jobs getting that the “legitimate” Americans “could only dream of”?
Come to Los Angeles, they are eligible for so much free healthcare and everything else, it’ll make your head spin.
Again, what benefits are they getting that “legitimate” Americans “could only dream of”?
Because “Medi-Cal” is not restricted to illegals. It is a program accessible by all low-income California residents. And they do have to pay into the system. I am not aware of any “freebies” that are being given out to illegals that regular Americans don’t have access to, but I look forward to being educated in the matter.
So I am still waiting to learn about this “gravy train” for illegals that you speak of.
Didn’t you hear him? Sooooooo MUCH! It’s unbelievable! He can FEEL it!
Seems you got triggered by the word “illegal” or just want to bleed your leftist, socialist BS all over us.
Here in CA, the “well-off” (I won’t limit this to only white people) guilt at their success, whether through being in the right company at the right time and profiting off of stock options, or being in the right industry (Tech or Bio), or having bought a house at the right time, is incredibly strong, leading to a plethora of free support services for those on the lower end of the economic spectrum (whether they be illegal/undocumented or not), homeless, drug addicts, mentally compromised or just plain lazy. are made immediately available without any waiting period or residency requirement..
Come to my county of San Mateo, CA, where the median home price is $2 million! You can immediately be put on a free health plan, given shelter, food, spending money and full support services. You don’t need an address or a job.
And during Covid, the next county north of me, San Francisco was putting up addicts in hotels AND delivering drugs and alcohol directly to their rooms to not only supposedly prevent the spread of Covid (because addicts don’t give a crap one way or the other) but also because they felt it would be too much stress to force addicts to get clean during the pandemic!
There is no shortage of NGO “services”, all operating with money that doesn’t have to be accounted for (Governor Newson is unable to document where 24 billion in money meant to alleviate our homeless problem went) and there has not been any reduction in the homeless population over the past years despite all the money dumped into services for them.
It seems that you get triggered when someone asks for empirical evidence or just want to bleed your racist, xenophobic fascist BS all over us.
This was the claim:
“in America the members of that second-class often enjoy benefits that a regular American could only dream of”
With ” illegal migrants from Mexico (now El Salvador, Honduras…)” being that “second class”, according to the author.
I requested an example of illegals getting “benefits that a regular American could only dream of” as per the claim, and I am still waiting.
All I got so far is some vague “come to L.A” and completely unrelated anecdotal bullshit from you, who decided to butt in without adding anything of value for some reason, as usual for the typical Trump supporter.
Look up the word “sealioning”.
“sealioning”
Exactly. Almost every time I post here, I’ve provided links to official government data sources, which these bastards just ignore. My favorite was Orange County illegal migrant statistics from the Orange county Board of Education. They said I was bullshitting before I posted the links, and then after I posted the links, they still said I was lying when the actual statistics were even worse than what I quoted, beforehand. It was hilarious.
I don’t see a link here at all, we’re you going to provide the evidence or not?
LOL! I provided it at the time, Phil. When are you running for mayor?
Unfortunately, these people that don’t actually live here in California don’t believe it. I love how they tell me that my lived experience is bullshit. I suggest they move to California for two years, and then recount their experiences. The state is corrupt as F**k, and all California cares about is funneling in those federal dollars, whatever it takes.
Move here to Florida. Illegals get the same lack of any services that the rest of us legals don’t get.
And yet, isn’t there an initiative underway to eliminate property taxes as a source of revenue? That should put a further dent in the ability to provide services needed. FREEDUM!
Yes. The state government is seeking to radically reduce the taxes that local government depends on. None of the taxes the state depends on, of course. It will result in a massive reduction in police, fire, emergency medical, and infrastructure maintenance, all services provided by local governments. The population will vote in favor unquestionably. When they lose those services, they will blame their local governments of course, not the state. So big win for Tallahassee Republicans, land developers and real estate agents. Housing prices will march higher and young folks will be locked out of the market even worse.
It saddens me that the rich 1% have convinced the lower 99% that state provided benefits like free healthcare is a bad thing. How stupid are we?
How selfish is our society? We have been told that we too can be rich so no need to provide for others, they will become rich or get what they deserve. This has become one very mentally sick country.
It’s past time to consider changing our form of government. The nearly unfettered system of capitalism has failed for at least half if not much more than half of our population and it is time to change.
Your best course of action will be to vote to elect an AI when they are determined by SCOTUS to be “people” and will therefore be able to run for elected office.
Humans have too big a stake in maintaining things as they are.
25 years ago hospitals had large numbers of nurses from the Philippines. The trend started long before that. The Philippines trains large numbers of skilled nurses for export to foreign countries.
Funny I always thought they were exporting a large number of massage parlor workers, strippers etc. The kind Robert Kraft likes to visit.
Ah, I remember my youth and many a pretty filipina…
Philandering is popular in Texas too. Just ask Jerry Jones.
Yes, but I believe that since we don’t believe in a two-tier wage/rights system here (aka no “Roman/Asian-style” servant underclass) there will probably be a mathematical problem in the future once the boomer need for “server bodies” really goes ballistic. Seems to me like the only solutions will be the money printer and/or robots. Curiously, the two things the politician class are really championing.
We exported everything else in the name of capitalism?
The only thing that isn’t shrinking are Services and healthcare (and hair dressers) are some of the most inelastic and hard to export.
Hard labor that can be shipped out, will be. That’s how economics works. And tariffs have hurt the USA manufacturing because raw materials were hit, making even exports more expensive.
Not sure what happens next. We are very dependent on efficient trade.
The US “exported” mostly the production of low-margin, low-value goods, while production shifted to high-value, high-margin goods. The USA has never produced as many semi-conductors, fiber optics, aerospace components & aircraft, high end medical equipment, composite materials, batteries, heavy engines, high precision industrial machines, etc…as it does now.
The idea that having millions of Americans employed at US factories making low value items such as nail trimmers and ironing boards is a desirable thing shows a clear misunderstanding of economics.
Division of labor and leveraging comparative advantages across countries is a good thing.
You are absolutely right.
Unfortunately I don’t think we have an administration that understands this fundamental of economics
100% correct we are not going back to the 60s. I did those jobs for decades and would not wish that on anyone.
Paraphrasing anothers quote
Nothing in DC happens by accident
Seemed accurate then
Seems Accurate now