Joseph O. Patton: Don’t choke on that silver spoon in your mouth

  As it stands, for every job currently available in this country, there are six workers vying for it. The unemployment rate hovers at nearly 10 percent. And that figure is misleading and a woeful understatement considering it is based on the number of unemployed individuals receiving unemployment compensation. Once those individuals exhaust their benefits, they’re no longer included in the figure though they are still lacking work. That figure also fails to include someone who may work 40 hours a week but has no benefits and may earn as little as minimum wage, otherwise know as “underemployed."

  So why, oh why, do we hear the fatally flawed argument churning through talk radio and other outlets for the chronically ignorant and mean-sprited, all driven by the same, hateful, small-minded lie: “Well… those people just don’t want to work the jobs available!”