Millions Aren’t Working And It’s Not What You Think | Nick Eberstadt From #478 | The Way I Heard It

Because people are realizing you weren’t put on this earth simply to pay taxes and die. Our government (no matter who is in charge) hates you and sees you as nothing more than a piggy bank that needs to be hammered open. They prefer to send our hard earned money over seas or to any group other than hard working Americans who did “the right thing” in life. It’s a scam. Also the middle class (as always) are the ones to feel the pinch the most.

Once Politicians start going to prison for corruption (which there are many RED and BLUE), and then all the people committing all the FRAUD in all the states draining all OUR TAX dollars are held accountable, ONLY then maybe, just maybe, some of these MANY who left the workforce long ago might consider returning to a more FAIR and America 🇺🇸 First system! ❤

I loved to work on computers and program them. It was my dream to be a software engineer and I got my degree in Computer Science in the 1990's. I am not a software engineer today. Why? H1-Bs. They drove me out of my career and I had to find another industry to work in. The problem isn't that the US doesn't have good computer programmers or engineers or men that want to work. It is that the US immigration system (both legal and illegal) has driven us out of our preferred industries and jobs we want to do.

my govt taxed me extra for not making enough to afford health insurance

It's waking up to know you were told one thing but ended up getting another.

The divorce generations really impacted people today.

Talk to the employers that are suffering to hire and ask them about their turnover rate. The manufacturer that I last worked for lost 80% of its skilled maintenance staff over a year and a half. They way management and ownership talked to us and literally told us that we are replaceable. They are now staffed at 200% of where they were when I left and the people I supported, have been begging me to come back for 3 years now. Its still an absolute mess with exponential down time.

I grew up in a small town in the 60's and 70's and it was definitely a high trust society. We didn't lock our doors at night and the car keys were usually in the ignition. There were certain expectations and standards like respecting your elders, learning how to repair things instead of buying new, working hard, not wasting money on wants vs. needs (depression era parents, dad was a WWII combat vet), getting married, raising a family and volunteering in the community. Local politicians and other officials actually helped residents solve issues, not make them worse. Our federal congressman lived in our middle class neighborhood and you could communicate with them easily (the ratio of congressman to constituent was much lower). Society was much more civil toward law enforcement and the police would bend over backwards to prevent a kid from getting a criminal record. I got a few lectures from cops instead of a record and I'm extremely grateful for that because my adult life would've been vastly different. It wasn't perfect, we had Vietnam going on, radical hippies, almost regular bombings in cities, the occasional riots but even as a child growing up I could see the standards of behavior degrading. Gov't and society are much more adversarial than they used to be. With all the good and bad of the 60's and 70's I'd take that back in a heartbeat over what we have today. I'm forever grateful that I was born in the post WWII era in America, as far as I'm concerned it was the best time and place in human history to be alive.

Deep diving into welfare scams in 2026 without a mention of immigration, illegal or not, is pretty wild.

I'm sick of paying taxes and having nothing at the end of the week just to survive.