This is back under President Clinton days from Arkansas, by the way, and grew up in Hope, Arkansas, a very rural part of Arkansas. You know, is the idea if you can work, you should go to work. Put it in perspective. Back then, the able bodied Americans that should be able to work in 97, 89, 10 or 22,000 was about three and a half percent of them were not working. Today it's over 10%. The CBO using their numbers and you know, they either get it right or wrong or somewhere in the middle. They estimate it's almost 5 million people today in America that fit in that category. (13:13–13:25)
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Asserts that the percentage of able-bodied Americans not working has increased from about 3.5% to over 10%.
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