{"id":418,"date":"2012-04-28T18:40:59","date_gmt":"2012-04-28T18:40:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/obviousintentions.com\/BLOG\/?p=418"},"modified":"2012-04-28T18:41:37","modified_gmt":"2012-04-28T18:41:37","slug":"state-of-the-nation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/obviousintentions.com\/BLOG\/2012\/04\/28\/state-of-the-nation\/","title":{"rendered":"State of the Nation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The population of this country is a little over 300 million.<\/p>\n<p>160 million are retired.\u00a0 That leaves 140 million to do the work.<\/p>\n<p>However, there are 85 million in school.\u00a0 Which leaves 55 million to do the work.<\/p>\n<p>Of this, there are 35 million employed by the federal government, leaving 20 million to do the work.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>2.8 million are in the armed forces and working outside the country.\u00a0 Which leaves 17.2 million to do the work.<\/p>\n<p>Take from that total the 15.8 million people who work for state and city governments and that leaves 1.4 million to do the work.<\/p>\n<p>At any given time there are 188,000 people in hospitals, leaving 1,212,000 to do the work.<\/p>\n<p>Now, there are 1,211,998 people in prisons and that leaves just two people to do the work.<\/p>\n<p>You and me.<\/p>\n<p>And there you are, sitting on your ass, at your computer, reading jokes.<\/p>\n<p>Nice.\u00a0 Real nice&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><em>Editor&#8217;s Note: Yes, the numbers are a bit outdated, but it&#8217;s still funny.\u00a0 By the way, this has no political message, whatsoever!\u00a0 So, enjoy!.<\/em> 8)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The population of this country is a little over 300 million. 160 million are retired.\u00a0 That leaves 140 million to do the work. However, there are 85 million in school.\u00a0 Which leaves 55 million to do the work. Of this, there are 35 million employed by the federal government, leaving\u2026<\/p>\n<p class=\"continue-reading-button\"> <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"http:\/\/obviousintentions.com\/BLOG\/2012\/04\/28\/state-of-the-nation\/\">Continue reading<i class=\"crycon-right-dir\"><\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[180,181,182,179],"class_list":["post-418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other-stuff","tag-employed","tag-retired","tag-state-of-the-nation","tag-workers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/obviousintentions.com\/BLOG\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/obviousintentions.com\/BLOG\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/obviousintentions.com\/BLOG\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/obviousintentions.com\/BLOG\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/obviousintentions.com\/BLOG\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=418"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/obviousintentions.com\/BLOG\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":425,"href":"http:\/\/obviousintentions.com\/BLOG\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418\/revisions\/425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/obviousintentions.com\/BLOG\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/obviousintentions.com\/BLOG\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/obviousintentions.com\/BLOG\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}