Though I agree that there are people who can work but won't work, I think this is overestimated. I think that people who feel that way generally overlook the r

Though I agree that there are people who can work but won't work, I think this is overestimated. I think that people who feel that way generally overlook the role of housewives in society. I don't know if it's still current, but I recall a few years ago seeing estimates that ~10% of all women in America were unemployed, by choice, for reasons of home-making, or whatever the most politically correct alternative of 'housewifery' is (not trying to be inflammatory, I genuinely don't know). As America has a slight gender bias towards females, that means that ~5% of the population is willfully unemployed. Unemployment is, what, 7% right now? Also, yes, I'm well aware that employed does not negate underemployed, which is where I really feel that America is suffering right now, but we're just talking about employment figures.