Over the last 20 years it seems that more has been done to decrease a person's marketability for employment than promote it. You have background checks, credit checks. Employers can easily commit age discrimination during the background process because we have to submit our date of birth and social security number. The mere existence of these entities represents poor leadership in Washington. Get rid of these entities and some of us would not need any food stamps or other public assistance. Convicts get out of prison and are expected to rehabilitate themselves back into society. How can a convict achieve such status when he/she can't pass a stupid background check? You want people to be able to get a job. In turn you build the economy and social security fund. The politicians don’t care about this because taking action on these matters doesn’t promote their political future. Other such entities contributing to poverty and homelessness is the federalized abusive wage garnishing child support system. This system garnishes the wages of low income Americans, snatches our tax returns and stimulus checks, turns parents into criminals. Parents are not criminals! When the government garnishes our pay they control our finances, our personal economy and lastly, our lives. This system represents an abuse of power. The feds have over stepped their boundaries.

Tax payers hollering about child support not being paid. Well, what about your tax dollars going into the corrections industry? An astronomical amount of tax payer money is attributed towards the corrections industry. It’s estimated that it cost $30k per annum to care for an inmate. More than two thirds of every state’s budget is attributed towards the corrections industry. How much of our tax dollars are attributed towards the federal corrections industry? It only gets worst. I’ve often heard that the politicians only understand suicide and violence.