"Who will drink your blood if I'm not around?" said the parasite to the host.

From Welfare to Work: What the Evidence Shows
https://www.brookings.edu/research/from-welfare-to-work-what-the-evidence-shows/

Arrests by Race and Ethnicity, 2016
https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2016/crime-in-the-u.s.-2016/topic-pages/tables/table-21

Study provides first estimate of total US population with felony convictions
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/09/170928121641.htm

Why Isn’t Automation Creating Unemployment? Research Summary 2017-1
https://sites.bu.edu/tpri/2017/07/06/why-isnt-automation-creating-unemployment/

We are the 1%: You need $34k income to be in the global elite... and half the world's richest live in the U.S.
America IS the 1%: You need just $34,000 annual income to be in the global elite... and HALF the world's richest people live in the U.S.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2082385/We-1--You-need-34k-income-global-elite--half-worlds-richest-live-U-S.html

$34,000 a year is how much an hour?
https://www.convertunits.com/salary/34000

John Stossel's Broken Window Fallacy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPmo2e-bAMQ

"A Time for Choosing" by Ronald Reagan
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXBswFfh6AY

The American Defense Budget 2017–2020
http://ndupress.ndu.edu/Publications/Article/1026968/chapter-4-the-american-defense-budget-20172020/

Intro/Outro Music: "Fling My Turds" by Red Pill Chemist
Background Music: "Khreshchatyk" by Dan Bodan. Courtesy of the YouTube Audio Library.

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