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320M people total. 200M workforce participation rate. https://data.bls.gov/timeserie...

48M people over 65. https://www.census.gov/newsroo... 74M people under 18. https://www.childstats.gov/ame...

So you want retired people and children to work?

There are a couple of problems with using those numbers as-is.

First, merely having a job (workforce participation) tells you nothing about whether you are underemployed, whereas unemployment takes that into account.

Second, workforce participation tells you nothing about how many people were forced into retiring earlier than originally planned, but concluded that they wouldn't be able to find work, so they didn't bother. The question isn't whether anyone over 65 is working, but rather whether the number of people over 65 who are working has decreased, and whether that decrease was caused by a lack of opportunity to keep working or by having so much money that they didn't feel the need to keep working.

320M people total. 200M workforce participation rate. https://data.bls.gov/timeserie...

48M people over 65. https://www.census.gov/newsroo...
74M people under 18. https://www.childstats.gov/ame...

So you want retired people and children to work?

Is it really "white flight" or is it just changing demographics? You're not going to be able to count on whites to prop up your school averages anymore. http://www.childstats.gov/amer...

I did a quick search to see how many children there are in the United State. The first number I found was 74 million (total of all children under 18, as of 2013).

5% of 74 million is 3.7 million. Since I doubt they are giving Ritalin to toddlers (yet), this estimated number of children with ADHD is amazing close to the number who are on a prescription.

In other words, those are probably not two independently-derived numbers. They're one. There is no independent estimate of what percentage of kids have ADHD: there's only a count of how many are on the meds. This is a classic trick from _How to Lie with Statistics_: when you don't have the number you want (how many kids actually have ADHD), use the number you have (how many are on the meds) and pretend there is no distinction.

This has the side effect of "showing" (with numbers!) that the diagnostic methods for ADHD are nearly perfect. By circular logic, QED.

9 kids died in this country from malnutrition (taken from the US yearly average of 1 in 100,000 deaths per year) that day.

74mil children in america aged 0-17 http://www.childstats.gov/americaschildren/tables/pop1.asp
Assume 1/100k die per year as you say, and that malnutrition deaths are in line with overall averages.

That works out to 740/year, or closer to 2/day.

The Vatican's Catholic Church tells everyone (and I mean everyone) that the entire reason for life is to be tempted to sin, but instead to have faith in Jesus and avoid sin. Life is a test, they say, where god tests our faith in Jesus. Pass and go to heaven; fail and go to hell.

Actually, the Catholic Church teaches that reason points us towards faith (para. 36). The Church doesn't teach us to have "blind faith" in Jesus, but to use reason towards establishing faith. This is the reason why carrying a geek card and being a Catholic are not mutually exclusive, contrary to the drivel that you might see here.

The Church doesn't teach that "life is a test." Instead, the Church teaches that God gave man free will, and that you are free to allow him in your life or not, as the case may be (para. 1). It's all about choice. There is no pass/fail test. If you choose to follow God, and to live a life that fulfills the greatest of the commandments (love God and your neighbor), then the kingdom of God is yours.

It's not a cult of baby rapers, headed by an evil pope who protected (and protects) them worldwide.

I realize this is sarcasm on your part, but you might be interest in knowing that the US Dept. of Education estimates between 6% and 10% of school-aged children have been molested by teachers and other school employees. Considering there are about 74 million school-aged children in the US, I'd say the child molestation epidemic in the US public school system is a vastly larger problem than that of the Catholic Church. Maybe you should devote your energy towards that cover-up.