Today I was watching a show based on a fictional story called "House of Cards" its becoming a really popular show about American politics and everything that comes a long with being the president of the Unites States of America.

http://house-of-cards.wikia.com/wiki/America_Works
The character that plays the President in this show created a job opportunity campaign called "America Works." Which basically promises jobs to everyone and anyone that wants to work and is capable of working. "The ultimate aim of the legislation is to create full employment across the United States, with Underwood desiring its scope to be as wide as that of the New Deal. It plans on reducing entitlements from both Social Security and welfare, instead focusing on putting Americans into full time work." This made me think about the issues that people have with the welfare system and I asked my self...

WHY ISN'T THERE ENOUGH JOBS FOR EVERYONE IN THE REAL WORLD?
Because one of the arguments that people in the welfare system or that are in unemployment is that they can find a decent job.
I found this article published on Time that explains why unemployment reached its highest percentage in 2009 since 1983...
"This is hardly news, of course. For months economists have been talking about a jobless recovery. And they point to certain factors as having contributed to the problem — from the severity of the recent recession to the so-called skills gap, a shortage of workers with the training needed to fill the jobs that are available. These factors do help explain why job losses were so bad in the first place and why the unemployment rate reached 10% in 2009, the highest level since 1983. But they don’t explain why job creation continues to be so weak."

"To get back to the level of employment before the recession — replacing the jobs that were lost and also keeping up with natural growth in the workforce — would require more than 300,000 new jobs a month through 2016. In April, by contrast, there were only 115,000. And economists question whether the current U.S. economy is able to create even 150,000 jobs a month, on average — or half the number required."
WOW!! that is some big numbers to get the job market back to how it was before the recession. 

"Much of the reduction in the unemployment rate over the past two years has come from so-called discouraged workers — people who have given up on finding a job or left the workforce for other reasons. And it’s often noted that if the percentage of the population over age 16 who are working or looking for work were the same today as at the end of the recession, the unemployment rate would be in double digits."
One of the reasons that this article mentions that is affecting the job opportunity is that since the last recession the population growth has increased a lot and the above quote says that if all the people that are actually able to work would want to work, the unemployment rate would be even worse. 
So .. Welfare programs and governmental aid to the public is necessary but maybe there could be ways in which the government can use some of the money and resources used on welfare to create jobs for America just like in the fictional show House of Cards.

http://business.time.com/2012/05/07/why-arent-there-more-jobs/