As much as I wanna hate big corporations,(and I do!) US has the highest corporate tax rate in the world right now (35%) lower than drastically and you will see companies come back home, problem is our debt is too high to cut them. When you compete on a global scale, the lowest common denominator wins, the politicians on both sides put in policies that are bad for the economy but it gets the re-elected. Social security is nothing more than a transfer of wealth from the young and poor to the old and wealthy but it gets politicians elected. Young people think that money will be around when they retire but its just not true. Social security is basically a legalized ponzi scheme. When it takes in less than it dishes out as it does now, it will soon collapse unless you believe all the propaganda and the fake cooked books.

Here in Belgium they found a better way to reduce unemployment : they make stricter rules for unemployed, so many of they get expelled from the statistics and have to rely on social security aid. And even despite that, unemployment started to rise again....