Are private employers in the United States on strike?

It appears they clearly are — and for good reason.

As in Ayn Rand’s magnum opus, “Atlas Shrugged,” the producers have had it with supporting this country’s burgeoning entitlement class, which produces little and is dependent on the largesse of a government that is putting the nation on a course to system collapse.

In turn, the dependents vote for those who provide them with entitlements, creating a vicious cycle that guarantees one-party rule and a ruinous redistribution of wealth.

Eerily, nearly half of all unemployed workers in America today (a record 46 percent) have been out of work for six months or more.

As The Wall Street Journal noted in a June 5 editorial, “It’s too bad we can’t do the Census every year, because maybe the U.S. economy would then show some jobs growth.” The reference was to a report the previous day that the economy created a net total of 431,000 new jobs in May, including 411,000 temporary Census jobs.

As any entrepreneur knows, almost everything Congress has done in recent months has made private businesses less inclined to hire new workers. For instance, ObamaCare imposes new taxes and mandates on private employers. Even with record unemployment, Congress raised the minimum wage to $7.25, pricing more low-skilled workers out of jobs.

While Congress promotes the illusion of government-creates-wealth, we say the U.S needs to get real by cutting taxes — and government.

Sadly, America is serving as a life-support system for government, when it should be the other way around. Let’s encourage real job growth — and not just in the public sector.