| | | There is a new article (below) that details the deep, dark hole of our welfare nation. Leftists and the owners of large corporations strongly support redistributing wealth from taxpayers in various forms as welfare, as shown in the article. Democrats and RINOs ensure that it happens. I don't know how the Tea Party can ever stand up to them, when conservatives are so vastly outnumbered. The system will have to collapse under its own weight as fewer and fewer people actually work.
Anyway, here is the article...
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Report: U.S. Spent $3.7 Trillion on Welfare Over Last 5 Years
weeklystandard.com
excerpt:
New research from the Republicans on the Senate Budget Committee shows that over the last 5 years, the U.S. has spent about $3.7 trillion on welfare. Here's a chart, showing that spending versus transportation, education, and NASA spending:
"We have just concluded the 5th fiscal year since President Obama took office. During those five years, the federal government has spent a total $3.7 trillion on approximately 80 different means-tested poverty and welfare programs. The common feature of means-tested assistance programs is that they are graduated based on a person’s income and, in contrast to programs like Social Security or Medicare, they are a free benefit and not paid into by the recipient," says the minority side of the Senate Budget Committee.
"The enormous sum spent on means-tested assistance is nearly five times greater than the combined amount spent on NASA, education, and all federal transportation projects over that time. ($3.7 trillion is not even the entire amount spent on federal poverty support, as states contribute more than $200 billion each year to this federal nexus—primarily in the form of free low-income health care.) |
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