| | | I deplore articles like this that only tell half the story and lump in men and women who worked all their lives and were forced at gunpoint to pay into the social systems. They make working men and women sound like they are on the take. It makes my blood boil. My inter-laced comments are in red...
Census: 49% of Americans Get Gov’t Benefits; 82M in Households on Medicaid
cnsnews.com
excerpt:
In the fourth quarter of 2011, 49.2 percent of Americans received benefits from one or more government programs, according to data released Tuesday by the Census Bureau.
In total, the Census Bureau estimated, 151,014,000 Americans out of a population then estimated to be 306,804,000 received benefits from one or more government programs during the last three months of 2011. Those 151,014,000 beneficiaries equaled 49.2 percent of the population.
This included 82,457,000 people--or 26.9 percent of the population--who lived in households in which one or more people received Medicaid benefits.
Also among the 151,014,000 who received benefits from one or more government programs during that period: 49,901,000 who collected Social Security;
Whoa! Stop right there! How many of the 49,901,000 social security recipients are illegal aliens and/or people who have never worked, and how many are working U.S. citizens who paid into the program during their entire lives, as forced at gunpoint to contribute by the government?
Okay, continue...
49,073,000 who got food stamps; 46,440,000 on Medicare;
Whoa! Stop right there! How many of the 46,440,000 Medicare recipients are illegal aliens and/or people who have never worked, and how many are working U.S. citizens who paid into the program during their entire lives, as forced at gunpoint to contribute by the government?
Okay, continue...
23,228,000 in the Women, Infants and Children program, 20,223,000 getting Supplemental Security Income;13,433,000 who lived in public or subsidized rental housing; 5,098,000 who got unemployment; 3,178,000 who got veterans' benefits; and 364,000 who got railroad retirement benefits.
Whoa! Stop right there! Veterans benefits and railroad retirement benefits are EARNED benefits for people who worked! Get it? EARNED! People worked for and earned those benefits!!!
G**-damnit it makes my blood boil to read this kind of trash that lumps in working men and women with illegals, worthless imbeciles, lazy deadbeats, and leftist filth who leech from the system.
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