This Chart Showing Welfare Dependency Will Ruin Your Day
- Posted on August 8, 2012 at 4:28pm by
Becket Adams
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The Senate Budget Committee Republican staff under Ranking Member Jeff Sessions [R-AL] on Wednesday released this depressing chart:
Are you serious? Over 110,000,000* in the U.S. are currently receiving some form of government welfare?
“The federal government administers nearly 80 different overlapping federal means-tested welfare programs. Social Security and Medicare are not part of this category and not included in the figures in this chart,” a statement released on Wednesday by Sen. Sessions’ office reads.
“[S]ince 2000 Medicaid has increased from 34 million people to 54 million in 2011 and the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP, or food stamps) from 17 million to 45 million in 2011,” according to a statement released on Wednesday by Sen. Sessions’ office.
But here’s our favorite part: “Spending on food stamps alone is projected to reach nearly $800 billion over the next decade.”
Oh, $800 billion. Great, that’s, uh, swell.
The statement continues:
These figures include not only citizens, but non-citizens as well. For instance, USDA has acknowledged a formal partnership with Mexico to boost food stamp enrollment amongst non-citizens, migrant workers and foreign nationals. In a ‘radio novela’ USDA even depicted an individual who resisted food stamp enrollment (saying her husband earned enough to take care of them) but who was successfully pressured into enrollment.
Yep. Non-citizens enrolled in the Mexico-U.S. food stamp program. That is all.
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*From Sen. Sessions Office: “These figures do not include other means-tested benefits such as the Earned Income Tax Credit or the health insurance premium subsidies included in the President’s health care law.”
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Comments (262)
OldGeek72
Posted on August 8, 2012 at 5:04pmPicking on my president like this…. He LOVES the poor! Can you name one single president that’s done more to drag so many millions of people down to the getto level in just a few short years just so he can LOVE them? Be happy there with the food stamps, just remember that you didn’t print that.
Re-elect him so he can open the borders and add tens of millions more to the getto. It amazes me that people can’t see this for the SLAVERY it is.
Detroit paperboy
Posted on August 8, 2012 at 5:07pmWelfare,,,,it’s not just for breakfast anymore, se habla espanol…
dublinthewagons
Posted on August 8, 2012 at 5:22pmBummer has shared the wealth with his cronies and left us holding the mop.
Report Post »loriann12
Posted on August 8, 2012 at 5:36pm@Detroit paperboy
Report Post »Yo Hablo Espaniol, un poquito.
joe.r.piehole
Posted on August 8, 2012 at 5:48pmHello idiot Blaze posters.
A spike in government assistance is to be expected, especially since THE POLICIES OF THE GEORGE W BUSH’S ADMINISTRATION CAUSED THE GLOBAL ECONOMIC COLLAPSE THAT IS OVERWHELMINGLY RESPONSIBLE FOR THE FINANCIAL BLIGHT OF MILLIONS OF AMERICANS.
YOU IMBECILES.
Report Post »MeteoricLimbo
Posted on August 8, 2012 at 5:59pm@joe.r.piehole
Report Post »All Caps? When will you be graduating from Jr. High? I am just curious.
NHwinter
Posted on August 8, 2012 at 5:59pmThis is Obama’s plan for winning the election and bringing America to her knees.
Report Post »dublinthewagons
Posted on August 8, 2012 at 6:17pmHello: JOE.R.PIEHOLE. if you close your piehole the crap will stop running out. Moron
Report Post »TheLeftMadeMeRight
Posted on August 8, 2012 at 6:27pmHey piehole (great job on a perfectly self-descriptive handle)
So why hasn’t your MESSIAH Obama been able to fix it? Please find a new line, the blame Bush thing has been used up, again by your buddy Obama. What a dolt you are.
Report Post »turkey13
Posted on August 8, 2012 at 6:28pmThe USDA is encouraging Americans to enroll for foodstamps through the SNAP programs. SNAP recommending that local SNAP offices throw parties and organize games, food, and enterainment to increase enrollement in the program. Over the past 4 years the cost of the program has risen from $39 billion to $78 billion. To put those figures in perspective, said Senator Jeff Sessions, ,”We will spend next year $40 billion on the federal highway program.”
Report Post »Redwing1
Posted on August 8, 2012 at 6:31pmJoe pie hole…..
You start by calling everyone “idiot blaze posters” as you post yourself. Duh…You can’t make this stuff up.
But I thought the economy was turning around? That would give us a decrease in dependency. Not an increase…right? I know, too much to handle.
Report Post »BillyBeefcake
Posted on August 8, 2012 at 6:43pmALL HAIL OUR KING…KING OBAMA!
Marxist 3:16 reads;
“For god so loved the world that he gave his ‘second’ only begotten son Barry Obama. That whosoever ‘voteth’ for him shall have ever lasting handouts”.
Report Post »historyguy48
Posted on August 8, 2012 at 7:06pmComrade Piehole I would be very pleased to tear your nonsense statement to shreds but I don’t think it would be worth the very little effort it would take to do so.
Report Post »However, please note that both houses of congress went to the Democrat (Communist) Party in 2006 during that horrible time of economic trouble when unemployment was still under 5%. As our wonderful Progressives began to work their magic, things improved remarkably until by 2008, when Dear Leader was elected, things suddenly, shockingly, fell apart. Well, not really. Unemployment began to escalate from 2006 on as the economy began to slam into the Progressive created “housing crises” which was also part of the Progressive inspired “banking crises”.
So now that Dear Leader has pissed away almost 6 trillion dollars chasing the nightmare of Keynesian Economic theory, which by the way John Maynard Keynes himself didn’t believe in, and the country is about to fall of the cliff so happily predicted by noted Progressive author Francis Fox Piven and her now deceased husband, your wonderful moronic heroes are going to level the playing field and transform America into what their heart desires. We will be a third world country.
So, when the guns are shooting at you, just remember that you are partially to blame because you drank the Marxist cool aid.
db321
Posted on August 8, 2012 at 7:13pmDivide the Cost of Welfare 800 Billion a year by each Recipients $100 Million – $80,000 a year to pay one recipient $11,000 a year – US Citizens must think this is a good deal, becuase you never hear anyone talking about it.
When Reagan was running for President, America was spending $47,000 per year, to pay one Welfare recipient – Recipients recieved then around $7000 a year. Reagan said he was going to cut the waste and fraud in Welfare and raise what every reciepeint recieve – Reagan gain 70% of the Welfare recipeints that voted for him.
If Reagan was running today – it would be bye bye Obama. Reagan cut $47,000 cost to pay one reciepint down to $17,000 and GAVE WELFARE RECIPEINTS A RAISE. Reagan also gave Clinton a balance budget in Clinton’s first year in office.
Report Post »JQuentinEvermann
Posted on August 8, 2012 at 7:52pmThe ship is sinking and we’re trying to save the rats. This is beyond stupid. Cut them off, let them die, I really couldn’t care less anymore. I used to care, but this new forced “morality” of stealing from producers and giving to the lazy and addicted is destroying the country. Rarely does someone on welfare actually need it because they aren’t able to do anything to help themself…it has become a way of life. If a few good people have to starve to death to get rid of those who are content with stealing from me, well, that’s too bad but it happens. The world needs people like me who are willing to make the tough call. All these bleeding hearts are doing is trying to drag everyone to the same low level. I can’t wait until Mitt is president and I can start to blame Obama for everything.
Report Post »Captain Crunch
Posted on August 8, 2012 at 8:16pm@joe.r.piehole
I’d bet you have an Obama bumper sticker on your car….lol
Report Post »wvernon1981
Posted on August 8, 2012 at 8:42pm” I used to care, but this new forced “morality” of stealing from producers and giving to the lazy and addicted is destroying the country.” So one out of every 3 people in the country is now lazy and a non-producer? The conservative movement has now become the movement of social darwinists.
Report Post »Wolfgang the Gray
Posted on August 8, 2012 at 8:45pmjoe.r.piehole – when the economy collapses from debt and all those leeches that are sucking the government teat notice the milk has run dry, they will whine and complain, picket, riot, and in the end, they may well revolt and demand socialism to give them back their entitlements. Look at Greece, they voted in the National Socialists to give them what they wanted. Bend over and squeal for your master, Comrade!
No doubt in 2 Billion Years when our sun goes nova, it will be blamed on George W. Bush.
Report Post »QuincySmith
Posted on August 8, 2012 at 8:51pmdublinthewagons;
“Bummer has shared the wealth with his cronies and left us holding the mop.” More like the mop bucket dregs.
Report Post »QuincySmith
Posted on August 8, 2012 at 8:53pmJoe;
What authority gives you the right to call conservatives idiots and IMBECILES? I KNOW it is not your superior intellect.
Report Post »symphonic
Posted on August 8, 2012 at 9:31pmStealing from the “PRODUCERS” and giving to the “RATS?”
Its beyond contemptible, the hypocrisy and self righteousness. I bet most of you Blazers were educated in the PUBLIC SCHOOL system, I was too. I also got a subsidized COLLEGE education because my state paid 75% of it because I lived in the state. So I got that too. YOU DID TOO.
You are ALL a bunch of piglets sucking on the teats of the big government pig that takes all these taxes and gives away “free stuff.” Only YOU don’t want POOR people getting “free” food. Well did you ever think (no, that’s not possible here?) that some of those people getting the free food have paid tons of taxes over the course of their lives? No, but you got a free education.
Like Piehole said, IMBECILES.
Report Post »QuincySmith
Posted on August 8, 2012 at 9:45pmcacophony;
Stealing from the “PRODUCERS” and giving to the “RATS?”
“I bet most of you Blazers were educated in the PUBLIC SCHOOL system, I was too. I also got a subsidized COLLEGE education because my state paid 75% of it because I lived in the state. So I got that too.” So you admit you are a TAKER and a RAT! “YOU DID TOO”. You lose – paid for education – no gov’t help.
“You are ALL a bunch of piglets sucking on the teats of the big government pig that takes all these taxes and gives away “free stuff.” Only YOU don’t want POOR people getting “free” food.” How do you type that? It makes absolutely no sense (your public education is showing). You sound like a progressive liberal: “I have mine – now I don’t want anyone to get theirs.”
“Well did you ever think…that some of those people getting the free food have paid tons of taxes over the course of their lives?” Now you claim to know my thoughts – that is impossible! “No, but you got a free education.” Sorry, one more time, I did not.
Like Piehole [you are] IMBECILES!
Report Post »jzs
Posted on August 8, 2012 at 10:03pmOldGeek72 says, “Picking on my president like this…. He LOVES the poor!”
Matthew 25:34-36: Then the king [Jesus] will say to those at his right hand, “Come, you that are blessed by my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world; for I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you welcomed me, I was naked and you gave me clothing, I was sick and you took care of me, I was in prison and you visited me.”
JQuentinEvermann says, “The ship is sinking and we’re trying to save the rats [poor people]. This is beyond stupid. Cut them off, let them die, I really couldn’t care less anymore.”
Mark 10:21-22: Jesus, looking at him, loved him and said, “You lack one thing; go, sell what you own, and give the money to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; then come, follow me.” When he heard this, he was shocked and went away grieving, for he had many possessions.
QuincySmith
Posted on August 8, 2012 at 10:40pmjzs;
“And then will I profess to them, I never knew you: depart from me, you that work iniquity.” Matt 7:23
Report Post »F00
Posted on August 8, 2012 at 11:03pmjzs……none of the people on welfare are jesus christ.
Report Post »TreeTrimmerJim
Posted on August 8, 2012 at 11:23pmCheck the public service of Lyndon Johnson if you looking for someone who crippled with “kindness” and someone else’s money. Our current unemployment rate can be traced to Lyndon’s voting and leadership record.
Report Post »TreeTrimmerJim
Posted on August 8, 2012 at 11:35pmJZ… I assume your intentions were to express how you feel and not how you expect some surrogate, ie the President, will act for you because you personally aren’t capable for some reason.
“Matthew 25:34-36: Then the king [Jesus] will say to those at his right hand, “Come, you that are blessed by my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world; for I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you welcomed me, I was naked and you gave me clothing, I was sick and you took care of me, I was in prison and you visited me.””
Are those biblical references pointed at individuals for their individual behavior or for the government which serves those individuals?
Report Post »SimpleTruths
Posted on August 9, 2012 at 12:11am@TheLeftMadeMeRight
Report Post »I can answer that. Because the Republicans decided that they would rather let the country burn down to the ground rather than let Obama succeed. Much like the Democrats did to Hoover in the late 1920′s, early 1930′s.
sfrich
Posted on August 9, 2012 at 12:18amDB321: It’s not $800 billion a year, it’s over 10 years. That’s $80 billion per year for food stamps. About 50 million people (1/6) of the population (mostly children) get the money. That’s about $1,600 per year per person. Or $5 per day.
The US GDP is $15 trillion per year. The food stamp expenditure of $80 billion per year is 0.5 % of our national economy. I think we can afford to spend 0.5% of our economy to give poor kids $5 a day for food.
Report Post »RayOne
Posted on August 9, 2012 at 12:19amThis is called strategy, just wait until the people are hungry.
Report Post »QuincySmith
Posted on August 9, 2012 at 12:22amSimpleton;
Your comment makes absolutely no sense. oblama‘s success means America’s failure – period.
Report Post »ChiefGeorge
Posted on August 9, 2012 at 1:06amWe as a nation chased prosperity right up to the walls of socialism and said, Ummm? This doesn’t look so bad! Bring on the Unions and more benefits, more retired pay, taxes from everyone to pay for it and now we are going broke? What happens next is going to be very ugly. The buyers remorse will seem easy to stomach compared to the finger pointing as to who brought it all down. Many will say the banks, some will say the old White retired people needing so much healthcare, some will say the illegals, some will say the Black community who rely so much on government, some will say republicans or democrats. But in the end it will only be the irresponsible American government and its citizens who sat back so idle just believing their nation would never become what so many nations are and have become.
It couldn’t last forever but it could have been better managed and safe guarded for the next generation. Sorry kids! But we broke it and it ain’t getting fixed ever again. We don’t have another 100 years to figure out that we were duped and start changing back into what we all know can work. Knowledge will only be for certain people by that time as we will have regressed well back to lawlessness and freuds. I want to weep for this country but no tears will come because I know damn well we’ve done it to ourselves. The gravy train will soon be over people and I just hope you’ve got the smarts to see where we are and headed so as to prepare for that eventual out
Report Post »spikebu
Posted on August 9, 2012 at 1:26am@symphonic…talk about self-righteous, contemptible, hypocrisy! “The state subsidized my college education”??? What about those taxes to state schools my parents, grandparents, aunts, and uncles paid? It wasn’t “the state” that paid that. It was my relatives. How did people like you never learn what the tax collected was to be used for? What do you think a school tax is for? We, the tax payers, PAID for that college and the “teachers”. We will continue to pay until we no longer earn an income. You dishonor your parents when you say “the state” paid for 75% of your college education. If you’re an orphan, that’s why people set up scholarships.
Report Post »RJL
Posted on August 9, 2012 at 6:09amThey are all to blame. Obama, Democrats, Republicans, Romney (Romneycare) etc…etc….gloom and doom….etc
Report Post »LIBSALWAYSLIE
Posted on August 9, 2012 at 7:19amJoe R, You sir are an idiot. Fact one: Obama is the worst president in history. Fact two. The economic colapse was the result of DEMOCRATS Barny Frank and Chris Dodd. Do some real homework before you just repeate the same old tired liberal lies. Fact three: The high number of people getting handouts is obamas plan, to get more people dependant on the government. Why cant you liberal imbeciles see the truth?
Report Post »CABERNETQHS
Posted on August 9, 2012 at 7:40am@PIEHOLE
Report Post »I don’t like to respond to morons, but I’ll make an exception for you. Maybe you’re too young or too senile to remember that Bush kept the country working at approximately 5-7 % unemployment even after 911. You must not remember the airlines folding and businesses suffering due to the shock that assault had on our economy. It’s the entitlement policies that have been bleeding us dry coupled with the socialist POS POTUS we currently have that will be our demise. Get your head out of your a$$ and wake up or go spew your rancid liberal talking points elsewhere.
Cry_Havoc
Posted on August 9, 2012 at 8:22amHey Piehole, you flaming leftist libs like to conveniently forget that Bush was saddled with a dem majority in both houses for his last four years. It was they that put into place the plague that wrought the financial meltdown. Your dear leader ObowMao has doubled down on this, and added more to our national debt than all previous Presidents COMBINED. Facts are facts, numbers are numbers, but for your crew, lies are……..well you’re are still swallowing them….but still, LIES. Barry owns this mess now, and all he’s done is made it worse. But, it’s all part of his plan. Destroy American capitalism/success/individualism/self-reliance. He’s been a socialist utopia seeker since his youth. If we don’t get rid of this “President” (he’s already violated his oath of office, and therefore subject to treason), this country will suffer it’s worst catastrophe since…..2008, and it’s been really bad so far. Hope I have some Change in my pocket…………….
Report Post »candymanal
Posted on August 9, 2012 at 8:47amIt’s all about equality.
Report Post »If you can’t get the losers to perform and get jobs, then take it from those who work hard, and everything will finally become equal.
But I digress.
I myself, am on Social Security Disability, and I hate the way they tell me, that it is a welfare program.
For over 40 years, I paid into this very system. Then, through no fault of my own, some insurance company decided that I should take advantage of it. Although I do see many many people, who are fully capable of earning a living, collecting on the sysem.
Right now, in order to get back, every cent that I paid in, I’d have to live to be, 105 years old.
If you pay into it, it’s not welfare!
Similarly, if you get interest on your money in a bank, is it welfare?
JQuentinEvermann
Posted on August 9, 2012 at 9:49amThe point here is simple: WE CAN’T AFFORD IT ANYMORE. So, to argue that people who don’t produce should still get handouts, is to say that even as I die, I should spend my last breath helping those who won’t help themselves.
You seem to understand how a person can be so broke that they can’t even pay for food; what don‘t you get about a country being so broke that it can’t pay for everyone to sit around and do nothing?
And I spent 8 years in the Marine Corps to help pay for my education (“help” because I kept a job while completing my degree from Texas A&M). I’m proud I did it, but glad I’m out; no Marine of good conscience will continue to follow the orders of this tyrant for much longer. He is a domestic enemy of the people. As Caesar was described by some, “A serpent in the egg.”
Report Post »mtcountrygrl
Posted on August 9, 2012 at 11:12amWelfare needs to stop being CHECKS. We need to go to food banks, second hand clothes, and public housing that resembles a bunk house. Hand outs need to be for the needy not the lazy. The way you do that is make the hand out less appealing. My family has never taken a dime from government (we don’t even use the schools). We budget and if the money is not there, we don’t spend it. My sister‘s family gets all the assistance there is and she doesn’t give one thought to choices (she is on kid number 7). We were visiting once and she wanted to go to 7-11 for icecream, it was the end of the month and I said we don’t have money for icecream right now. So she treated, put those Ben and Jerry pints on her food stamp card! Illistrates what is wrong with the program doesn’t it.
Report Post »Man-On-A-Mission
Posted on August 9, 2012 at 11:16amDo you know more whites are on food stamps and welfare than Minorities……do your home work and don’t drink the Kool Aide. Blame the white Ghetto people for bringing down this country…..OH….you won’t do that, because everything is the blacks and Mexican’s fault.
Strait Right Wing….blame everyone, but yourself!!!!!!!!
Report Post »FR33D0M4A11
Posted on August 9, 2012 at 11:17amHey Mr Piehole,
Dont you think that everyone has a responsibility for their own actions!? The crash of 2008 had alot to do with alot of things; like Alan Greenspans manipulation of the interest rates, or Barney Frank meddling with the housing policies, or possibly Clinton for the repeal of the Glass-Steagel act allowing the merge of investment and commercial banks that lay the groundwork for the worst available mortgages possible. And yes, Bush should take some blame too. But last, and not the least, you the people want something for nothing, taking no responsibility for your financial destitute. You may want to consider that out of the 50% of Americans that are taking food stamps today, all are not justified or required.
Its NOT FREE MONEY. People will eventually be forced to take responsibility for their actions.
Report Post »JQuentinEvermann
Posted on August 9, 2012 at 12:08pm@Man-On-A-Mission: You’re the only person here who brought up Blacks or Mexicans other than one post which stated some people blame it on Blacks or Mexicans…etc. Please take your racist comments to a board that tolerates such hatred.
This isn’t a racial issue, it is a financial one. We’re out of money, which means that you’re broke too. No more food stamps for you. No more free house for you. No more cable TV or internet for you. No more!
Report Post »DEMOCRATS.ARE.EVIL
Posted on August 9, 2012 at 12:17pmBut…….welfare mothers make better lovers. Neil Young sang that.
Report Post »VoteBushIn12
Posted on August 9, 2012 at 1:27pmSo you’re telling me that more people rely on government aid in a recession?
…Some call the papers, this is breaking news!
idiots.
Report Post »The Jewish Avenger
Posted on August 9, 2012 at 3:33pm@joe.r.piehole
“Hello idiot Blaze posters.”
Q: how many think decided NOT to read your liberal spew after that statement?
A: Count me 1st.
Careful, the kool-aid is working…
Stop groveling in front of you pictures of the communist and socialist regime leaders of the past with Obama and grow a PAIR and think for yourself….FOR ONCE.
If it helps, pretend Obama told you too…
Report Post »The Jewish Avenger
Posted on August 9, 2012 at 3:38pmI’d say dont feed the trolls but an idiot like piehole is too much fun to poke at!
LOL
Report Post »Detroit paperboy
Posted on August 8, 2012 at 4:59pmI think I’m about to fire all my employees, and get on welfare…..no shame no more….
Report Post »Lord_Frostwind
Posted on August 8, 2012 at 5:18pm“Who is John Galt?”
I never thought I would live to see the day we proved Rand was right.
Report Post »Cry_Havoc
Posted on August 9, 2012 at 8:45amFrostwind; I saw this coming the day I finished reading Atlas Shrugged for the first time. She (Rand) escaped a communist society, and knew exactly what it’s about. The telltale signs of which are all around us. When the producers, despairing under the weight of government, give up, and disappear, from whom will the “entitled” take from?
Report Post »Individualism
Posted on August 8, 2012 at 4:55pmget rid of the central banking system and than we can have capitalism again.
Report Post »longun45
Posted on August 8, 2012 at 5:04pmI agree the progressive democrats should stop the war on the poor and should stop their war on women.
Report Post »The_Cabrito_Goat
Posted on August 8, 2012 at 5:22pmFriedman said that school choice was one of the first hurdles to jump towards restoration of liberty. I tend to agree. If we have kids in high school who have no idea what a mortgage is, or how a central bank works, or the purpose of a federal reserve, (like me) then we are facing a hydra. If you lop off its head, another one will just grow back.
Truth, fiscal literacy, and early economic education is the fire needed to vanquish this multi headed beast.
We need economics classes as early as 5th grade.
Report Post »Rothbardian_in_the_Cleve
Posted on August 8, 2012 at 6:09pm@Goat,
Be careful. Friedman also proposed an individual health insurance mandate and was an advocate of fiat currency and expansionary monetary policy.
He said some really cool things, and in total he was an inspiration. That being said, he may not have been the free-market champion that conservatives paint him to be.
Report Post »Pontiac
Posted on August 8, 2012 at 11:12pmI prefer Claude Frédéric Bastiat.
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Now, legal plunder can be committed in an infinite number of ways. Thus we have an infinite number of plans for organizing it: tariffs, protection, benefits, subsidies, encouragements, progressive taxation, public schools, guaranteed jobs, guaranteed profits, minimum wages, a right to relief, a right to the tools of labor, free credit, and so on, and so on. All these plans as a whole—with their common aim of legal plunder—constitute socialism.
But how is this legal plunder to be identified? Quite simply. See if the law takes from some persons what belongs to them, and gives it to other persons to whom it does not belong. See if the law benefits one citizen at the expense of another by doing what the citizen himself cannot do without committing a crime.
It is easy to understand why the law is used by the legislator to destroy in varying degrees among the rest of the people their personal independence by slavery, their liberty by oppression, and their property by plunder. This is done for the benefit of the person who makes the law, and in proportion to the power that he holds.
If you wish to prosper, let your customer prosper. When people have learned this lesson, everyone will seek his individual welfare in the general welfare. Then jealousies between man and man, city and city, province and province, nation and nation, will no longer trouble the world.
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THX-1138
Posted on August 8, 2012 at 4:55pmI’m quitting my job. There just doesn’t seem to be any point in doing whitemarket work anymore.
Maybe I can learn to fly a plane fast and low at night. (I’ve said too much…)
Report Post »symphonic
Posted on August 8, 2012 at 9:34pmIf you have a job, be thankful and just do it. There is self respect and value in doing all you can, and there is no shame in getting help either when it is necessary. The economy is random and beyond the control of most people.
Report Post »Viking64
Posted on August 8, 2012 at 4:52pmIncreased welfare, more unemployment, liberal idiots all coming out of liberal supporting colleges, liberal bias media, etc.,etc., ask what can the country do for me next, race baiting, plantation mentality, give me ,give, give me, what does it all equal , more democratic voters and a once strong country now going straight down the abyss. Four more years of the great political scam artist and friends and were all finished. Even if Romney wins, don’t know if he can fix this mess? Vote smart 2012
Report Post »dublinthewagons
Posted on August 8, 2012 at 5:02pmI will vote for Romney. Mr. Vote Smart isn’t in this race. Mr. Smart knows it cant be fixed, so he didn’t run.
Report Post »Meyvn
Posted on August 8, 2012 at 4:51pmSo am I fortunate or unfortunate that I am not one of them? Hmmm.
Report Post »CulperGang
Posted on August 8, 2012 at 4:50pmand two third of these are foreigners…………the other on third are politicians and corporations.
(yet soldiers get paid shat)
GM just bought a soccer team with your tax $$$$ oh and 9 billion is still unaccounted for by the treasury…….“missing” google it……..
AMERICANS ARE BEING RAPED OF THEIR SWEAT EQUITY BY POLITICIANS……..those they have TRUSTED to run the system for them. HANG ALL OF THEM.
Report Post »GIRTHMAN
Posted on August 8, 2012 at 4:50pmTop down, bottom up ,inside out JUST LIKE GLENN PREDICTED 2 YEARS AGO !!
No wonder the left hates Glenn so much He has been right about everything !
Before you trolls dribble all over the place, HAVE PROOF YOU GOT NONE !!!
Report Post »Tri-ox
Posted on August 8, 2012 at 4:49pm“We tried our plan … and it worked!” – B. Hussein Obama
From the day he took office, increasing unemployment and the welfare rolls has been obama’s number one priority – his plan is really coming to fruition.
Report Post »TRONINTHEMORNING
Posted on August 8, 2012 at 4:49pmAs it has been throughout history, a lot of chaff amongst the wheat.
Report Post »skippy6
Posted on August 8, 2012 at 4:49pm110,000,000 Obama voters…..We just need to help out those people that don’t want to work…. They need food to supplement that hard day of watching the big screen tv talking on the iphone or surfing the net…..Oh don’t forget about the Illegals receiving these tax dollars also!!!!!!
Report Post »republic2011
Posted on August 8, 2012 at 4:46pmStop the war on those that work. Stop stealing what we make to give it to deadbeats that don’t want to work. Government can’t give stuff to others without “stealing” it from someone else first. What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving.
Report Post »Eblaze44
Posted on August 8, 2012 at 6:16pmI think it will take another four years of Barack Hussein Obama in office for those Americans that do still have jobs to realize that they are subsidizing over half of Americans and illegals to figure it out. then it will be too late.
Report Post »Rothbardian_in_the_Cleve
Posted on August 8, 2012 at 4:46pmOk, be honest. Let’s assume Romney wins in Nov. and let’s assume that the GOP wins house and senate. Given that, do you think that they will cut program funding? Will they change the qualification rules? Will they take any action directly to fix this issue? Sure, they’ll say their going to create jobs. Right, government creates jobs. Uh huh. Anyway, the power of the pen will be right in front of them and will they cut programs or funding?
We do have a recent datapoint. The 108th and 109th congressional sessions had GOP in power both houses and a Republican POTUS. Did they grow or contract government? Furthermore, is Romney more or less conservative than GWB based on his actual legislative record in MA?
Report Post »THX-1138
Posted on August 8, 2012 at 4:58pmSo, plan “B” is what?
I’m lucky. My kid’s grown and I have money and a passport.
You guys can manage. I’m sure of it…
Report Post »jmsermack
Posted on August 8, 2012 at 5:02pmRITC, hope you’re wrong, afraid you may be right.
Report Post »LIBERTARIAN T38
Posted on August 8, 2012 at 5:06pmTHX, I ‘m like you, but give your ticket to idiots like rothbard and let’s stay here and fight to get our freedom back. I don’t want my girls to live in a socialist America as either welfare junkies or slaves to the government. I owe it to my family and country to help defeat the socialists.
Report Post »Rothbardian_in_the_Cleve
Posted on August 8, 2012 at 5:07pmI don’t think there is a plan B. I take issue with those on the right that are binary thinkers. 1/0…us/them…red/blue. History and data tells us that there isn’t much difference. Sure campaign commercials look different but actual performance in public service is roughly the same. The Bush years saw government grow with a GOP congress. Yet we think if we elect a liberal republican from MA and put him with a GOP congress led by McCain and Boehner that suddenly they are going to see the light? Of course not. Yet these folks will delude themselves to thinking it is actually getting better. It ain’t. The problem is waaaay too big and y’all are like rubes at a snake oil sales pitch. Let’s talk about gay marriage when the debt (unfunded liabilities) is 5 times the GDP of planet earth. Yeah!!!!
Plan B?
1. Wake the heck up and stop buying the BS of politicians and use your dang heads and read what people really do…not what they say.
Report Post »2. Prepare yourself and family for a really rough patch to come.
3. Civil disobedience. Stop playing the stupid games and start demanding that your neighborhood police quit being the muscle for the govt.
4. Go to church and get right with God.
5. Bring it down. Shut it down…whatever. The sooner it crumbles the better off our children will be. We’re screwed but we did it to ourselves. Let’s save our souls and not deliver our kids into slavery.
Rothbardian_in_the_Cleve
Posted on August 8, 2012 at 5:13pm@t38,
Idiot huh? Do tell. I would love to know what part I’ve failed to comprehend.
Report Post »Anonymous T. Irrelevant
Posted on August 8, 2012 at 5:24pmROTHBARD
Report Post »You never know. In 1981, we had an ex-grade B Movie star, ex-Democrat Governor come in and turn the country around after , who was then, the worst US President in history, and went on to win a 2nd term in a landslide. You just never know, so don’t lose hope.
Rothbardian_in_the_Cleve
Posted on August 8, 2012 at 5:32pm@ATI,
Touche’. I pray your right.
Seems a bit like a Lloyd Christmas play though….”so you‘re telling me there’s a chance!”
Report Post »Puddle Duck
Posted on August 8, 2012 at 10:41pmWe certainly won’t find if Romney does not win in Nov….I say give him a chance. Furthermore it up to us from that point forward as it will be imperative that WE DO OUR jobs holding the GOP accountable. The progressive left has doggedly persued the changes they wanted over a long period of time…inadvertenly they have given up the blue print to do exactly the same to reverse all of the damage done. IT can be done and will be, know it, live it, do it, no more excuses, no more waffling, no more griping. Get it done, period.
Report Post »wisehiney
Posted on August 8, 2012 at 4:44pmDoes’nt ruin my day, the sooner the collapse, the sooner the Patriots that survive can rebuild without the weasels.
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on August 8, 2012 at 4:50pmSounds good, but the weasels aren’t going to disappear when the collapse comes. Half the stinking country is made up of weasels now.
Report Post »GIRTHMAN
Posted on August 8, 2012 at 4:51pmOnce over 50 % theres no coming back !
Report Post »OniKaze
Posted on August 8, 2012 at 4:52pmAgreed
Report Post »MeteoricLimbo
Posted on August 8, 2012 at 4:57pmWhere will the weasels go WISEHINEY?
Report Post »Rothbardian_in_the_Cleve
Posted on August 8, 2012 at 5:23pm@Girthman,
As Plato pointed out in the Republic, that democracy fails when the majority can vote themselves into the coffers. Hence the whole point of the Republic was to protect the minority from the tyranny of the majority. Anyways, his tipping point was that 51%.
Truth is, that even if we aren’t there now, we will be. Not you, but collectively…ask yourself; who has more babies welfare moms or working moms? Now, how do you think those babies in each instance are going to be raised? You think welfare mom is raising little libertarians and conservatives? Yeah, probably not. SO, even if we are the 51% today the writing is already on the wall.
A. The financial problem is beyond “paying off”. Destruction and rebuilding of the system is the only alternative.
Report Post »B. We (conservatives, libertarians) are being massively outbred.
C. The longer we delay A the more of the B’s that are going to deal with it.
Altair
Posted on August 8, 2012 at 5:30pm“…but collectively…ask yourself; who has more babies welfare moms or working moms? Now, how do you think those babies in each instance are going to be raised? You think welfare mom is raising little libertarians and conservatives?”
VIVA Planned Parenthood !
Report Post »wisehiney
Posted on August 8, 2012 at 6:57pmWith a systemic breakdown, beginning with the financial system, half of the population will be gone within one or two months.
Report Post »Puddle Duck
Posted on August 8, 2012 at 11:40pmWisehinny…that is the cold hard truth no doubt about it.
Report Post »Cuba_Libre
Posted on August 8, 2012 at 4:42pmThis is a direct representation of this administration. They have tried to promote the welfare state and government dependency from cradle to grave! This needs to stop and we need to tell Congress to present reforms and stand up to Obama now through November so this doesn’t get worse! Blast email Congress here: http://www.oneclickpolitics.com
Report Post »Rothbardian_in_the_Cleve
Posted on August 8, 2012 at 4:47pmWait…so what about the 94 million people who were there when he started?
Report Post »GIRTHMAN
Posted on August 8, 2012 at 4:55pmWhat about them, OH I get it It is still bush’s fault everyone !! CLOWN LOOK AT THE CHART
UP UP UP UP AND GONE
Report Post »LIBERTARIAN T38
Posted on August 8, 2012 at 5:01pmUm, I think Obama’s only regret is that the number is so low. In case anyone reading this is normal, try to understand that to Obama and the Dems, the more people on welfare, the better, the fewer achieving and getting rich the better. That’s how they earn compassion badges.
The other 90% of us are shocked or saddened by this, but this is exacltly what Europe is like. America was a problem for the global left, and Obama has started the decay like cancer.
Report Post »Rothbardian_in_the_Cleve
Posted on August 8, 2012 at 5:31pm@Girthman,
Relax dude, I’m not the bad guy here. Chart sucks. Yes, Obama has contributed to a massive amount of folks on the dole. We all agree. My point is that this isn’t an Obama problem. There were 94M people on the dole when he came in. So are we saying 94M is okay…that’s our limit. But, as soon as you go to 94,000,001 that’s it. You’re a communist failure? Yes, he is, but that’s beside the point. My point is that if we play this game of Red vs. Blue and Obama vs.Romney then we are missing the real issue. The Red team isn’t our friends. At least they haven’t been. The system is rotten to the core….every bit of it. If McCain had won would that chart have gone down from 94M? No, and you know it. Why? Because the whole freaking system is a mess. It is, in every sense, Hobbs’ Leviathan. It knows no purpose beyond expanding and there isn’t anything any politician can do other than make it expand faster (not slower…not an option). As soon as we get to a collective realization about this the sooner we can have a real conversation about how to not have our children be wage slaves and serfs.
Report Post »FirebirdTA
Posted on August 8, 2012 at 6:03pmWhat is the path that us regular citizens take to begin making a difference towards correcting this rotten system? I don’t believe Romney could do much but scratch the surface in terms of turning this around in his first 4 years if he gets there, and it’s not guaranteed that he will attempt to do this, but I will definitely take my chances with him in the seat rather than Obummer.
Report Post »Rothbardian_in_the_Cleve
Posted on August 8, 2012 at 6:16pm@Firebird,
When you pick between the lesser of two evils you are still picking an evil. If you don‘t believe Romney or Obama will tackle real issues like not making our children wage slaves then don’t vote for them. Vote for who you really want to be POTUS. We don’t have to accept their false construct binary choices. WE run the government. BY the people. OF the people. FOR the people. We don’t have to pep talk ourselves into voting for a guy who signed gun legislation, gay marriage laws, increased taxes and cost of doing business on MA small businesses, and gave a state version of Obamacare to MA. Those are incongruent to being a conservative. Crap, they‘re almost Obama’esque. But here are people on this board carrying water for him….because he might be able to beat Obama. When Lenin died I’ll bet a bunch of Soviets were glad as heck that he was gone. That is, until freaking Stalin took over. What does it matter if it is your guy or their guy if they are both hosing you?
Report Post »Puddle Duck
Posted on August 9, 2012 at 12:01amRoth the largest difference this time around is this simple fact…the nation is broke. Romney will have little choice but to cut back. The world economy is hanging by a thread right now…any significant blow to the system will cause it to crumble. I realize that growth figures show we are not in recession but that is only technically correct for if you take into account all relevant inidcators we are actually in recession in parts of the ecnomy, stagnant in other parts and very modest growth in the financial sector. That small growth is actually artificial in nature since it’s been propped up by the FED flooding the world marketplace with cheap US dollars the past 4 years….that chicken has to come home to roost at some point. Hyper inflation will set in if the FED continues buying it’s own debt and circulating even more US cirrency (printed out of thin air). The US dollar has lost 20% of it value during Obamas term…it could esily lose another 20% if Obama wins aother term…if that happens and interest rates are forced upward by the IMF the US debt will become unservicable overnight going from 240 billion today to over 1T (if the interest on the current rises to 5%_. Lets face the last time we had run away inflation was during the Carter admin…the interest rates back then were above 20%. 20% of 16T is 3.2T….our GDP is roughly 1.5 to 1.7T (with better economy)….the writing is on the wall for all to see. I imagine even the GOP realizes the game is up.
Report Post »Puddle Duck
Posted on August 9, 2012 at 12:11amJust a correction or two…GDP is 14 to 15 T while FED take is 1.4- 1.6T in taxes per yr…National debt now equals 100% of GDP. Needless to say if interest in debt jumps to just 5% radical changes in FED spending and taxation wull have to take place overnight. Taxes cannot be dramatically increased for obvious reasons so the only alternative is drastic feep cuts across the board. Thew miliatry have already born the brunt of cuts…the rest of Gov’t has to be radically reformed and quickly…low interesat rates will not last forever nor can they.
Report Post »FirebirdTA
Posted on August 9, 2012 at 5:08pm@ Roth
Well I do feel like voting Romney into the chair will provide progress for our country, as opposed to not voting for anyone because I feel like all politicians are rotten, or not voting against Obummer and seeing him win again. What was your third option detailing?
I respect your opinion and have enjoyed reading many of your comments on this site so far.
Report Post »Disabledvet
Posted on August 8, 2012 at 4:41pmLeeches, moochers and parasites, everyone of them needs to be drug tested and if any show up with I phones or driving a new car they need to be taken off the list, make the government offer a training program to teach them a skill if they miss a class they lose their welfare, they get drug tested weekly, not all but most of these people could work they are just to lazy.
Report Post »OldGeek72
Posted on August 8, 2012 at 4:56pmHere in Ohio this same group of leeches are GIVEN a free cell-phone!! So you can‘t run ’em off for that. Can’t run them off for driving a new Government Motors car either, the unions will claim you killed their mothers with cancer.
Report Post »normalmom
Posted on August 8, 2012 at 6:05pmThat would be a step in the right direction, make it hard to stay on welfare. However Obama just removed the requirements of actively looking for work. Now they literally can just sit on their rump and live off of you and me, the tax payers.
Report Post »HKS
Posted on August 8, 2012 at 4:40pmWelfare state you say, Obama want’s it and he owns your ass.
Report Post »OperationNorthwoods
Posted on August 8, 2012 at 4:39pmDon’t worry we can always print more money.
Report Post »dublinthewagons
Posted on August 8, 2012 at 4:58pmWe are printing more money right now at this very moment. That way everybody can quit work and go on welfare. No more than the dollar is worth, why work for it? Obama money =at least toilet tissue has a practical use. Obama money don’t take no crap off nobody. Just re-distributes (smears) the mess.
Report Post »Puddle Duck
Posted on August 9, 2012 at 12:27amThe FED is sitting on 6T in newly printed currency but the main drawback to adding to what is already out there is the spectre of hyper inflation. One of the pre conditions to run away inflation is monetizing your own debt, something the FED and this afmin 3 years ago said they would never allow or do…..well that ship has sailed bigtime. Spain recently had a bond issue that went very badly….we are fast approaching the time when US treasuries and bonfs will be looked at with simialr disdain with little or no buyers willing to take the risk. China is already leveraged to the max with US treasuries….it’s no secret that China and Russia are pushing for a new rserve world currency since they afraid that they might be paid back with nearly worthless US paper (if hyper inflation sets in). If the US dollar is dropped in the next 2 years the US and the rest of the West will be in a world of hurt never before seen by the nation.
Report Post »MeteoricLimbo
Posted on August 8, 2012 at 4:39pmThis chart shows that human beings are prone to take the path of least resistance, not unlike any living thing on the planet.
Report Post »Altair
Posted on August 8, 2012 at 5:33pmThis chart shows that sub-human beings are prone to take the path of least resistance, not unlike many living things on the planet.
Fixed it for you.
Report Post »MeteoricLimbo
Posted on August 8, 2012 at 11:11pmNo Sir, I think you fixed it for you. I don’t think all on the chart are sub human…sorry
Report Post »Melvin Spittle
Posted on August 8, 2012 at 4:39pmThis is a success metric for the re-elect Obama campaign. Any additional welfare growth correlates to a growth in Obama’s voter base.
Report Post »FEMALL
Posted on August 8, 2012 at 4:38pm43% on welfare after 20 years
Report Post »http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/aug/8/slow-path-to-progress-for-us-immigrants/
Dustoff
Posted on August 8, 2012 at 7:21pmThat’s the PROBLEM!
Report Post »freeberty
Posted on August 8, 2012 at 4:38pmGo ahead and count the ones on SS, medicare, some form of farm welfare subsidy, some form of jobs program like the military, and any other form of government worker, or government sub-contractor. It all adds up to where I think I am the only one working free of government ties to pay for all you parasitic leeches. Tell your wife and kids they’re welcome.
Report Post »Oversat
Posted on August 8, 2012 at 4:47pmAre you saying that because I am in the military, I count as suckling on the welfare teet?
Listen here, douchebag, I didn’t get blown up 9 times, kill 6 dirtbags, and nearly get my head blown off in over 20 engagements to be regarded as a welfare junky. Technically, I qualify for food stamps and for Social Security Disability, but I don’t take it because I have a sense of pride, honor, and work ethic. Up yours.
Report Post »Rothbardian_in_the_Cleve
Posted on August 8, 2012 at 4:48pmLOL. Post of the day!
Report Post »OniKaze
Posted on August 8, 2012 at 4:52pmI feel you… I am 30 years old, and I have never once taken ANY form of government assistance (although lately I feel like kinda a fool since everyone else is living good off of our money, so why not us??) and have no intention to ever do so…
It makes me sick that there are people out there that CAN work, and simply chose not to since they can’t find a job they like… Lets all be honest.. There are plenty of jobs out there.. Its just that they are not glamorous or high paying, but you know what, I would rather do those jobs than sap off of someone else….
Knowing that 1/3 of our country is receiving handouts (not wellfare… Lets call it what it is…) and I’d say another 1/3 doesn’t qualify (do to age or having too much money) means that its gotta be about 50% of eligible people are on Hand-outs…. Disgusting..
If you are not mentally or physically retarded, or severely injured you do not belong on hand-out programs… You just need to get off of your lazy butt and earn your way…. I would never say get rid of those programs (since some people truly NEED them..) but most people (maybe 3/4ths of the people on them) don’t need them…
Report Post »Tommyk1
Posted on August 8, 2012 at 4:58pmOversat. Thank you for your service.
Report Post »normalmom
Posted on August 8, 2012 at 6:10pmThat is rude, the people in reference here are the ones NOT and I repeat for you NOT working or even trying to work. Never go and disrespect our military or their families.
Report Post »Puddle Duck
Posted on August 9, 2012 at 12:38amOversat you deserve way more than what the FEDs paid you to risk life and limb for the nation. I’m glad you made it back , thanks for the work you did and continue to do. The nation needs more like you.
Report Post »Landon410
Posted on August 8, 2012 at 4:38pmholy balls
Report Post »hayesstephen
Posted on August 8, 2012 at 4:38pmThank You President Nobama. We could not have done it without you and Nancy Plelousy, and Wooden head Harry Reid. Now if you are re-elected, a shudder just went down my spine, everyone one but Caucasians will be on welfare. I have been reading for years about how people are unhappy with the government or the Congress or the President, never, never have I read so many people calling for the Military to do something. I am scared down to the bone. If Nobama is re elected this country in done. We will cease to exist. Yahweh please do not abandon us in this our greatest need.
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on August 8, 2012 at 4:34pmNice work Obama. Now, how are you going to pay for it?
Report Post »Too_Far_Gone
Posted on August 8, 2012 at 4:40pmThat’s the point, he knows he/we can’t ..
Report Post »Popp40
Posted on August 8, 2012 at 4:45pmCome on Gonzo…you know the answer to that one….TAX THE RICH!!!!
But I just hope they are paying attention to what is going on in France….did you see the story on the Drudge about the rich leaving?
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on August 8, 2012 at 4:48pmExactly right. Collapse the system.
Report Post »Rothbardian_in_the_Cleve
Posted on August 8, 2012 at 4:50pmSo what if Obama pays for the 11M additions on his watch. Who’s responsible for the 94M that were there before?
Report Post »MeteoricLimbo
Posted on August 8, 2012 at 5:00pmIt makes you wish you had a Men in Black Flashy thingy to wake up America.
Report Post »LIBERTARIAN T38
Posted on August 8, 2012 at 5:11pmSo, the Dems spent 60 years getting to 94 million and Obama added 12 million in only 3 years! He’s SuperDem! Re-elect him and it will be 300,000,000 by 2016…and still Bush’s fault…
Report Post »Rothbardian_in_the_Cleve
Posted on August 8, 2012 at 5:50pm@T38,
Don‘t pee on my leg and tell me it’s raining. This is not a GOP vs. DNC game. If you believe that then you are fooling yourself.
For example, even Reagan expanded entitlements. Here’s his speech about it and what he had signed into law.
http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=33745#ixzz1yLIT9yg7
Of course we know about GWB. Just for starters there is Medicare part D and all the GOP who voted for that.
The GOP has been supporters of Farm Subsidies as well as forms of corporate welfare.
On the positive side of the ledger, they did pass welfare reform in 1996 (PRWORA) to send the responsibility back to the states, which was good.
But then again, one of the sponsors of the food stamp act of 1964 was a republican from GA (Aiken). Obviously, there were GOP votes for this law as well.
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