Posted on 04/17/2014 10:28:16 AM PDT by rightwingerpatriot
In the last presidential election, Mitt Romney was savaged by the media and the cultural elites for pointing out that 47 percent of voters will vote for Obama as they're getting subsidies from the federal, state, or local governments. Romney was vilified as an evil, out-of-teach aristocrat that despised the less fortunate. The truth is the exact opposite as we know that Romney gives generously to the charity, unlike Obama and his progressive liberal allies, and that he created companies that actually hired people and paid them wages, again unlike most liberals. The 47 percent number was mocked as not being accurate, and it seems that it is possibly true. The reality is that it's much more than 47 percent as the welfare state is squeezing private sector workers.
In an excellent article by Terence P. Jeffrey, he points out that the real numbers of those who are living off the system and off the sweat of hard working Americans is much higher than thought. If you dig into the US Census Bureau data for 2012, the picture is bleak. He did the math and it shows that 86 million American workers are subsidizing 148 million that are getting benefits.
How did he reach these numbers? Well, the data shows that there were 103,087,000 people in 2012 that worked full time. To be considered as such, a person had to work 35 hours a week or more and also work 50 weeks out of the previous year. If you worked for a school, then summer vacation was counted as work for the purpose of the Census. Of that total number of people, 16,606,000 work for the government, with the breakdown of 4,009,000 working for the federal government and 16,606,00 working for state and local governments. That leaves a paltry 86,429,000 private sector workers.
When you compare that number of worker to the number of benefit recipients, the balance tips dramatically in a certain direction. The Census Bureau has two categories for those who get benefits: the first are those who are receiving benefits that they paid for (veteran's benefits, unemployment, Social Security, Medicare) while the second is welfare (Medicaid, food stamps, public housing, etc.). Of the welfare group, there are 108,592,000 in total (many of these receive more than one benefit). Of those who paid into the system, their numbers break down as follows: 49,901,000 getting Social Security, 46,440,000 getting Medicare, 5,098,000 getting unemployment, 34,000 veterans getting educational assistance, and 3,178,000 veterans getting benefits. If you add up both groups total (there may be some overlap), there are 151,014,000. Jeffrey deducted the over three million veterans getting benefits to get a total of 147,802,000 benefit takers.
Just compare those numbers: 147,802,000 benefit takers to just 86,429,000 who are propping up the system. For every single worker paying into the system right now, 1.7 people are taking money out. Such a situation is totally unsustainable, and its going to get worse. The narcissistic baby boomers are starting to retire and those entitlements are going to shoot through the roof. Throw in the disaster of ObamaCare that is looming over us as well, and you can quickly see that our economic picture is dire.
So what to do? I honestly can't give you an answer. The rational thing to do is to drastically cut back spending and force people back into the workforce. The problem is that liberals love having people dependent upon the government teat and their policies are designed to grind down the private sector. If you think things are grim now, they're practically rosy for what's staring us in the face in a few years. One of our biggest issues is that our elected officials just want to keep the status quo and refuse to do any meaningful reforms. We're also hampered that those who suck off the government teat will vote to elect those that will keep the gravy train running. The American worker is being slowly squeezed to death, and that final death rattle may come sooner that we thought.
Romney was vilified as an evil, out-of-teach aristocrat that despised the less fortunate.
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and ???
we know that Romney gives generously to the charity
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and the charity, Planned Parenthood thanks him for his generosity, I’m sure....
he created companies that actually hired people
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and then Williard fired them for he loves it so...
In the last presidential election, Mitt Romney was
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indeed Willard is still a was, is he not oh thou RomneyBot ???
What's the connection between Planned Parenthood and the growth of the welfare state?
The article on the RomneyBot’s pimp page: we know that Romney gives generously to the charity
Nana: and the charity, Planned Parenthood thanks him for his generosity, I’m sure....
RomneyBot: What’s the connection between Planned Parenthood and the growth of the welfare state?
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if you don’t know why did you bother writing this article ???
I was just addressing the connection you made to Willard and his generous donation to “charity”
Meanwhile he wasted millions on his ORCA...
The baby boomers are pretty much the most moral and responsible large population we have in USA now.
Romney was a hard core Constitutionalists. The real ignorant could not see that. The King Obama push for a full communists dictatorship is in the works and Americans are so ignorant they seem to welcome it. He was so right about Russia and this welfare state of America that how can one be so stupid to not realize most of you pissed to close to the barn and got your feet wet. Ignorance is no excuse and you have been so stupid that the lesser of the so called evil was beyond your intelligence. Fools and some of you are still at it. Shoot your f...ing foot but stay off mine.
I think we all agree Romney was not on any of our Top Ten Lists for nominees.
He was spot-on right with that 47% comment however.
Believe it or not, even government employees pay taxes, so the welfare burden is spread over more shoulders than you state. Granted, some of those government employees only pretend to work, but that’s a different issue altogether.
It doesn’t matter what the exact number is; even by conservative estimates, about half the country is getting some type of a transfer payment being paid by someone else. Some are pure welfare, some are social insurance, but they all are being paid by a current worker. That system cannot sustain itself, period. People don’t want to continue to work and have a huge chunk of their income taken in tax. And I don’t buy the Lib’s nonsense about our income tax rates being low. Add federal tax, state tax, local tax, property tax, sales tax and every other tax and you end up realizing how much the government takes. And while some government is necessary and many government workers work hard (and some don’t), government doesn’t produce wealth. The Ponzi Scheme that started in the 1930s will collapse one day, and its coming soon.
I didn't write the article. I was trying to provoke thought with the question.
But I see it's vain in your case to try provoking thought.
Hubby and I are baby boomers and both retired early We also still pay ginormous taxes on our guaranteed retirement income.
Wait and hope for the collapse? At least that`ll reset things, to what depends on the will of free men and women.
I was just addressing the connection you made to Willard and his generous donation to “charity”
wasn’t I suppose to comment ???
I apologize..
I just realized that I was not addressing the guy who posted this thread..
rightwingerpatriot signed up a year ago and since then has pimped his own blog continually and barely stayed around each time to answer comments..
as in this case...
PING to rightwingerpatriot
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