Posted on 01/21/2017 9:12:01 PM PST by Olog-hai
Barack Obama was the first president of the United States to spend more on “means-tested entitlements”—AKA welfare—than on national defense, according to data published by his own Office of Management and Budget.
Historical tables that the OMB posted on the Obama White House website, include annual totals for both “national defense” spending and “means-tested entitlement” spending going back to fiscal 1962—which is three years before President Lyndon Johnson signed legislation creating the Medicaid program, a means-tested entitlement that together with the Children’s Health Insurance Program enrolled 74,407,191 beneficiaries as of November 2016.
In every year from fiscal 1962 through fiscal 2014, total national defense spending exceeded means-tested entitlement spending. …
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Sorry for the first regular thread after the outage being about this guy, in retrospect.
Dish it out, its not like we will yave an IRS audit if we diss Nobama, question the gender of the First Lady or wonder where the rent a kids were taken to....
I was thinking more of what he represents. What we rejected on 11/8. It’s good to know what wounds need to be healed, of course.
I was telling some people today just how enormous the task we and Trump face. And we have to contend with the vicious uni-party, the ever-devious and deceitful media, and other internal enemies of the Republic. In a few months congress will start posturing for the 2018 elections.
Now is the time to stiffen your resolve and remember that the price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
And the first posting goes to . . .
People on welfare ,that are able bodied, including women ( no glass ceiling) need to do community service for their welfare check or they get zero. This will instill a sense of self worth and discipline that will carry forward into the work world where they can then achieve great things ( and will want to go trhere very soon after community service begins). 8 hour a day, 5 days a weeks. And with this new work force we can illuminate my lower level county, city and federal jobs and cut those budgets. This idea is workable and there are zero counter arguments. Also there is no place for drug use while on welfare. Drug testing should be weekly. Failure is not an option if you desire to eat. This is a new Country!! God bless America.
BM
Are you sure? HHS has been the biggest department in the government for years now.
Well, this is Obama’s figures. So he’s proud of welfare exceeding defense to be sure.
Those are two things that Obama didn’t spend more on.
no kidding. those 2 things went up and would have gone up regardless of who is president.
I just took umbrage with equating all “entitlement” programs as welfare.
I also had in mind the years that there was no cost of living increase with SS.
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