[Trapped Behind Enemy Lines]

47% don’t pay taxes. Almost half the country receiving on government support programs. Explains our $16 trillion national debt and why we are close to bankruptcy. The only remaining question is this: How long can the Federal Reserve continue to prop up this house of cards buying up most of our government bonds?

[muawiyah]

The "half the country' meme arose out of an estimation that every household had someone in it receiving some sort of federal government payment or benefit ~ e.g. federal funding for local school projects, college loan guarantees, VA/FHA loan guarantees, social security, etc.

Get out of here with that stuff ~ it was just propaganda designed to stir up the goobers and make them say stupid things.