Posted on 10/30/2012 1:00:42 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
The federal government spent enough money on federal means-tested welfare programs to have sent each impoverished household a check for nearly $60,000, according to figures from the Census Bureau and the Congressional Research Service (CRS).
According to a report from the CRS produced for Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.), $1 trillion was spent on federal welfare programs during fiscal year 2011 – with $746 billion in federal funds and $254 in state matching funds.
The U.S. Census Bureau reported that there were approximately 16.8 million households living below the federal poverty level of $23,000 per year for a family of four in 2011. ( See: 2011 Households Below Poverty 2011.pdf )
If each of the estimated 16.8 million households with income below the poverty level were to have received an equal share of the total welfare spending for fiscal year 2011, they each would have received $59,523.
If only the 2011 federal share of welfare spending (no state matching funds) were spent as direct cash payments, each household would have received $44,404, which is nearly double the federal poverty level for a family of four.
This federal welfare spending does not include programs such as Medicare and Social Security, because they are not means-tested programs. Means-tested programs are those that only pay out benefits to people whose incomes fall below a certain threshold, such as food stamps, traditional cash welfare, and Medicaid.
In other words, if the government were to discontinue its myriad federal welfare programs, such as housing vouchers, food stamps, and Medicaid, and instead just wrote every poor household a check, it would nearly quadruple their income: increasing it from at most $23,000 per year to nearly $83,000 per year.
Well. sh*t, that explains the fat welfare momma down the road who collects $40,000 in cash every year and another $30,000 in medicaire and a free section 8 housing in the brown bungalow.
The fat welfare momma pretends to be crazy, and that’s worth $1,100 per month. Each of her six kids have ADD, so that’s another $650 per kid. Then she gets $2,000 each month in cash payments, which doesn’t include her $900 per month in food stamps.
Let’s see how long this post stays up, because every time I do a dollar analysis of my local fat welfare momma, the post gets pulled by one of the PC FR hall monitors.
These fat welfare whores make more annually than the average working American.
Okay, pull the post.
Thanks 2ndDivisionVet. In Zero’s defense, most of that money went to the staffing needed to humiliate and belittle the poor to foster their dependency.
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