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11 states with more people on welfare than employed
WND ^ | 2/25/13 | Michaeld Savage

Posted on 02/25/2013 9:10:19 AM PST by OneVike

Last month, the Senate Budget Committee reports that in fiscal year 2011, between food stamps, housing support, child care, Medicaid and other benefits, the average U.S. household below the poverty line received $168.00 a day in government support. What’s the problem with that much support? Well, the median household income in America is just over $50,000, which averages out to $137.13 a day. To put it another way, being on welfare now pays the equivalent of $30.00 an hour for a 40-hour week, while the average job pays $25.00 an hour.

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To: ItsOurTimeNow

weird, I have been trying to fill positions in central Kentucky as well and it is always the 40+ year old workers that have the ‘that’s less than i could make sitting at home’ mind set. the 20-30’s are just happy to be employed.


21 posted on 02/25/2013 9:59:14 AM PST by HenryArmitage (it was not meant that we should voyage far.)
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To: HenryArmitage

Let’s trade candidate pools! :-)


22 posted on 02/25/2013 10:04:52 AM PST by ItsOurTimeNow ("This ain't no party, this ain't no disco, this ain't no foolin' around.")
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To: central_va
"The simple solution is to disenfranchise the welfare recipient. If you collect welfare in the prior 4 years then you loose your voting rights. Once disenfranchised the political will to waste this money will be gone." This solution would down spiral into a Plutocracy in no time. Both political parties would work hard to lay off people that are not of the same party. You wouldn't want to give the opportunity for people to hire and fire for anything other than the quality/quantity of the person's work.
23 posted on 02/25/2013 10:06:27 AM PST by HenryArmitage (it was not meant that we should voyage far.)
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To: OneVike

Oh, I just knew my $#!thole of a state, Illinois, would be on this list.


24 posted on 02/25/2013 10:15:48 AM PST by 3Quartets
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To: OneVike

Oh, I just knew my $#!thole of a state, Illinois, would be on this list.


25 posted on 02/25/2013 10:16:08 AM PST by 3Quartets
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To: gattaca
I looked like a bag lady compared to her! guess I have to go work to pay for her groceries. P_ssed me off!

Good thing you didn't see what kind of car she was driving.

26 posted on 02/25/2013 10:20:29 AM PST by Moonman62 (The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
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To: Count of Monte Fisto
The upcoming Civil War will be about the desire of the Makers to divorce themselves from the Takers.
If we keep on allowing the lazy class to live off the sweat of our brow, society will be what E.G.wells described in, "The Time Machine".


27 posted on 02/25/2013 10:25:07 AM PST by OneVike (I'm just a Christian waiting to go home)
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To: OneVike

Raise import tariffs and put Americans back to work, working for Americans.

It will cost consumers in higher prices, but the net result will be a much richer America where everyone has a job.


28 posted on 02/25/2013 10:34:35 AM PST by DannyTN
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To: null and void; HomeAtLast
This first one is from around 1970, “turn down your lights, cut down on your cooking”...

King Solomon Politician Rag
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g2JUlecBR20

Hoagy Carmichael & Dorothy Dandridge “Lazy Bones” 1941
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWNoKIrH7ms

29 posted on 02/25/2013 10:44:27 AM PST by Son House (Romney Plan: Cap Spending At 20 Percent Of GDP.)
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To: OneVike

I was getting some coffee this morning and thought about this...tax rates, Government spending, waste, fraud, sequestration, on the dole, not on the dole, retirees, public retirees, illegals who work for cash, illegals who are here not working...

What my BA in English mind came up with is the fact the Government has decided, in their infinite wisdom, that the hours, sweat, aging and fruits of the private sector’s labor is MORE IMPORTANT to be GIVEN to PUBLIC EMPLOYEES or GOVERNMENT-DEPENDENT FOLKS vs. the people who provide the capital for them to spend.

It is sort of the backward households that the teenage children take over, abusing mentally or physically their parents. The inmates are running the asylum and their eternal laziness and sense of entitlement HAVE BEEN GIVEN PRIORITY over the PRODUCERS.

See, if you work for a living, you are a sucker, especially if you are working at a low-paying job where the people who come into your business are doing ZILCH and getting your tax dollars to not push a broom, answer phones or ring up people at the register.

The entire system is upside down, the pride of self-determination, thrift, morality and self-denial are systematically being drowned out by the Kardashian-Oscar Party-give-it-to-me-now society that emerged, post Vietnam War era.

I am not Nostradamus, but I can tell you this...one day the credit card (or EBT card), Section 8, SNAP card, AFDC check, subsidized utilities, Medicaid, ObamaPhone and other assorted public and private charities will be finished, and the impact will be that those people will be told the people who took away their lifestyles are the “Evil Rich” who don’t want to share with them. This is 100% opposite the truth as those evil rich have been paying for the party all along, but an agitator like Obama or Jackson could invoke large property destruction and primal or Government-assisted attempts at redistribution of wealth...

There will not be a happy ending to the madness, this is exactly what Cloward & Piven wanted, to overload the system, then take the IRA-401K’s-SEP’s and have Government chop of the remaining wealth as they see fit.

This is not pretend, it’s what the Soros-Frank Marshall Davis-Bill Gates-Sunstein-Holder-Obama-Axelrod-Jarrett want, a new nation based on Communist principles for them to rule over us.

I cannot know the last chapter, but it will be very, very ugly and bloodshed will be unavoidable.


30 posted on 02/25/2013 10:47:17 AM PST by wac3rd (Somewhere in Hell, Ted Kennedy snickers....)
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To: Moonman62

“Good thing you didn’t see what kind of car she was driving.”

I did - it had an Obama sticker.


31 posted on 02/25/2013 10:47:31 AM PST by gattaca ("Great things can be accomplished if you don't care who gets the credit." Ronald Reagan)
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To: gattaca

That’s waaaay more than we live on. Good thing I know how to scrimp and remake my old clothes. Just finished sewing Christmas presents since I can’t afford to waste money. And am currently turning a pair of old pants into shorts and making a garden tote bag from unwearable ratty jeans, and have ideas on turning a stack of fabric samples into a quilt - all without spending a dime. But hey, so happy that woman can afford name-brand clothes and a fancy cell phone on my tax dollars. BTW, my cell phone is an old plain jane that does nothing but phone calls and is on a limited minutes of $5/mo.


32 posted on 02/25/2013 10:53:15 AM PST by bgill
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To: central_va

It also should apply to those working for government. For example, you can’t vote in elections at the level of government that taxes to pay for your compensation. So state employees sit out state elections, municipals sit out city elections, and feds can sit out the national elections. That way the people getting the bite can decide how much they are willing to be bled and government employees can vote with their feet if they feel their talents are not being adequately rewarded in a given position. It brings market forces back to government with the people deciding what services are worth. Yeah, nice dream. I know.


33 posted on 02/25/2013 10:54:05 AM PST by Trod Upon (The Second Amendment acknowledges our inherent right to revolt if tyrannized. It ain't about hunting)
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To: wac3rd
I cannot know the last chapter, but it will be very, very ugly and bloodshed will be unavoidable.


I do, Christ will return, because the anti-christ has gained power through the political vacuum created via world wide civil anarchy.
34 posted on 02/25/2013 10:55:54 AM PST by OneVike (I'm just a Christian waiting to go home)
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To: bgill
,blockquote>Good thing I know how to scrimp and remake my old clothes. Just finished sewing Christmas presents since I can’t afford to waste money. My wife has been putting patches on my shirts, pants, and this past weekend she put a patch on the color of my jean jacket.

We have been in survival mode for almost 15 years, but we have no debt, our home is paid for, and my truck is 24 years old.

Heck, even our Australian Shepherd/Rottweiler mix is pushing 17 1/2 years because she knows we can't afford another dog if she dies....LOL


35 posted on 02/25/2013 11:07:52 AM PST by OneVike (I'm just a Christian waiting to go home)
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To: bgill
Good thing I know how to scrimp and remake my old clothes. Just finished sewing Christmas presents since I can’t afford to waste money.
My wife has been putting patches on my shirts, pants, and this past weekend she put a patch on the color of my jean jacket.

We have been in survival mode for almost 15 years, but we have no debt, our home is paid for, and my truck is 24 years old.

Heck, even our Australian Shepherd/Rottweiler mix is pushing 17 1/2 years because she knows we can't afford another dog if she dies....LOL


36 posted on 02/25/2013 11:08:45 AM PST by OneVike (I'm just a Christian waiting to go home)
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To: bgill
OOPs, that should be,

My wife has been putting patches on my shirts, pants, and this past weekend she put a patch on the color collar of my jean jacket.


37 posted on 02/25/2013 11:12:59 AM PST by OneVike (I'm just a Christian waiting to go home)
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To: OneVike

“The Time Machine” by H.G. Wells was not science fiction but a thinly veiled blueprint. Wells, a hardcore Fabian Socialist and Globalist, also wrote “The Open Conspiracy” and “The New World Order”. He was also pals with that affable chum, Joesph Stalin.


38 posted on 02/25/2013 11:21:39 AM PST by Count of Monte Fisto (Republicans are to the Democrats as the Generals are to the Harlem Globetrotters)
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To: Trod Upon; central_va
"It also should apply to those working for government."

And the majority of fatter commies/fascists not doing any useful work while sitting in offices only to regulate against their neighbors along with their busybody friends (sucking on pensions robbed from true private sector folks) in their jurisdictions. And while we're at it, the useless services that are mostly dependent on government employees, contractors for pork, all. And all of the useless traitors of mercantilism against our own USA.

Oh, that's already going to happen. Have fun. Enjoy the slide. And remember that the two recent mass murderers came from the high and mighty political/regulator class. ;-D


39 posted on 02/25/2013 11:30:27 AM PST by familyop (We Baby Boomers are croaking in an avalanche of rotten politics smelled around the planet.)
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To: OneVike

Well, just got another unexpected expense we can’t afford. The wind is blowing like crazy here and just took off part of the roof. Gusts are supposed to get higher later on so guess it’ll rip off more. If I were living in gov housing, it wouldn’t a worry. Quick, where do I sign up?


40 posted on 02/25/2013 11:35:59 AM PST by bgill
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