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Welfare, Not Full-Time Work, Is Now America's No. 1 Occupation
Investor's Business Daily ^
| October 25, 2013
| The Editors
Posted on 10/25/2013 6:53:34 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Edited on 10/26/2013 3:25:23 PM PDT by Admin Moderator.
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Dependency: "Is Welfare The New Normal?" we wondered in an editorial last Thursday, and we didn't have long to wait for an answer. On Friday an answer came back in depressing new data from the Census Bureau.
CNSNews.com's indefatigable data hound, Terence P. Jeffrey, dug into a few routine Census releases recently and discovered something shocking: More people in America today are on welfare than have full-time jobs.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.investors.com ...
TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Front Page News; Government
KEYWORDS: bho44; dependency; economy; employment; obama; obamalegacy; welfare; welfarestate
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Unsustainable.
To: 2ndDivisionVet
I agree 100%.
We need to make things in America.
We need to stop importing everything, and we need to balance our trade.
We need to do all those things.
We are spending our country.
BRING BACK AMERICAN JOBS.
Now.
To: 2ndDivisionVet
THere are now more people on the wagon than pulling it.
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posted on
10/25/2013 6:56:10 PM PDT
by
Blood of Tyrants
(From time to time the.tree of liberty must be watered with the blood of tyrants and patriots.)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Why work when you can make more money living on the Government dole (welfare, food stamps, housing subsidies, etc), not to mention you are eligible for Medicaid.
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posted on
10/25/2013 6:57:14 PM PDT
by
doc1019
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Why should they work? Obama EO’d the ‘Secretary’ (Sebelius, of course) the power to tell states that they no longer have to get proof that anyone on welfare is actually looking for a job. Free money at the expense of hard working Americans who believe you should work for what you have. Obama did not grow up in America. HE HAS NO WORK ETHIC HIMSELF. Why should his minions have a work ethic??
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posted on
10/25/2013 6:57:43 PM PDT
by
originalbuckeye
(Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
The thing is more people want to be on welfare then work.....very sad
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posted on
10/25/2013 6:59:00 PM PDT
by
tophat9000
(Are we headed to a Cracker Slacker War?)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
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posted on
10/25/2013 6:59:44 PM PDT
by
BunnySlippers
(I LOVE BULL MARKETS . . .)
To: Blood of Tyrants
Maybe we should stop pulling and see what happens...
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posted on
10/25/2013 7:00:30 PM PDT
by
One Name
(Ultimately, the TRUTH is a razor's edge and no man can sit astride it.)
To: originalbuckeye
Wonder what they mean on that chart by “Federal Supplemental Security Income?” Is that Social Security disability or something else?
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posted on
10/25/2013 7:02:31 PM PDT
by
2ndDivisionVet
(Ted Cruz/Sarah Palin 2016)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
I can understand where some people get on it to survive the way the job market is but as we know there are many more who are on it because it is there and they do not want to work and/or it is the only thing they know after being on it for generations. This is unsustainable and a bad thing for this country as we all know.
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posted on
10/25/2013 7:02:58 PM PDT
by
Nowhere Man
(I miss you, Whitey! (4-15-2001 - 10-12-2012) It has been a year, rest in peace, pretty girl!)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Meanwhile, there were just 101.7 million people with full-time jobs, the Census data show, including both the private and government sectors. This makes it far worse than the head line would suggest because the government is now the nations largest individual employer.
It all the worse because government workers taxes debts are paid from private sector worker’s taxes. Very few government workers actually contribute to the nations GDP.
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posted on
10/25/2013 7:03:49 PM PDT
by
Pontiac
(The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit.)
To: Blood of Tyrants
any type of welfare should mean no voting rights!
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posted on
10/25/2013 7:04:58 PM PDT
by
fabian
(" And a new day will dawn for those who stand long, and the forests will echo in laughter")
To: 2ndDivisionVet
And there are now more corrupt unionized government employees than exist in all of private sector America.
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posted on
10/25/2013 7:05:08 PM PDT
by
dragnet2
(Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
To: originalbuckeye
I played golf about 25 years ago for the last time. My boy discovered the clubs in the barn and trashed them after breaking some stuff with worm-burners and short shots.
obama has lead a much more charmed life than I; he wouldn’t last a good day out here.
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posted on
10/25/2013 7:05:42 PM PDT
by
One Name
(Ultimately, the TRUTH is a razor's edge and no man can sit astride it.)
To: Pontiac
This makes it far worse than the head line would suggest because the government is now the nations largest individual employer.
____________________________________________________
See #13.
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posted on
10/25/2013 7:09:01 PM PDT
by
dragnet2
(Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
They can’t possibly increase taxes enough to cover the monthly nut.
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posted on
10/25/2013 7:09:34 PM PDT
by
Veggie Todd
(I don't always talk to Obama voters, but when I do I ask for Large Fries.)
To: fabian
any type of welfare should mean no voting rights!
Agreed. I always favored a test before one can vote where they need to know how to read and speak English, know basic math and history as well. Go on welfare, you lose the vote until you get off of it plus a 6 month waiting period. The exceptions are if one gets welfare from being disable for a bona fide reason, but they still have to pass the test.
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posted on
10/25/2013 7:10:30 PM PDT
by
Nowhere Man
(I miss you, Whitey! (4-15-2001 - 10-12-2012) It has been a year, rest in peace, pretty girl!)
To: One Name
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posted on
10/25/2013 7:10:54 PM PDT
by
Blood of Tyrants
(From time to time the.tree of liberty must be watered with the blood of tyrants and patriots.)
To: Blood of Tyrants
“There are now more people on the wagon than pulling it.”
And if that continues beyond 2016 at the very latest, America is lost! WTF is wrong with the people in this country that they are willing to trade their freedom for “false security.”
To: 2ndDivisionVet
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posted on
10/25/2013 7:11:26 PM PDT
by
dragnet2
(Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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