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Over Half of Americans On the Government Dole
NewsMax ^
| April 16, 2007
Posted on 04/15/2007 9:23:59 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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Wasn't the government formed to defend the country, deliver the mail, and assorted other minor tasks? What happened?
To: 2ndDivisionVet
the entire government is on the tax payer dole. it is not he government’s money... it is the people’s. there.
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posted on
04/15/2007 9:25:46 PM PDT
by
Cinnamon
To: 2ndDivisionVet
I didn’t get my check. I think I should protest to sue to go protest for it...
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posted on
04/15/2007 9:26:09 PM PDT
by
kinoxi
To: 2ndDivisionVet
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posted on
04/15/2007 9:26:16 PM PDT
by
The_Republican
(So Dark The Con of Man)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
“Slightly over half of all Americans 52.6 percent now receive significant income from government programs, according to an analysis by Gary Shilling, an economist in Springfield, N.J. That’s up from 49.4 percent in 2000 and far above the 28.3 percent of Americans in 1950. If the trend continues, the percentage could rise within ten years to pass 55 percent, where it stood in 1980 on the eve of President’s Reagan’s move to scale back the size of government.”
Is this what a decade of Republican rule in congress and six years in the White House get us?
To: 2ndDivisionVet
What does Shilling consider to be a job dependant on government spending? The company I work for has a number of governmental clients (fed and state), of course we also have every single Fortune 500 company as clients. Is my job dependant on government spending? Given that that accounts for 20% of his 52% I think we need the term defined.
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posted on
04/15/2007 9:27:45 PM PDT
by
discostu
(The fat lady laughs, gentlemen, start your trucks)
To: discostu
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posted on
04/15/2007 9:29:13 PM PDT
by
kinoxi
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Half???? Well, there’s the dim voters.
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posted on
04/15/2007 9:29:18 PM PDT
by
processing please hold
(Duncan Hunter '08) (ROP and Open Borders-a terrorist marriage and hell's coming with them)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
"New Deal programs persist," despite the Reagan revolution and its aftermath, says James Galbraith, an economist at the University of Texas in Austin. "They persist because they are largely successful and highly popular." New Deal programs persist because the sponge off of one segment of society and give to another. The spongers then vote for continued sponging.
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posted on
04/15/2007 9:29:27 PM PDT
by
Quick or Dead
(Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms - Aristotle)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Aging baby boomers. Will only get worse.
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posted on
04/15/2007 9:30:20 PM PDT
by
TASMANIANRED
(Taz Struck By Lightning Faces Battery Charge)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
And it’s not just our federal government that bloated, but international global institutions. Funding for the U.N. system has grown from $3.1 billion in 2001 to $5.3 billion in 2005.
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posted on
04/15/2007 9:30:33 PM PDT
by
endthematrix
(a globalized and integrated world - which is coming, one way or the other. - Hillary)
To: Quick or Dead
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posted on
04/15/2007 9:30:38 PM PDT
by
processing please hold
(Duncan Hunter '08) (ROP and Open Borders-a terrorist marriage and hell's coming with them)
To: TASMANIANRED
worse than SS....federal, state, county and city civil service pensions........it’ll make the SS crisis seem gentle by comparison.....
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posted on
04/15/2007 9:32:57 PM PDT
by
cherry
To: 2ndDivisionVet
He forgot to mention the farmers who get paid not to grow certain crops and teachers who work for local school districts but whose paychecks are covered with federal education money.
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posted on
04/15/2007 9:34:03 PM PDT
by
3AngelaD
To: Cinnamon
HOW DO WE TAKE OUR COUNTRY BACK?!!
To: cherry
When the time comes that money has to be cut from welfare entitlements or from seniors, the seniors are going to lose.
When was the last time you saw geriatrics riot ??
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posted on
04/15/2007 9:36:49 PM PDT
by
Centurion2000
(Killing all of your enemies without mercy is the only sure way of sleeping soundly at night.)
To: Centurion2000
here come the baby boomers....hopefully most have saved a penny or two on their way towards old age and wont need government assistance. heopfully!
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posted on
04/15/2007 9:39:32 PM PDT
by
river west
(river)
To: SmoothTalker
Yup. Though I figure if the Dems had it the % would be higher.
Choose the devil or the deep blue sea.
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posted on
04/15/2007 9:41:08 PM PDT
by
festus
(The constitution may be flawed but its a whole lot better than what we have now.)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
"Mr. Shilling's analysis found that about 1 in 5 Americans hold a government job or a job reliant on federal spending."
Scary.
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Wasn't the government formed to defend the country, deliver the mail, and assorted other minor tasks? What happened? F.D.R. is one answer.
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posted on
04/15/2007 9:42:20 PM PDT
by
Graybeard58
(Remember and pray for SSgt. Matt Maupin - MIA/POW- Iraq since 04/09/04)
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