[SmoothTalker]

“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?

[festus]

Yup. Though I figure if the Dems had it the % would be higher.

Choose the devil or the deep blue sea.

[Beagle8U]

“Is this what a decade of Republican rule in congress and six years in the White House get us?”

News flash. It is bound to be up because the “Boomers” started retiring a few years ago. All the BS the media prints about the boomers will start retiring in a few more years is just that, BS.

The boomers were born from 1944-1958 and they have been retiring for the past 2-5 years. From 55 yrs on you loose alot of them to disability and many have passed 62yrs.

It will get much worse in the next 2-5 yrs.

[garbanzo]

s this what a decade of Republican rule in congress and six years in the White House get us?

Yep. But don't worry we'll keep pressing the Demopublican levers just like we always have.