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Entitlement America: Family on Welfare now has more disposable income than 60K Middle Class family
Zerohedge ^ | "Tyler Durban"

Posted on 11/21/2010 10:44:59 PM PST by TeachableMoment

~ Emmerich analyzes disposable income and economic benefits among several key income classes and comes to the stunning (and verifiable) conclusion that "a one-parent family of three making $14,500 a year (minimum wage) has more disposable income than a family making $60,000 a year." And that excludes benefits from Supplemental Security Income disability checks.

America is now a country which punishes those middle-class people who not only try to work hard, but avoid scamming the system. Not surprisingly, it is not only the richest and most audacious thieves that prosper - it is also the penny scammers at the very bottom of the economic ladder that rip off the middle class each and every day, courtesy of the world's most generous entitlement system.

(Excerpt) Read more at zerohedge.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: disposableincome; entitlements; npftl; obama
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To: TeachableMoment

I’m not quite to $60K, after a graduate degree, 30+ years of full-time work, a second language and the highest certification in my field. I always wondered how people with Access Cards can buy better food and drive better cars than I can afford.


41 posted on 11/22/2010 2:26:14 PM PST by Vigilanteman (Obama: Fake black man. Fake Messiah. Fake American. How many fakes can you fit in one Zer0?)
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To: Islander7

“And another thing, government employees are parasites on the backs of the productive private sector”

This is an article on Welfare not on government employees. You take any opportunity to trash government workers but probably fail to consider that government employees include military. My husband served 23 years in the military and now works for the VA. We are not parasites and my husband is the hardest working man I know.


42 posted on 11/22/2010 2:34:32 PM PST by imskylark
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To: imskylark
Purveyors of Parasitism.
43 posted on 11/22/2010 2:38:07 PM PST by screaminsunshine (Americanism vs Communism)
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To: TeachableMoment
NO PITY FOR THE LAZY!!!
44 posted on 11/22/2010 3:18:27 PM PST by Chode (American Hedonist - *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
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To: TeachableMoment

If you are an elite and you can get the po to attack the middle, you are insulated. Insulated.


45 posted on 11/22/2010 3:23:11 PM PST by ichabod1 (Hail Mary Full of Grace, The Lord Is With Thee...)
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To: Slyfox

You jues ogtsa keep movin it aroun


46 posted on 11/22/2010 3:27:49 PM PST by ichabod1 (Hail Mary Full of Grace, The Lord Is With Thee...)
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To: TeachableMoment

My wife was going to give a girl that worked for her a promotion and a raise. The girl objected because it would disqualify her from getting the free child care the state pays for her and it would be a net loss. Haven’t seen my wife that mad in a long time. She told the girl she could quit or get the raise. She quit.


47 posted on 11/22/2010 3:57:35 PM PST by optiguy (Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them.----- Ronald Reagan)
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To: TeachableMoment

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48 posted on 11/22/2010 4:23:52 PM PST by PMAS
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To: Reddy

Easy fix:
Amend the Constitution to:
1) forbid the withholding of monies from wages [or investments],
AND
2) forbid the seizure of assets without jury-trial.


49 posted on 11/22/2010 4:31:20 PM PST by OneWingedShark (Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)
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To: imskylark
This is an article on Welfare not on government employees. You take any opportunity to trash government workers but probably fail to consider that government employees include military. My husband served 23 years in the military and now works for the VA. We are not parasites and my husband is the hardest working man I know.

Yes, all government employees are parasites on the private sector. There is a symbiotic necessity for some government, but not at the level we currently have.

I'm a vet too, I utilize the VA system too. I'm not calling for the elimination of government. I am not saying that all government employees are moochers. I certainly am not saying all government agencies are not necessary; I staunchly support the military.

What I am saying is that government is to too big, way too big. It is killing the host. Fact is, government could be cut down in size and still function within its constitutionally mandated sphere. Welfare is a tool of government so my comments are relevant to the article.

My regards to your husband for his service. Have a happy Thanksgiving.

50 posted on 11/22/2010 4:33:06 PM PST by Islander7 (If you want to anger conservatives, lie to them. If you want to anger liberals, tell them the truth.)
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To: TeachableMoment

bump


51 posted on 11/22/2010 5:01:34 PM PST by badgerlandjim
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To: rawhide

That is utterly disgusting. It’s even worse if a family is on a pension and working part, part time. The EITC might help.


52 posted on 11/22/2010 6:34:30 PM PST by madison10
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To: rawhide
Take a look at this and then remember what has happened to those taxes that were paid before so many people lost their jobs. Fewer and fewer people are carrying the load. And some morons are talking about taking away the mortgage interest deduction...one of the few tax benefits the middle class has left.
53 posted on 11/22/2010 6:38:52 PM PST by madison10
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To: Reddy

I’ll tell you another problem with EIC. It is a disincentive to earn more. Like higher taxes which penalize you when you get a couple raises or work long and hard enough to make almost decent money. This country is fubar.


54 posted on 11/22/2010 6:41:29 PM PST by visualops (Proud Air Force Mom)
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To: TeachableMoment

I was thinking about this the other day. Tere are essentially 3 classes of people who are insulated from economic downturns:

1- The ultra rich
2- Fedreal Government workers
3- The so-called poor whose entitlements just keep flowing.

All three groups could care less about a recession. There lifestyles will not be affected at all.


55 posted on 11/22/2010 7:15:47 PM PST by Awgie (truth is always stranger than fiction)
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To: AdmSmith; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; bigheadfred; ColdOne; Convert from ECUSA; Delacon; ...
Thanks TeachableMoment.
56 posted on 11/22/2010 9:28:58 PM PST by SunkenCiv (The 2nd Amendment follows right behind the 1st because some people are hard of hearing.)
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To: x_plus_one
You can thank George Bush I for EITC.

Why?

57 posted on 11/23/2010 12:53:07 AM PST by VeniVidiVici (Defund National Peoples Radio!! Democrats are for free speech. Just not for you.)
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To: visualops
I’ll tell you another problem with EIC. It is a disincentive to earn more.

On that theme, I've heard of many cases where someone will quit working at some point during the year just before they've reached an income level where certain "benefits" such as EIC are cut off.

58 posted on 11/23/2010 6:50:25 AM PST by meyer (Hey Obama - It's the end of the world as you know it.... ..... and I feel fine!)
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To: RikaStrom; SeaDragon
Hmmmm... so why is the National Urban League running millions of $$ worth of commercials on TV whining about "economic justice"??

Obviously, they define that term differently than I do. True economic justice, IMO, would be working hard and keeping what you earned.

When Barry O says it would be better "to spread the wealth around", he ignores the "spreading" that is already taking place. Or, as I prefer to call it: confiscation.

59 posted on 11/24/2010 5:43:17 AM PST by TheGrimReaper (Save America - Fire a democrat.)
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To: TeachableMoment

The numbers were wrong:
http://hoystory.com/?p=6847


60 posted on 12/19/2010 1:21:19 PM PST by Gondring (Paul Revere would have been flamed as a naysayer troll and told to go back to Boston.)
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