100 Million Americans now on some form of welfare

American Thinker ^ | 08/09/2012 | Rick Moran

[SeekAndFind]

The future? Or simply the high point of dependency before a reverse?

That's what the election will be about.

The Weekly Standard:

A new chart set to be released later today by the Republican side of the Senate Budget Committee details a startling statistic: "Over 100 Million People in U.S. Now Receiving Some Form Of Federal Welfare."

"The federal government administers nearly 80 different overlapping federal means-tested welfare programs," the Senate Budget Committee notes. However, the committee states, the figures used in the chart do not include those who are only benefiting from Social Security and/or Medicare. 

Food stamps and Medicaid make up a large--and growing--chunk of the more than 100 million recipients. "Among the major means tested welfare programs, since 2000 Medicaid has increased from 34 million people to 54 million in 2011 and the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP, or food stamps) from 17 million to 45 million in 2011," says the Senate Budget Committee. "Spending on food stamps alone is projected to reach $800 billion over the next decade."

[EGPWS]

The new greetings standard under the reign of 0bama:

"Hi, I'm EGPWS and I'm a payer. Are you a payer or a payee"?

"What sign are you, Gold or Visa"?

[Red Badger]

Platinum and Sapphire...........

[VanDeKoik]

I’ve come across many of them on a daily basis. People that can barely understand basic English or math can tell you the ins and outs of welfare programs like with the confidence and expertise equal to listening to a rocket scientist talk about Orbital State Vectors.

[Mr Rogers]

I don’t get out much, but I’ve encountered the same thing. There were some folks in their 20s at a get together acting bored and listless. But when one of them mentioned public assistance, they perked up and jumped in with comments like

“Tell the XYZ - they love it and you will automatically be enrolled in this and that and THEN you can apply for this state program & the county will provide you...”

and

“They NEVER check! That’s the beauty - it is your word alone.”

I had to leave before I got in a fight. If they put half that much effort into a business, they’d become a huge success - but then, they think they ARE a huge success because they play the government agencies like a computer game...they know every rule, when to apply what, what disability gets you the most cash for the least risk, etc.

[Will88]

These stats leave me wondering what percentage of working age heads of household, or working age adults with or without dependents, what percentage now are being supported by the government (taxpayers). Probably at least 20% of working age adults are receiving various forms of welfare, and maybe as much as 25%.

Other reports show that this welfare now costs more than $1 trillion per year. There is no hope of ever balancing the budget and getting our fiscal matters under control until at least half of welfare expenditures are eliminated by working age adults getting off welfare and becoming employed.

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[littleharbour]

Add in all the federal, state and municipal employees, public school teachers, and University professors, it means that there are more than 50% of Americans who feel dependent on Big Government. The only reason that the Republicans are competitive at all on the national scale is because many of the bloodsuckers are too lazy to vote. Obama’s success in 2008 was because he was able to motivate enough of the naive youth and the welfare types to put him over the top, while McCain depressed turnout by conservatives. The result in 2012 will be largely based on which party can get its base to show up at the polls. If Romney can convince people that a second Obama term is a disaster, then he may get enough conservatives to hold their nose and put him over the top.

[Jewbacca]

100,000,000 out of 314,000,000

1/3

= Democrat base

[muawiyah]

Hmm, folks who work for a living and pay for their own retirement really don’t look at it as a handout ~ not from you or anybody.

[pallis]

Great comments.... The people who are around me know better than to chatter about welfare, except my wife. People from one of the local Indian tribes are always telling her to sign up for their commodities, and even though she has never gotten them, she knows all the rules and ways to game the system. And then there are people gaming the public education system, the medical system. You name it, and there is a way to game it. It’s the American way. With all of Obama’s job killing policies on the way, it is going to become the only way young people know, until it comes to grinding halt.

[crosshairs]

How many are not even legally Americans.

[Night Hides Not]

You forgot defense contractors, GE, and Wall Street.

[Opinionated Blowhard]

Reason # 1 why any Welfare State, including our own, eventually collapses. And we are at that point now. Everyone’s attitude is “Gimme gimme gimme and make someone else pay for it.” Too many takers and not enough producers.

[itssme]

I heard a story about a Church food pantry the other day. The Church also gathers used clothing and furniture to be raffled off to those in line at the food pantry on that day. As soon as the illegal aliens and their kids (no one speaks English) and the Link card crowd walked into the pantry, in order to be registered, they saw the goods cordoned off in another part of the room and rushed to grab whatever they could of the clothing, household items and furniture. The church volunteers had to remind the people that the items were going to be raffled off, and went to each person and took the merchandise back to the cordoned area of the room..and if you didn't speak English, well, you don't know what is going on.

This is the ugly side of entitlement programs, the people who perpetually have their hands out for freebes, feel that they are owed, entitled to anything and everything..didn't obozo tell them so, for the vote, of course? The Link Card
crowd on the other hand demand, expect to receive any and all entitlements, freebes they can grab onto. It is a generational way of life for them. And then there are those who are employed, earning an income, but who yet feel that if the government/oboma is giving away something free, to be paid for by the taxpayers, why shouldn't they take advantage and make a grab for it also. Years ago, you would not take assistance from the government unless you were in dire straits...today, everybody’s doing it, so why not?!

The freebe merry-go-round must be overhauled after obozo is kicked out of OUR White House. Rules and regulations have to be put in place by a govt. who will hold people to be accountable and follow the rules. And we must once again instil the moral value of WORKING by the sweat of OUR brow for what WE want, in order to achieve OUR goals.

Hope to see this in my lifetime again..for the sake of the future of our country.

[Leep]

My little isolated “hometown” in n.pa was way ahead of the curb.
The Mayor said years ago that half the residents were on some form of relief.
To think all of America, if they didn’t start out that way, will become potato heads who justify their right to confiscate other people’s hard earned money via taxes because they have backaches.
Its especially embarassing to see 20/30 somethings out in public in pjs and half awake from sleeping in until noon every day.

[Leep]

Backaches should have been “backaches” and I meant to include some form of “mental anxiety” as well.

[Paladin2]

"way ahead of the curb"

Curve, unless you have been kicked.

[SeekAndFind]

RE: My little isolated “hometown” in n.pa was way ahead of the curb.
The Mayor said years ago that half the residents were on some form of relief.

___________________

How long ago was that? Was this the case in your hometown before Obama was elected President?

[JustSayNoToNannies]

The Link Card crowd

A number of times I've seen people in line at the grocery store in pricier clothes than mine buying pricier food than I ever do - and paying for it with a Link card. Leeches.