[RetiredTexasVet]

At 49% now, but what happens when it creeps to 55% percent or so? Will the 55% vote for anyone or anything that threatens the freebees .... I doubt it. What we will have is the 45% giving up, fleeing or more likely fighting.

[ILS21R]

It won’t take long to find out.

[muawiyah]

As the Great Obama Recession sweeps on more and more families find their savings wiped out, and their homes forclosed. Consequently they move in together, so you have more 3 generation homes ~ grandparents, parents and children ~ with the grandparents on Social Security!

Before the parents and children were NOT in a household with someone receiving federal benefits.

The parents and children DID NOT become freeloaders by moving Grandpa and Grandma in!

BTW, those used to be Conservative values ~ to take care of your own people first. Now we have a crowd, apparently being led by Romney and Hannity, who are condemning the practice.

So, what happened to America?

[Salgak]

I expect, sooner than later, that we’re going to implement Jerry Pournelle’s “Welfare Island” concept.

It was background to some fiction, but basically America gets divided into two classes: Citizens and Taxpayers. You don’t pay taxes you live in “Welfare Islands”: huge buildings where you live, are fed, and kept entertained with TV, booze, and drugs. If you work hard at it, you CAN get out of them. . .but most don’t bother.

Twenty years ago, it was purely fictional. How long until something like it actually emerges ???