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Why Work? Household Welfare Spending $168 Per Day, Higher Than Median Income
Independent Journal Review ^ | December 10, 2012 | Kyle Becker

Posted on 01/28/2013 1:40:39 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

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1 posted on 01/28/2013 1:40:47 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I haven’t seen Atlas Shrugged II yet, don’t tell me how it ends.


2 posted on 01/28/2013 1:47:02 AM PST by Casie (Chuck Norris 2016)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Just wow.


3 posted on 01/28/2013 1:48:59 AM PST by Westbrook (Children do not divide your love, they multiply it.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Yeah—I got it-—but I wish I hadn’t......I was much happier not knowing that.


4 posted on 01/28/2013 1:50:18 AM PST by basil (basil)
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Sorry ‘bout the multiple posts—’puters’s acting up this AM


16 posted on 01/28/2013 1:53:28 AM PST by basil (basil)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Good luck getting anybody here to care about this!

Every time a debate starts here about ‘entitlements’ I post the link below. Follow it and download the .pdf report and you will become physically ill. It will quickly become apparent that the welfare problem makes Defense, Medicare, and Social Security look like parking tickets!

http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2009/09/obama-to-spend-103-trillion-on-welfare-uncovering-the-full-cost-of-means-tested-welfare-or-aid-to-the-poor


18 posted on 01/28/2013 2:16:14 AM PST by I cannot think of a name
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The good news is that I plan to get a new computer next week.


19 posted on 01/28/2013 2:29:19 AM PST by basil (basil)
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I’ve been on welfare twice in my life. Once, during the 1990-1994 recession, when I was on it for five months, and more recently, during this current economic Charlie Foxtrot, I was forced to go back on it for several months. I assure you that I don’t find being on the dole even REMOTELY pleasant, in fact it made me feel like some sort of criminal.

The only thing that bothers me more about the whole system is that in many ways it’s like a pitcher plant. It’s hard to get out of it, especially when all you can find is minimum wage jobs. There really has to be some sort of more effective methodology than “work or starve” on one extreme and the “nanny state” on the other, but the system really is broken.


20 posted on 01/28/2013 2:37:10 AM PST by Kriggerel ("All great truths are hard and bitter, but lies... are sweeter than wild honey" (Ragnar Redbeard))
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