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The 35.4 Percent: 109,631,000 on Welfare
CNS ^ | August 20, 2014 | Terence P. Jeffrey

Posted on 08/20/2014 7:09:30 AM PDT by xzins

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There is no way that any nation can continue to rack up this kind of expense, have near the lowest labor participation rate in its history, add a HUGE new entitlement program, and keep its head above water.

If interest rates rise for any reason, then the nation's budget becomes mush as interest payments on the national debt soar.

1 posted on 08/20/2014 7:09:30 AM PDT by xzins
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Andy you thought the riots over the fully-justified shooting of Michael Brown were bad? Wait until all of those people get their bennies cut when the economy collapses. You ain’t seen nuthin’ yet.


2 posted on 08/20/2014 7:11:40 AM PDT by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin (Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so others don't have to do it for you.)
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It’s just a matter of time.We’re doomed to civil war,insurrection and the destruction of the Republic.


3 posted on 08/20/2014 7:12:39 AM PDT by Farmer Dean (stop worrying about what they want to do to you,start thinking about what you want to do to them)
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To: xzins

had a 200 pound small height woman in front of me the other day.
We pay nearly 300 a week for food etc, and yet she had twice as much as us.

3 parts she paid for.
One welfare food stamp card for food, next a flimsy paper card for toilet paper etc, and another card for utensils etc.

No wonder she was laughing a joking in front of us.

Saw her later getting in her nice new vehicle, but I can’t say anything as that would be racist.

Also ever noticed that those on welfare are not that thin, so they are hardly starving.


4 posted on 08/20/2014 7:13:38 AM PDT by manc (Marriage =1 man + 1 woman,when they say marriage equality then they should support polygamy)
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Conservatives keep talking about a “tipping point.” With one hundred million people getting some type of transfer payment, we already are passed the tipping point. We are in a Welfare State death spiral where people don’t have the maturity or emotional toughness to cut back on transfer payments. The answers keep coming back to “have someone else pay for it” by either borrowing or taxing the mythical “rich.”


5 posted on 08/20/2014 7:13:54 AM PDT by Opinionated Blowhard ("When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.")
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You are correct and the trend is moving in the wrong direction.

Something has to give. If the trend is reversed, there will be a soft landing. The trend will not be reversed. There will be a very, very, hard landing, as in lots of deaths.

6 posted on 08/20/2014 7:14:30 AM PDT by Former Proud Canadian
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To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin

When interest rates begin to rise, then look out. Trouble’s coming.

Two of England’s major banks were calling for interest increases yesterday, I think. That will come here.

My bank is paying .1% for a savings account. I didn’t say 1%. I said .1%. That cannot sustain. I saw 2% on a FIVE YEAR CD being offered by some bank.


7 posted on 08/20/2014 7:15:26 AM PDT by xzins ( Retired Army Chaplain and Proud of It! Those who truly support our troops pray for victory!)
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REDISTRIBUTION -— What Hussein promised to Joe-the-Plumber in 2008


8 posted on 08/20/2014 7:15:28 AM PDT by TRY ONE (I never got the memo on changing 'Global Warming' to 'Climate Change'!)
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To: Opinionated Blowhard

well, we have fully 1/3 of people in this country on public assistance of some kind.

Can a nation survive long term with such a dependent class?


9 posted on 08/20/2014 7:16:40 AM PDT by Dilbert San Diego (s)
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To: xzins

I agree.

Why does nonworking American make many times more than the unskilled worker of China?

I’m thinking it is because they are being held up by all the skilled capitalists in USA, but as that number drops, our unskilled or nonworking will head towards Chinese pay levels.


10 posted on 08/20/2014 7:16:41 AM PDT by MNDude
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The only thing that lets this farce continue is the US dollar reserve currency status. The day that ends is the day the entire rotten structure comes crashing down.


11 posted on 08/20/2014 7:19:40 AM PDT by Kozak ("It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal" Henry Kissinger)
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Add in the State and local transfer payment recipients.


12 posted on 08/20/2014 7:19:47 AM PDT by Paladin2
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14 posted on 08/20/2014 7:21:45 AM PDT by BCW (ARMIS EXPOSCERE PACEM)
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To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin

Gerald Celente, who has been right more often than not, predicted this would happen. Timing? Maybe not so much, end state? Celente nails it.

People will explode when they lose the freebies.

The question is when? This year? Next year? This decade? Manipulation of currencies and markets, the glut of 660 trillion in debt worldwide is already well beyond any fix imaginable.

People will die. It will not end well for any but the elite. They will have food, water, shelter and medical care while the world burns around them.

Well, I just depressed myself. However, I am open to anyone that has a brighter future scenario to share.


15 posted on 08/20/2014 7:21:54 AM PDT by the anti-mahdi
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And this welfare can never be reduced without riots not unlike America has never seen before. Millions will tear America apart.

By the way once again, miss Romney yet. That was the biggest mistake millions of ignorant Americans will regret. You have taken the biggest part in America’s destruction.


16 posted on 08/20/2014 7:22:03 AM PDT by Logical me
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And when the ChiCom types take over, then they will STOP handing out money and will make the peasants work for their gruel. Some ask why the Chamber of Commerce supports socialist policies and illegal immigration. Probably because money and power are interchangeable depending on the governmental system in which you live.

They consider themselves the elite now. They think they’ll also be the elite then. And power in a socialist system is as good as money in a social corporatist system.


17 posted on 08/20/2014 7:22:10 AM PDT by xzins ( Retired Army Chaplain and Proud of It! Those who truly support our troops pray for victory!)
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Is that not insanity?!

Why would any sane nation add millions more to its already huge welfare rolls? The only answer: ulterior motive.


19 posted on 08/20/2014 7:23:39 AM PDT by xzins ( Retired Army Chaplain and Proud of It! Those who truly support our troops pray for victory!)
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Barack Hussein Obama Junior is the chief coward of barack cowards like Eric Holder

(Holder is an admitted rioter with an illegal handgun in college)






20 posted on 08/20/2014 7:24:00 AM PDT by devolve (- next : a very special guest appearance by Ms. Baracka Husseina Obamamama -)
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