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This just adds to the pool of voters who receive benefits from the government.

I haven't done an exact calculation, but I am going to guess that if the average poor person in this country had to find a job and replace all the government benefits with an actual paycheck, that poor person would probably have to make around $30-35,000 per year before taxes. I'm sure somebody might have already worked that calculation out, but I have never seen it.

No wonder then that poor people have no incentive to find a job that probably does not exist in the market today.

Add that to around 6,000,000 people who have dropped out of the American work-force during Obama's term so far, and Obama wanting to put 800,000 illegals into the work force, and it will be very difficult for anybody to remove the idle from the benefit gangs.

A local hotel has closed for a major renovation leaving several of their employees out of a job.

A local fraternal organization who rents their hall for weddings etc. was looking for someone to run the banquet operations at a salary in the low $30,000 range. Several of these unemployed but qualified employees were approached about this position.

They all declined. Their reason - not working was the best option for them right now based on the current unemployment and other benefits they would receive.

I”m not repeating this story. I personally talked to them.

It's called cloward/piven strategy and seems to be working well under ozero. Don't forget ten million more food stampers heavily encouraged by the regime. Just too frigging much to fathom! Cananyone here imagine Ronald reagan doing adds for more food stampers?!!

No wonder we are so frustrated here!! With all this obvious destruction of a once great nation going on right under our noses and only a handful of people acknowledging it.

I am going to guess that if the average poor person in this country had to find a job and replace all the government benefits with an actual paycheck, that poor person would probably have to make around $30-35,000 per year before taxes.

I've looked into that myself. $30k is probably way too high. If you factor in Social Security -- and I don't believe you should, seeing that it is mandatory -- the ~~beneficiary~~ moocher gets less in food stamps, cash assistance and medicaid. But let's say someone is getting no Social Security. Food stamps would be around $2k a year; heating assistance, maybe $1k; cash assistance for one person, nowhere even close to $10k. You would have to throw in some kids and their public schooling -- which I do consider a govt handout -- to get up around $30k.

Remember that aside from schooling, nearly all the welfare benefits are adjusted according to a person's income and assets.

However, if a person merely owns their home and one car, they can live quite comfortably on the backs of the taxpayers.