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Census Bureau: Means-Tested Gov't Benefit Recipients Outnumber Full-Time Year-Round Workers
CNS News ^ | 10-24-2013 | Terence P. Jeffrey

Posted on 10/25/2013 8:59:28 AM PDT by markomalley

Americans who were recipients of means-tested government benefits in 2011 outnumbered year-round full-time workers, according to data released this month by the Census Bureau. They also out-numbered the total population of the Philippines.

There were 108,592,000 people in the United States in the fourth quarter of 2011 who were recipients of one or more means-tested government benefit programs, the Census Bureau said in data released this week. Meanwhile, according to the Census Bureau, there were 101,716,000 people who worked full-time year round in 2011. That included both private-sector and government workers.

That means there were about 1.07 people getting some form of means-tested government benefit for every 1 person working full-time year round.

The Census Bureau counted as recipients of means-tested government programs “anyone residing in a household in which one or more people received benefits from the program.” Many of these people lived in households receiving more than one form of means-tested benefit at the same time..

(Excerpt) Read more at cnsnews.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government
KEYWORDS: census; fulltimejobs; welfare; workers
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1 posted on 10/25/2013 8:59:28 AM PDT by markomalley
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To: markomalley

That won’t work for long.........


2 posted on 10/25/2013 9:02:30 AM PDT by Red Badger (The only way to defeat liberalism is to give them everything they want......then pick up the pieces.)
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To: markomalley

No wonder I always feel so tired and poor.


3 posted on 10/25/2013 9:02:44 AM PDT by NEMDF
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To: markomalley
Meanwhile, according to the Census Bureau, there were 101,716,000 people who worked full-time year round in 2011. That included both private-sector and government workers.

Take the government workers out of the equation. They do not contribute to the total overall...........In fact, you should include them on the 'benefits' side.........

4 posted on 10/25/2013 9:04:38 AM PDT by Red Badger (The only way to defeat liberalism is to give them everything they want......then pick up the pieces.)
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To: markomalley

The tumor is bigger than the patient.


5 posted on 10/25/2013 9:07:03 AM PDT by SpaceBar
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To: markomalley

You have to be kidding? 108+ million moochers. No wonder the GOP will never win another national election.


6 posted on 10/25/2013 9:07:42 AM PDT by animal172 (Calling Thomas Jefferson)
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To: markomalley

Well, this is the end.


7 posted on 10/25/2013 9:13:00 AM PDT by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: Red Badger

Totally agree. Government workers are part of the problem. They should be on the same side of the equation as the welfare loafers.


8 posted on 10/25/2013 9:14:58 AM PDT by dinodino
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To: markomalley

More Takers than Maker. We are being outvoted.


9 posted on 10/25/2013 9:15:05 AM PDT by CodeToad (Liberals are bloodsucking ticks. We need to light the matchstick to burn them off. -786 +969)
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To: markomalley

Well, there it goes. We have OFFICIALLY hit the tipping point. The takers exceed the producers and they VOTE.

We’re doomed.


10 posted on 10/25/2013 9:16:54 AM PDT by Little Ray (How did I end up in this hand-basket, and why is it getting so hot?)
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To: markomalley

Well, there it goes. We have OFFICIALLY hit the tipping point. The takers exceed the producers and they VOTE.

We’re doomed.


11 posted on 10/25/2013 9:16:59 AM PDT by Little Ray (How did I end up in this hand-basket, and why is it getting so hot?)
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To: markomalley

Well, there it goes. We have OFFICIALLY hit the tipping point. The takers exceed the producers and they VOTE.

We’re doomed.


12 posted on 10/25/2013 9:17:03 AM PDT by Little Ray (How did I end up in this hand-basket, and why is it getting so hot?)
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To: catnipman

Dear God help us.


13 posted on 10/25/2013 9:17:06 AM PDT by yellowdoghunter (Welcome to Obamastan!)
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To: dinodino

I try and try an try to explain this situation to people, and even here on FR it does not seem to sink in. Government workers do not pay taxes....................


14 posted on 10/25/2013 9:17:45 AM PDT by Red Badger (The only way to defeat liberalism is to give them everything they want......then pick up the pieces.)
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To: markomalley

The circle is complete. The United States is officially dead. The working class has now become slaves to the welfare class. No future tax increase will ever be rejected. No spending increase will ever be spurned. It’s over.


15 posted on 10/25/2013 9:18:24 AM PDT by Hoodat (BENGHAZI - 4 KILLED, 2 MIA)
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To: markomalley

BookMark


16 posted on 10/25/2013 9:24:25 AM PDT by thesearethetimes... ("Courage, is fear that has said its prayers." Dorothy Bernard)
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To: Red Badger

do you mean DOD workers both civilian and military, LEOs of all stripes, corrections officers, teachers and highway workers ?


17 posted on 10/25/2013 9:29:28 AM PDT by Seajay (Ordem e Progresso)
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To: dinodino

” Totally agree. Government workers are part of the problem. They should be on the same side of the equation as the welfare loafers.”

Think about it this way: if a welfare office “serves” 100 beneficiaries, it may warrant a GS-7 manager. If it serves 1,000, it may warrant a GS-11. If it serves 100,000, it may warrant a GS-15.

Now, I don’t know the classification guidance nor have I seen the exact manpower standard, but I know that this is the basic philosophy behind staffing levels for government offices.

So there would be an inherent conflict of interest built in to the system.


18 posted on 10/25/2013 9:32:21 AM PDT by markomalley (Nothing emboldens the wicked so greatly as the lack of courage on the part of the good -- Leo XIII)
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To: markomalley

What is that ratio in Texas? Utah? S. Carolina? Georgia? etc. While there are plenty of reasons to be pessimistic, this isn’t the “game over, man” moment, in and of itself. In those states, conservative Republicans win by convincing amounts, and I suspect the ratio is similar to the national numbers.

The only hope of turning this around is a unified opposition party (better if it was the Republican party, but otherwise a 3rd party), where the positions of power (especially at the state level) are dominated by constitutional conservatives who act with the courage of their convictions. Do that, and a unified, simple message, can counter the non-stop barrage of propaganda (for the first time in almost 30 years).

Enough people will vote against their immediate economic self-interest. But only if they believe in the cause, and know that the people who believe in the cause are fully committed.


19 posted on 10/25/2013 9:33:14 AM PDT by jjsheridan5 (what would efren do?)
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To: Red Badger

101,716,000 people who worked full-time year round in 2011. “That included both private-sector and government workers.”
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That means the situation is REALLY DIRE! It does not say how many government workers but they are costing more than the other recipients, every penny a government worker receives comes from those who are working at private jobs. All those who are busy signing up people for bennies and paying out those bennies are themselves living off bennies. Meanwhile many of those who work full time barely make a living, some of them are drawing bennies even though they work. We are rapidly approaching the point where the pretense must collapse. We are like Wiley Coyote in mid-air, as soon as we look down it is all over.


20 posted on 10/25/2013 9:33:51 AM PDT by RipSawyer (The TREE currently falling on you actually IS worse than a Bush.)
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