Posted on 10/25/2013 8:59:28 AM PDT by markomalley
Yes........
bkmk
So, uh...if those of us in the production side just throw in the towel...when do the food riots start?
What a surprise.
And there are about 22 MILLION Federal "workers", according to http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/series/USGOVT/
Thus, the net NONfederal workers is then about 80 million. Note that this adjusted number still includes STATE and local government "workers".
Most government "workers" vote Dem.
Stick a fork in it. ITS DONE.
Why waste time your perseverating on national politics and on national elections anymore?
It’s official: More people vote for a living than work for a living.
We’re a nation of parasites.
Everyone has a rationale for why their subsidy is crucial and cannot be eliminated or even cut back.
(The GOP can’t even agree on getting rid of ethanol mandates and wind subsidies)
Medicaid, the biggest number in the group. And Obamacare just EXPANDED it dramatically. And added subsidies outside the Medicaid program on top of it.
When the people who received non-means-tested government benefits from programs such as Social Security, Medicare, unemployment and non-means-tested veterans compensation are added to those who received means-tested government programs such as food stamps, Supplemental Security Income and public housing, the total number of people receiving government benefits from one or more programs in the United States in 2011 climbs to 151,014,000
I'm seriously hoping they made a miscalculation here. Because this is dire.
There now officially more people in the wagon than pulling the wagon.
Yep, and the taxes necessary to pay for this would be politically impossible to levy. So the debt keeps piling up with no end in sight. Until a very ugly and inevitable chaotic end to be sure.
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