Census Bureau: Means-Tested Gov't Benefit Recipients Outnumber Full-Time Year-Round Workers

CNS News ^ | 10-24-2013 | Terence P. Jeffrey

[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..

[Red Badger]

Yes........

[Sergio]

bkmk

[Regulator]

So, uh...if those of us in the production side just throw in the towel...when do the food riots start?

[Iron Munro]

What a surprise.

[bkopto]

there were 101,716,000 people who worked full-time year round in 2011. That included both private-sector and government workers.

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?

[Mike Darancette]

It’s official: More people vote for a living than work for a living.

[TurboZamboni]

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)

[JediJones]

Among the 108,592,000 people who fit the Census Bureau’s description of a means-tested benefit recipient in the fourth quarter of 2011 were 82,457,000 people in households receiving Medicaid

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.

[GeronL]

There now officially more people in the wagon than pulling the wagon.

[JediJones]

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.