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.
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.