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Good post.

Though I think the real welfare bill is higher than $500 billion.

Was the share of interest on the debt counted, for example?

Then there are the economic costs associated with that money not being put to more productive use - jobs, economic growth foregone.

Freepers need to see more of this. 99.999999999999% of the public have no idea what the Federal budget is like. Most think foreign aid and defense are the biggest expenditures.

It's not. It's welfare.

Actually, I don't care for his article too much. His inclusion of public education as a welfare benefit for the parents is not convincing, even if technically accurate.

The investigation I'd like to see would answer the question "How many welfare recipients are involved in the underground economy?"

Welfare motivates people to move into the underground economy.

Drugs will also never be legalized because it would destroy a primary income source for the underclass which would cause a huge backlash against the Democrats and Republicans alike. It would precipitate social upheaval.

I think tobacco will also eventually be made illegal because there is a huge underground economy which would benefit from illegal tobacco smuggling and sales.

Leftists have never, ever cared about the health of the people. They only ever care about the acquisition of power.

The underground economy is what turned the USSR upside down. Reagan encouraged it. Similarly Leftists in the US are using the same technique to destabilize the US (economically and therefore politically)and shred the rule of law.

Great post. Sad to say my mother in law is on the government dole. She has been receiving some sort of government assistance half of her adult life. She is fully capable of working but at the age of 50 she stated that she is tired of working and wants the government to take care of her. The government provides her funds to live 3 miles from the beach in so cal in a single family home. She knows full well how to bilk the system. Her unemployed live in boyfriend even gets paid over $400/mo.. to look after her. This women drives all over so cal, takes 3 vacations a year, physical therapy ( which she doesn't need)three times a week including a massage, etc... I've added up her costing the taxpayers approximately $100,000 a year.

I doubt there are very many Americans serfish enough to try to take away public education.

Afterall most who would are retired. Unfornately they are not likely to see the bennifit of educating those who will never help meet their needs. Fornatelly the truly selfish number of Senior Citizens is decreassing as the baby boom generation ages and replaces those who had to live through the depression.