Under Obama, Welfare Spending Shoots Through Stratosphere
The steep decline in America’s standard of living under Obama is hardly surprising, considering that we are compelled by our government to spend 32% more paying people not to work than we did four years ago:
Welfare spending has grown substantially over the past four years, reaching $746 billion in 2011 — or more than Social Security, basic defense spending or any other single chunk of the federal government — according to a new memo by the Congressional Research Service.
The steady rise in welfare spending, which covers more than 80 programs primarily designed to help low-income Americans, got a big boost from the 2009 stimulus and has grown, albeit somewhat more slowly, in 2010 and 2011. One reason is that more people are qualifying in the weak economy, but the federal government also has broadened eligibility so that more people qualify for programs.
Sen. Jeff Sessions, the ranking Republican on the Senate Budget Committee, who requested the Congressional Research Service report, said it underscores a fundamental shift in welfare, moving away from a Band-Aid and toward a more permanent [i.e., intergenerational] crutch.
Thanks to LBJ’s absurd War on Poverty, anyone with an IQ above plant life now understands that you don’t reduce poverty by subsidizing it, any more than you create more wealth by punishing those who are economically productive. The point of welfare is not to help the poor, but to make them more numerous and to unite them as a political block. This is why Obama has (illegally) removed the work requirements that made the welfare reform of the 1990s so effective.
Continuing on this course, we will soon cross a tipping point, beyond which democracy will no longer be able to function. Those who work for a living will do so as slaves of a majority who vote for a living. No system so profoundly immoral can be sustained without massive force.
Mr. Sessions’ staff on the Budget Committee calculated that states contributed another $283 billion to low-income assistance — chiefly through Medicaid. Combined, that means the federal and state governments spent $1.03 trillion on welfare programs.
That kind of spending can’t be sustained even with massive force. If the media manages to get Obama reelected, things are going to get ugly.
On tips from Shawn R and Artfldgr.
BREAKING NEWS!
Even Bill Clinton agrees with Mitt Romney and the rest of America that the economy is in the tank and The President was wrong during the debates. Liberals are seen wondering what is going on and why even democrats are now turning on their dear comrade leader Obama. Bill to Obama: “You throw Hillary under the bus because of your failure at Benghazi and I will now hammer you on your next biggest failure”!
http://weaselzippers.us/2012/10/18/bill-clinton-romneys-argument-is-true-obama-hasnt-fixed-the-economy/
Well bitch, enjoy your phone while you can.
Latest Gallup poll (an organization intimidated into good numbers for Obama by the administration) has Romney up by SEVEN POINTS (from a sample of 2700 voters, weighted about +9 for Dems, with a margin of error + – 2%).
Now, after we humiliate the Kenyan Punk, let’s not forget all the fingers poked in our eyes, all the names we’ve been called, all the hate, anger, violence and bile that’s been spewed our way, all the money we’ve been bilked out of…and take appropriate steps to correct those problems.
November, baby. Be VERY afraid.
Oh, you’re just MEAN! You think that it’s YOUR money just because you signed an agreement with your EEEVIL CAPITALIST boss to be compensated for the work you do for him/her!
Well you know what? That’s how I feel too!
There’s all those tweets about rioting if/when! Romney gets elected, but I think there will be a lot more anger with an obozo reelection. He gonna turnoff the tap. He gonna have to.
Dial 911 cuz some tax payer is getting f*cked.
Who the hell had the idiotic idea that we’re supposed to “help the poor”?
That either had to be a 3rd grade girl or a liberal.
Its supposed to suck to be poor.
.
That’s the only way to get these spirochette-brained morons to pull up their pants, take the beer bottle out of their marijuana-holes, learn some two-syllable words and get a job shoveling nuclear waste.
Sorry KHarn…I forgot that I don’t live in America anymore. My bad.
As for all the threats of “WE GET WHAT WE WANT OR VIOLENCE”, I’ll say it again: bring it on. Conservatives will avail themselves of their 2nd amendment rights, as well as their God given rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
So let ‘em whine and kvetch and threaten. It’s all they’ve got left. They think they can go on poking their fingers in our eyes.
They
are
wrong.
“Anon-Y-Mouse says:October 18, 2012 at 5:13 pm”
When that time comes and I can’t stand beside you with my rifle, I’ll be amoung those bringing beans and bullets to the barracade.
The White House’s fiscal year 2013 budget includes $831 million for Department of Justice
Re-Entry Programs as Budget Priority–for Black Families Only
“An Economy Built to Last and Security for African American Families.”
http://cnsnews.com/news/article/wh-lists-prisoner-re-entry-programs-budget-priority-black-families-only
Labor Force.
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