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'More Americans than ever before are tapping government benefits. As WSJ reports, nearly half of Americans, 49.5%, lived in a household where at least one person was receiving some type of government benefit.'
Half Of All Americans Live With Someone Dependent On Government Benefits | Zero Hedge
Aging Americans Boost Share of Population Who Receive Government Benefits - Real Time Economics - WSJ
This is what bigger governments and massive government spending brings...huge numbers of people sitting on their ass all day because they can.
There's 2.6 people per household in the US (try and figure out who the .6 is in your household, if you live by yourself, you must be fat), so, if half of all people live in a household with one person drawing a benefit, then 25% of people are on benefits. Right? My maths skills are soggy.
However, receiving benefits doesn't mean people don't work, or haven't worked.
There's 2.6 people per household in the US (try and figure out who the .6 is in your household, if you live by yourself, you must be fat), so, if half of all people live in a household with one person drawing a benefit, then 25% of people are on benefits. Right? My maths skills are soggy.
However, receiving benefits doesn't mean people don't work, or haven't worked.
Nobody in this thread has yet said it did (though I doubt you are so naive to think that there are not millions - tens of millions? - of Americans who work less harder then they could because they get government assistance).
huge numbers of people sitting on their ass all day because they can
But, if people are receiving government benefits, it falls into two categories...those that need it and those that do not.
Those that need it means that whatever they are working at, it is innsufficient to meet what most Americans would call adequate living standards. And considering over 46 million Americans receive food stamps - just that number alone is, IMO, ridiculously high.
The points to a failure in the economy.
And to those that do not need it...then the government is giving out taxpayer dollars in wasteful ways. That points to a failure in how the government is run.
Either way, the government is doing a lousy job at ruining the nation (I include both GW Bush AND Obama administrations).
Well, considering the thread title implies anyone on welfare is "dependent on government", and the closing sentence of the OP read:
So, yeah, it has been said, or at least strongly implied.
That isn't true at all. As an example, those over 66 are entitled to receive Social Security and also work. I have a colleague in this situation who has a six-figure income and receives SSA benefits. Does he need that income? Probably not but he s entitled to it.Nobody in this thread has yet said it did (though I doubt you are so naive to think that there are not millions - tens of millions? - of Americans who work less harder then they could because they get government assistance).
But, if people are receiving government benefits, it falls into two categories...those that need it and those that do not.
Those that need it means that whatever they are working at, it is innsufficient to meet what most Americans would call adequate living standards. And considering over 46 million Americans receive food stamps - just that number alone is, IMO, ridiculously high.
The points to a failure in the economy.
And to those that do not need it...then the government is giving out taxpayer dollars in wasteful ways. That points to a failure in how the government is run.
Either way, the government is doing a lousy job at running the nation (I include both GW Bush AND Obama administrations).
'More Americans than ever before are tapping government benefits. As WSJ reports, nearly half of Americans, 49.5%, lived in a household where at least one person was receiving some type of government benefit.'
Half Of All Americans Live With Someone Dependent On Government Benefits | Zero Hedge
Aging Americans Boost Share of Population Who Receive Government Benefits - Real Time Economics - WSJ
This is what bigger governments and massive government spending brings...huge numbers of people sitting on their ass all day because they can.
'More Americans than ever before are tapping government benefits. As WSJ reports, nearly half of Americans, 49.5%, lived in a household where at least one person was receiving some type of government benefit.'
Half Of All Americans Live With Someone Dependent On Government Benefits | Zero Hedge
Aging Americans Boost Share of Population Who Receive Government Benefits - Real Time Economics - WSJ
This is what bigger governments and massive government spending brings...huge numbers of people sitting on their ass all day because they can.
I hope you are not including Social Security benefits in this category. Because those are benefits that have been EARNED.
'More Americans than ever before are tapping government benefits. As WSJ reports, nearly half of Americans, 49.5%, lived in a household where at least one person was receiving some type of government benefit.'
Half Of All Americans Live With Someone Dependent On Government Benefits | Zero Hedge
Aging Americans Boost Share of Population Who Receive Government Benefits - Real Time Economics - WSJ
This is what bigger governments and massive government spending brings...huge numbers of people sitting on their ass all day because they can.
The types of benefits run the gamut, from Social Security to unemployment compensation to food stamps.
I hope you are not including Social Security benefits in this category. Because those are benefits that have been EARNED.
Pretty much all benefits are earned. Everyone pays some taxes in this country, and most people who collect benefits from the safety net only do so for a short time. Before and after, and often during that time, they work, contribute to the economy, and pay income tax. There is no lazy underclass in this country, yet people throw that idea out there as if it were gospel. It's not, and the numbers debunk this nonsense time and time again. The only people who obtain benefits without contributing are children, and how insane would we have to be to begrudge them that?
But ".4% of Americans are leeches" doesn't make as good a headline in right-wing blogs as "half of Americans are leeches."
Baloney. Welfare isnt earned. Neither is unemployment benefits from the governemnt. Also SS benefits are unearned once the benefits go above the person's contributions. Thats pretty much parasitism.Pretty much all benefits are earned.
I don't disagree, the welfare system is inefficient and doesn't encourage people to seek work. It needs a massive overhaul.
Really?
"...The Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 (PRWORA) is a United States federal law considered to be a fundamental shift in both the method and goal of federal cash assistance to the poor. The bill added a workforce development component to welfare legislation, encouraging employment among the poor. The bill was a cornerstone of the Republican Contract with America and was introduced by Rep. E. Clay Shaw, Jr. (R-FL-22). Bill Clinton signed PRWORA into law on August 22, 1996, fulfilling his 1992 campaign promise to "end welfare as we have come to know it".[1]
Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Baloney. Welfare isnt earned. Neither is unemployment benefits from the governemnt. Also SS benefits are unearned once the benefits go above the person's contributions. Thats pretty much parasitism.
And the results of that?
According to this (I'm not sure if the link works), it had no visible effect on the trend.
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