(Image H/T: Liberal Logic 101)
A “fundamental transformation”, he said. Determined Weakness, he “policied”. Free rides, he decreed. Now, more people are in the National Cart than there are pulling or pulling:
Census Bureau: Means-Tested Gov’t Benefit Recipients Outnumber Full-Time Year-Round Workers
“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.”
“and government workers” – and those government workers are not creating wealth into the economy, they are paid only if money is taken out of the economy.
How FAIR is it that the many can be supported by the fewer? How is this SUSTAINABLE? As IBD puts it:
Welfare, Not Full-Time Work, Is Now America’s No. 1 Occupation
…This is a real danger for the U.S. — the danger of dependency. Anytime more people are being paid not to work than to work, it imperils our democracy. No one votes to cut his own welfare benefits. So welfare grows.
