Data Points – Welfare spending

by Skip

From National Review Online:

  • The District of Columbia was one of the few jurisdictions that chose to extend welfare benefits far beyond the Federal time limit of 5 years.
  • DC residents on welfare > 5 years: 40%
  • DC residents on welfare > 8 years : nearly 33%
  • DC’s poorest ward family makeup: 66% are unmarried women with children.
  • Money spent since the start of LBJ’s "Great Society"’s war on poverty: more than $13 trillion
  • Additional welfare spending by local governments: another couple of trillion.
  • Federal welfare spending this year: exceed $600 billion,
  • Anti-poverty programs: 122
  • Bush: hiked welfare spending by $80 Billion.
  • Obama: pushed that up, in two years, by another $120 Billion.

So, has all this spending actually worked to lift the poor out of poverty? No.  Even with having spent over $16 trillion dollars, the poverty rate has simply wavered between 13 – 16% of the population. This is "smart government?"

Bonus – go see who actually denounced welfare, based that it has put into place "a cycle of generational poverty, governmental dependency, and economic disparity"?  Eye Opener.

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  • Skip

    Co-founder of GraniteGrok, my concern is around Individual Liberty and Freedom and how the Government is taking that away. As an evangelical Christian and Conservative with small "L" libertarian leanings, my fight is with Progressives forcing a collectivized, secular humanistic future upon us. As a TEA Party activist, citizen journalist, and pundit!, my goal is to use the New Media to advance the radical notions of America's Founders back into our culture.

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