Welfare Spending Shattering All-Time Highs
19th October 2012
Roughly 100 million people—one-third of the U.S. population—receive aid from at least one means-tested welfare program each month. Average benefits come to around $9,000 per recipient. If converted to cash, means-tested welfare spending is more than five times the amount needed to eliminate all poverty in the United States.
Which just goes to show that eliminating poverty — or even seriously reducing it — is not the actual goal of government welfare spending, popular mythology to the contrary notwithstanding. The obvious goal of government welfare spending is to hire and pay government workers, and to reduce enough Americans to abject dependence on government welfare spending to ensure that government workers will continue to be hired and paid.
October 19th, 2012 at 11:45
So which of the articles you post are we expected to believe? The ‘April 15th payday’ one which says that only 3.8% of Federal income taxes go back to the ‘freeloaders’, or this one that says that welfare costs are ‘exploding’?
You can’t have it both ways unless you’re Romney.
October 19th, 2012 at 14:26
You can believe what you want. It’s not as if anyone cares.
October 19th, 2012 at 16:00
Oh, but I always believe what you post. It’s just confusing when you post contradictory things. You could at least try to be consistent.
October 19th, 2012 at 17:59
Why bother? You never do.
October 19th, 2012 at 22:23
Brilliant! A tu quoque argument. Thought those were extinct.
October 20th, 2012 at 05:47
Not as long as you are alive.