Posted on 10/25/2011 5:04:53 PM PDT by Kaslin
Most Americans are unaware that about $700 billion a year of federal taxpayers' money is handed out to nontaxpayers who are allegedly below the poverty line (in addition to $250 billion a year given out by the states). After Barack Obama became president, he increased federal welfare spending by a third because, as he promised during his campaign, he wants to "spread the wealth," knowing that increasing welfare spending promotes dependence on government and votes for the Democrats.
This federal welfare apparatus consists of 69 means-tested programs: 12 programs providing food, 10 for housing assistance, 10 for social services, nine for educational assistance, eight programs giving cash, eight for vocational training, seven for medical assistance, three for energy and utility assistance and two for child care and child development.
What is now called the hidden welfare state (because so few Americans know about its enormity) is the fastest-growing component of government spending, and this does not include Social Security or Medicare payments. The total of these means-tested handouts is greater than what we are paying for our entire public school system and greater than what we spend on national defense.
We have just learned, for example, that 2.3 million illegal aliens who worked U.S. jobs in 2010 paid no federal income taxes but collected $4 billion from the U.S. Treasury in tax-credit money.
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Thank you for posting this tread. Phyliss Schlafly has been one of my favoites for many years.
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