does that include Social Security retirement and medicare???
does that include Social Security retirement and medicare???
1 in 3 on medicaid, foodstamps or some other government means (what ever that is)
if you include medicare, social security and unemployment it is about 1/2 of the population
these numbers are from 2010
“NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — More than one in three Americans lived in households that received Medicaid, food stamps or other means-based government assistance in mid-2010, according to a new report.
And when Social Security, Medicare and unemployment benefits are included, nearly half of the nation lived in a household that received a government check, according to the analysis of third-quarter 2010 Census data done by the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, a libertarian-leaning think tank. That’s more than 148 million Americans.
http://money.cnn.com/2012/02/07/news/economy";
I just posted this because things keep stacking up against getting obama out of the whitehouse
romney’s weakness sure doesn’t help
The question assumes that people on government assistance want government assistance. Most folks on unemployment compensation would rather have jobs. Ditto for many people on welfare. Folks on Social Security are likely to be old enough to remember the way the country used to be and want their grandchildren to have a chance to grow up in America-as-America, rather than America-as-Peronist-Argentina, and are not, for the most part, of the entitlement mind-set, but rather expect the government to keep faith with them after taxing them all their working lives purportedly to provide them with a minimal pension.
This is why this nation is over. sad bt true.
you see it even on this site.
Some on aid which is “supposed” to be temporary, e.g. foodstamps, might be looking back fondly at more prosperous times and want them back again.
In times like these, why would we attack our own industries?
In times like these, why would we attack our own industries?
If we can somehow get Obama out and win the Senate, we must, MUST, M*U*S*T starting cutting back on government benefits. If we don’t, the takers will vote to take out money and give it to them.
If we can somehow get Obama out and win the Senate, we must, MUST, M*U*S*T starting cutting back on government benefits. If we don’t, the takers will vote to take our money and give it to them.
Not government assistance.
Their neighbors' assistance (at gunpoint, by the way). And whoever else is paying taxes.
“How can Romney beat Obama when almost half of the country is on government assistance?”
They are entitled to Obama without voting for him aren’t they? They shouldn’t have to vote for him to get him right?
That’s how Obama gets beat...
Not every person on government assistance is a dumbed-down committed obamabot.
Lumping folks together into one single category tends to ignore the fact that tvery group of people is comprised of individuals who have their own thoughts and ideas that be in conflict with yours.
-- James Madison, the Father of the U.S. Constitution
I agree with a lot of this premise.
In a perverse way the Baraqqi Depression has actually improved his chances of re-election, because of all the dependency that has been created.
Not the “normal” political result of a bad economy.
And most of the “dependents” don’t understand that the FedGov is just like that family in 2007 riding a wave of false prosperity based on credit cards and helocs with two leased luxury cars and a McMansion with negative equity.
They wouldn’t be on assistance, and the government wouldn’t have any to give them, if we the productive people stopped paying taxes.
If you’re serious about saving America, quit enabling its killer leeches.
Actions, not words.
Social Security is NOT “government assistance,” it’s a mandatory Ponzi scheme screwing old people out of their life savings. It’s “government assistance” only in the sense that the government has been assisted by ripping off our hard-earned $$$ and giving back a portion while pocketing the rest.
It’s the citizens assisting the government, not the other way around.
Can anyone put real numbers and sourced data to this claim?
Thanks for this thread.
Any one of us that has the Proud Welfare Eagle fly over our mail box knows that we are on the Federal Entitlement Tax Slavery Plantation.
THE MAN lives in THE BIG HOUSE at 1600 Plantation Avenue, District of Corruption.
As Federal Entitlement Tax Slaves we can vote in anything that we want to - - - , we ARE the 50 % !