“The Congressional Research Service identified 83 overlapping federal welfare programs that together represented the single largest budget item in 2011—more than the nation spends on Social Security, Medicare, or national defense.”
This is really an odd subject, even here on Ree Republic. I have published this same fact on many threads, and usually got a ho-hum response. YET THIS IS THE CANCER THAT WILL EAT THE COUNTRY ALIVE.
I find people, even here, completely passionate about health care costs, illegal immigrants, cost of overseas wars, green jobs, etc. etc, yet NONE of them represents the threat that welfare does.
Back in the 90’s, the master snake clintoon, and his minions convinced most of the sheeple that welfare had been “ended.” What they actually did was scatter it throughout the Federal Budget, call it different things, and make it nearly impossible to account for.
This group, http://www.heritage.org/ are the only people I have found that have tried to find all the various places that welfare has been hidden, and accumulate the total costs. And I suspect they have missed billions.
Yet the country, even conservatives, will continue to obsess about illegals and health care costs, while we are slowly boiled alive.
They exclude entitlement programs to which people contribute (e.g., Social Security and Medicare).” These too are welfare programs, funded by Income Tax II and Income Tax III, with money taken from current producers. Pay as you go transfer payments, wealth redistribution, socialism, nanny-statism, writ large.
Conservatives used to understand this. They once opposed the New Deal and the Great Society. Now they embrace them, support a presidential candidate who fiercely defends them.
How the mighty have fallen.
How far we have moved from the principles and purposes of the founders of this free republic.
How far we have moved from the original constitutional framework that once guarded our liberty.
"I cannot undertake to lay my finger on that article of the Constitution which granted a right to Congress of expending, on objects of benevolence, the money of their constituents." -- James Madison, the father of the U.S. Constitution
