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'Welfare Spending Equates to $168 Per Day for Every Household in Poverty'
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| 11:13 AM, Dec 7, 2012 •
| By DANIEL HALPER
Posted on 12/07/2012 11:51:15 AM PST by BenLurkin
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posted on
12/07/2012 11:51:20 AM PST
by
BenLurkin
To: BenLurkin
And welfare benifits are not taxed.
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posted on
12/07/2012 11:57:19 AM PST
by
SkyDancer
(Live your life in such a way that the Westboro church will want to picket your funeral.)
To: BenLurkin
This doesn’t even begin to include all the free stuff that the parasites get from taxpayers. All tax free and politicians promise more and more.
These people live a leisured, hassle free lifestyle and get everything handed to them.
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posted on
12/07/2012 12:11:42 PM PST
by
detective
To: BenLurkin
Welfare pays better than many lower paying jobs, or even many average paying jobs in lower cost of living areas. There’s no hope for balanced budgets until millions can be moved off welfare into jobs. And at present the jobs aren’t there to move very many.
Our government has royally screwed this nation up in numeous ways.
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posted on
12/07/2012 12:13:35 PM PST
by
Will88
To: BenLurkin; SkyDancer
Whatever happened to giving those people Government Cheese?
Living the high life buying Shrimp and Lotto tickets on your neighbors dime. (Ubama is punishing those of us who didn't vote for him)
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posted on
12/07/2012 12:19:28 PM PST
by
KC_Lion
(Build the America you want to live in at your address, and keep looking up.-Sarah Palin)
To: BenLurkin
It pays to be po! That’s about 3.5 times as much as we live on here.
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posted on
12/07/2012 12:22:12 PM PST
by
TigersEye
(Who is John Galt?)
To: BenLurkin
Re-Distribution Communism File.
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posted on
12/07/2012 12:27:12 PM PST
by
Graewoulf
((Traitor John Roberts' Obama"care" violates Sherman Anti-Trust Law, AND the U.S. Constitution.))
To: KC_Lion
Zactly - and the more people who are working see this -
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posted on
12/07/2012 12:30:35 PM PST
by
SkyDancer
(Live your life in such a way that the Westboro church will want to picket your funeral.)
To: BenLurkin
We clearly have a problem.
However, note that this is comparing total welfare spending/household to individual income. It's a misleading comparison.
Welfare recipients don't see this much income. Anyone want to guess how much is skimmed off the top by bureaucrats before it reaches the poor?
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posted on
12/07/2012 12:42:08 PM PST
by
MV=PY
(The Magic Question: Who's paying for it)
To: MV=PY
Reagan pointed this out in “the speech” (actual title “A Time for Choosing).
“But now we’re told that 9.3 million families in this country are poverty-stricken on the basis of earning less than 3,000 dollars a year. Welfare spending [is] 10 times greater than in the dark depths of the Depression. We’re spending 45 billion dollars on welfare. Now do a little arithmetic, and you’ll find that if we divided the 45 billion dollars up equally among those 9 million poor families, we’d be able to give each family 4,600 dollars a year. And this added to their present income should eliminate poverty. Direct aid to the poor, however, is only running only about 600 dollars per family. It would seem that someplace there must be some overhead.” Ronald Reagan
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posted on
12/07/2012 12:45:52 PM PST
by
allmendream
(Tea Party did not send GOP to D.C. to negotiate the terms of our surrender to socialism)
To: detective
They’re completely unable to take care of themselves, as well.
And when those checks stop, or hyperinflation makes them worthless, they’re going to be in real sad shape.
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posted on
12/07/2012 12:48:38 PM PST
by
MrB
(The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
To: SkyDancer
I noticed in your pictures you have what looks like Medical Equipment in your Plane Janey. How does CommunistCare effect you?
Or since you work in Australia it must not.
You are where Ubama can't get you.
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posted on
12/07/2012 12:49:36 PM PST
by
KC_Lion
(Build the America you want to live in at your address, and keep looking up.-Sarah Palin)
To: MV=PY
Thank you for posting this. I know people on welfare, and it is really hard. The real parasites are the bloated bureaucracy who live well off tax money and treat the poor and disabled like crap.
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posted on
12/07/2012 1:01:32 PM PST
by
kabumpo
(Kabumpo)
To: allmendream
Thanks. I ran across some current numbers recently, but can’t remember where - perhaps on FR.
Boy, I sure miss Reagan!
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posted on
12/07/2012 1:02:03 PM PST
by
MV=PY
(The Magic Question: Who's paying for it)
To: KC_Lion
Doesn't affect the instruments at all. Mostly it's stabilize and transport - and monitor. We've tried to see different ways to see if they do. Other than a bout with pneumonia haven't had the need - but then too, we can get lots of stuff OTC you couldn't get in the States.
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posted on
12/07/2012 1:03:51 PM PST
by
SkyDancer
(Live your life in such a way that the Westboro church will want to picket your funeral.)
To: SkyDancer
but then too, we can get lots of stuff OTC you couldn't get in the States.Sounds like Australia is the place too be, since The U.S. is going to hell and Israel is under assault from all sides, I just might join you down there.
Have you picked up the accent yet?
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posted on
12/07/2012 1:12:10 PM PST
by
KC_Lion
(Build the America you want to live in at your address, and keep looking up.-Sarah Palin)
To: KC_Lion
‘Accent Mate? Whut accent - yeah the folks at home give me a hard time about it - LOL
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posted on
12/07/2012 2:16:12 PM PST
by
SkyDancer
(Live your life in such a way that the Westboro church will want to picket your funeral.)
To: BenLurkin
70% of that stays in bureaucracy
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posted on
12/07/2012 2:35:39 PM PST
by
GeronL
(http://asspos.blogspot.com)
To: SkyDancer
Lols! So you have picked up the accent!
How long have you being going to Australia anyway? Must be awhile for you to pick up the outback way of speaking.
You should hear my mother, she has the the Thickest Upper Class English Accent you will ever hear. Its funny when she speaks in German to my Father.
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posted on
12/07/2012 3:24:24 PM PST
by
KC_Lion
(Build the America you want to live in at your address, and keep looking up.-Sarah Palin)
To: KC_Lion
Reckon I be there going on four years - or izzit five mate, dunno ...’tiz a wunda ...
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posted on
12/07/2012 3:31:30 PM PST
by
SkyDancer
(Live your life in such a way that the Westboro church will want to picket your funeral.)
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