Posted on 04/16/2014 2:45:58 AM PDT by markomalley
And that should give you an idea of why they’re so interested in disarming us. The government doesn’t want their rape victims being able to resist.
“Workers” and “benefit takers” aren’t necessarily mutually exclusive categories.
“...16,606,000 worked for the government...”
Need to add them back to the total. They are in the wagon being pulled by the private sector too.
Also, we’re now calling everyone on SS a ‘taker’, despite what they’ve put into the system?
Tons of people on SS disability abusing the sysetem, as well as people collecting who never contributed a dime. So yes, you’ve contributed, but many have not.
I”m not talking about—or defending—myself. And SS disability is already accounted for differently.
(And I’m not on any sort of guv program.) I just question the math used here. Also, there’s no elimination of overlap between the SS/Medicare and the traditional means-tested programs.
I don’t agree with the fundamental diagnosis of the system, just the tally of the actual stats presented.
Thank you for pointing that out. At 68 years old, I'm in both catergories - S.S. & Medicare but I still pay a butt load of federal income tax every year, including fed taxes on my S.S., plus in the 3.5 years I've had medicare, I've yet to reach my deductible, having thus paid approximately $3500 and receiving zero benefit from Medicare. Don't get me wrong, I'm not complianing, just agreeing with your point.
“Need to add them back to the total. They are in the wagon being pulled by the private sector too.”
Absolutely, and they cost a hell of a lot more than the welfare gibsmedats. Government workers have bankrupted NJ.
It’s essential for the dictatorship to make classes of citizens angry at one another - accurately or not - in order to distract them from the people who are really responsible.
Well the title sure is scary, but after reading that out of that number of people getting benefits, they consider WIC at 23 million a horrible thing. Quite frankly since the basically give WIC to anyone who has a child, I am not as concerned as the numbers say. Had they not included the numbers from WIC, it would have been horrible for the country.
ack! It gets worse. The include people getting Social Security and then they include Veterans getting pensions and GI Bill. What a crock of an article. It is a “BS” scary story that is definitely sensationalism crap that we would explode had the liberals been so dishonest.
Tons of people on SS disability abusing the sysetem, as well as people collecting who never contributed a dime. So yes, you’ve contributed, but many have not.
Then only include those getting SSI in the numbers. The numbers are so bull crap that I thought this horrid story was from the liberal website (take your pick). I would pull this thread as it is basically bunk.
“Also, we’re now calling everyone on SS a ‘taker’, despite what they’ve put into the system?”
There lies the brainwashing: “Pay into it, collect back, you’ve ‘earned’ it.”
The fact is, you will always take more than you put in.
This will end in blood and fire ...
Actually, the average is to take out more than put in—but lots of people croak before coming even.
Medicare is something else, however, with the vast majority taking out way more than they put in.
A significant fraction are employed to hand out money to the gibsmedats. Get rid of the gibsmedat programs, and you produce a twofold benefit.
I don’t even need to call the actuary in the family to know THAT is not sustainable.
Calling them an epitat may reasonably be taken exception to, and one can argue that they have justification for their place, but at this moment, they are part of that category of taking which must be supported by a worker/producer. As the ratios continue to shift, it becomes more and more unsustainable.
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