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The 35.4 Percent: 109,631,000 on Welfare
CNS ^ | August 20, 2014 | Terence P. Jeffrey

Posted on 08/20/2014 7:09:30 AM PDT by xzins

109,631,000 Americans lived in households that received benefits from one or more federally funded "means-tested programs" — also known as welfare — as of the fourth quarter of 2012, according to data released Tuesday by the Census Bureau.

The Census Bureau has not yet reported how many were on welfare in 2013 or the first two quarters of 2014.

But the 109,631,000 living in households taking federal welfare benefits as of the end of 2012, according to the Census Bureau, equaled 35.4 percent of all 309,467,000 people living in the United States at that time.

When those receiving benefits from non-means-tested federal programs — such as Social Security, Medicare, unemployment and veterans benefits — were added to those taking welfare benefits, it turned out that 153,323,000 people were getting federal benefits of some type at the end of 2012.

Subtract the 3,297,000 who were receiving veterans' benefits from the total, and that leaves 150,026,000 people receiving non-veterans' benefits.

The 153,323,000 total benefit-takers at the end of 2012, said the Census Bureau, equaled 49.5 percent of the population. The 150,026,000 taking benefits other than veterans' benefits equaled about 48.5 percent of the population.

When America re-elected President Barack Obama in 2012, we had not quite reached the point where more than half the country was taking benefits from the federal government.

It is a reasonable bet, however, that with the implementation of Obamacare — with its provisions expanding Medicaid and providing health-insurance subsidies to people earning up to 400 percent of poverty — that if we have not already surpassed that point (not counting those getting veterans benefits) we soon will.

What did taxpayers give to the 109,631,000 — the 35.4 percent of the nation — getting welfare benefits at the end of 2012?

82,679,000 of the welfare-takers lived in households where people were on Medicaid, said the Census Bureau. 51,471,000 were in households on food stamps. 22,526,000 were in the Women, Infants and Children program. 20,355,000 were in household on Supplemental Security Income. 13,267,000 lived in public housing or got housing subsidies. 5,442,000 got Temporary Assistance to Needy Families. 4,517,000 received other forms of federal cash assistance.

How do you put in perspective the 109,631,000 people taking welfare, or the 150,026,000 getting some type of federal benefit other than veterans' benefits?

Well, the CIA World Factbook says there are 142,470,272 people in Russia. So, the 150,026,000 people getting non-veterans federal benefits in the United States at the end of 2012 outnumbered all the people in Russia.

63,742,977 people live in the United Kingdom and 44,291,413 live in the Ukraine, says the CIA. So, the combined 108,034,390 people in these two nations was about 1,596,610 less than 109,631,000 collecting welfare in the United States.

It may be more telling, however, to compare the 109,631,000 Americans taking federal welfare benefits at the end of 2012 to Americans categorized by other characteristics.

In 2012, according to the Census Bureau, there were 103,087,000 full-time year-round workers in the United States (including 16,606,000 full-time year-round government workers). Thus, the welfare-takers outnumbered full-time year-round workers by 6,544,000.

California, the nation's most-populated state, contained an estimated 38,332,521 people in 2013, says the Census Bureau. Texas had 26,448,193 people, New York had 19,651,127, and Florida had 19,552,860. But the combined 103,984,701 people in these four massive states still fell about 5,646,299 short of the 109,631,000 people on welfare.

In the fourth quarter of 2008, when President Obama was elected, there were 96,197,000 people living in households taking benefits from one or more federal welfare programs. After four years, by the fourth quarter of 2012, that had grown by 13,434,000.

Those 13,434,000 additional people on welfare outnumbered the 12,882,135 people the Census Bureau estimated lived in Obama's home state of Illinois in 2013.


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KEYWORDS: budget; economy; poverty; unemployment; welfare
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To: manc

Welfare isn’t about sustaining the sub-humans; it is about redistributing money to businesses where said sub-humans are housed. How many millionaires got rich by saving their public assistance cash benefits?

The sacrifice of their children to violent crime is the price of their laziness.


23 posted on 08/20/2014 7:28:08 AM PDT by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: xzins

Thanks for the population data on the occupants of OBAMANATION, fully funded by Speaker “Blank Check” Boehner, of course.


24 posted on 08/20/2014 7:29:01 AM PDT by Graewoulf (Democrats' Obamacare Socialist Health Insur. Tax violates U.S. Constitution AND Anti-Trust Law.)
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To: Opinionated Blowhard
We are in a Welfare State death spiral where people don’t have the maturity or emotional toughness to cut back on transfer payments.

After watching Paul Ryan on Morning Joe today, I'm convinced our legislators don't have the maturity or emotional toughness to slow down this runaway train.

25 posted on 08/20/2014 7:30:01 AM PDT by Night Hides Not (Remember the Alamo! Remember Goliad! Remember Mississippi!)
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To: F15Eagle

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- In my locale illegal aliens have multiple ID’s and aliases and drive leased new triple black Caddy’s & Lincoln’s as they pull up to one of the many check cashing/wiring funds businesses


26 posted on 08/20/2014 7:30:02 AM PDT by devolve (- next : a very special guest appearance by Ms. Baracka Husseina Obamamama -)
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To: Farmer Dean

Tipping point.
Dead man walking.

No way 150 million will ever vote to terminate
their own benefits.


27 posted on 08/20/2014 7:31:36 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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28 posted on 08/20/2014 7:31:38 AM PDT by DJ MacWoW (The Fed Gov is not one ring to rule them all)
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To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin; xzins

The “Gibsmedat Army” vastly outnumbers the Tea Party. We’re screwed.


29 posted on 08/20/2014 7:31:47 AM PDT by Night Hides Not (Remember the Alamo! Remember Goliad! Remember Mississippi!)
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To: Farmer Dean

We are living in a house of cards. The soaring national debt will eventually crush the economy and bring it all down. You’re right, just a matter of time now.


30 posted on 08/20/2014 7:34:56 AM PDT by Starboard
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To: Kozak

Russia and China are working to demolish that structure. They have already established new mechanisms to circumvent the dollar.


31 posted on 08/20/2014 7:37:02 AM PDT by Starboard
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To: F15Eagle
LEGAL IMMIGRANTS ARE THE REAL PROBLEM. We bring in 1.1 million legal immigrants a year and have been doing so since 1990. They use welfare benefits to a greater extent than the native born. We are importing poverty.

As the Census Bureau does in many of its publications, we report welfare use based on whether the household head is an immigrant or native. With regard to immigrant households, this means we are mainly reporting welfare use for immigrants and their U.S.-born children who live with them and comparing them to natives and their children. Table 12 shows the percentage of immigrant‑ and native‑headed households in which at least one member of the household uses one or more major welfare programs. The definition of programs is as follows: cash assistance: Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF), state administered general assistance, and Supplemental Security Income (SSI), which is for low-income elderly and disabled persons; food assistance: Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), informally known as food stamps, free and subsidized school lunch, and the Women, Infants, and Children nutrition program (WIC); housing assistance: subsidized and government-owned housing. The table also shows figures for Medicaid, the health insurance program for those with low incomes.


32 posted on 08/20/2014 7:42:05 AM PDT by kabar
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To: xzins

Obama/Democrats only mention the “middle class” during election season, but nobody mentions the now 35% according to this. I guess everybody knows this 35% does not vote.

The funny thing is that these 35% or so actually think Democrats are with them, in the same way majority of blacks feel the Dems are with them.

What`s my point? I have no point, just saying.


33 posted on 08/20/2014 7:48:46 AM PDT by Friendofgeorge (Sarah Palin 2016 OR BUST)
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To: F15Eagle

I have no problem with people struggling, I will give my time and money to them , but driving a nice vehicle, a new one, and getting manicures, facials , top hairdressing while on welfare and being obese where they obviously are not going short on food pisses me off to no end and not one person with a public voice can state this , because of fear.

Wife does her own nails, she is actually good, she gets cheap haircuts at the same place where my barber is. She goes to good will for a lot of her clothes. We have not had a vacation in years and yesterday we had our 19th anniversary and never been on a honey moon.

We pay our way, we don’t take welfare, we make our kids their own lunches etc, We drive just normal cars which the newest is 7 years old.
We live in a small house but it is ours and we pay for it.

I;m sick of seeing people abuse the system and play the race card , or whites having white guilt and making excuses for others, black or white.


34 posted on 08/20/2014 7:53:53 AM PDT by manc (Marriage =1 man + 1 woman,when they say marriage equality then they should support polygamy)
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To: xzins

Yeah this country is finished-society and govn policy has pushed past the point of no return. The liberals have destroyed the country. The dark days, collapse of all infrastructure, and die off are coming. When? Months? Years? Probably not a decade. It’s been a good ride cowboy.


35 posted on 08/20/2014 7:57:07 AM PDT by TnTnTn
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To: the anti-mahdi
People will die. It will not end well for any but the elite. They will have food, water, shelter and medical care while the world burns around them. Well, I just depressed myself. However, I am open to anyone that has a brighter future scenario to share.

Yes.

At least we will have dogs.


36 posted on 08/20/2014 7:57:32 AM PDT by Lazamataz (First we beat the Soviet Union. Then we became them.)
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To: TnTnTn
Yeah this country is finished-society and govn policy has pushed past the point of no return. The liberals have destroyed the country. The dark days, collapse of all infrastructure, and die off are coming. When? Months? Years? Probably not a decade. It’s been a good ride cowboy


37 posted on 08/20/2014 7:59:35 AM PDT by Lazamataz (First we beat the Soviet Union. Then we became them.)
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To: xzins
When America re-elected President Barack Obama in 2012, we had not quite reached the point where more than half the country was taking benefits from the federal government.

Incorrect. "The federal government" has no money. This money is coming from the few people that still have jobs.

38 posted on 08/20/2014 7:59:52 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: xzins
Our 1% ers (ruling elites living in gated communities) might want to read up on the French Revolution.


39 posted on 08/20/2014 8:00:24 AM PDT by jpsb (Believe nothing until it has been officially denied)
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To: the anti-mahdi

Sept 13, 2015.


40 posted on 08/20/2014 8:01:29 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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