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Study: Government Dependence Shoots Up 23% Under President Obama
Investor's Business Daily ^
| 2/8/2012
| John Merline
Posted on 02/08/2012 5:31:42 AM PST by IBD editorial writer
The American public's dependence on the federal government shot up 23% in just two years under President Obama, with 67 million now relying on some federal program, according to a newly released study by the Heritage Foundation.
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: dependence; government; obama; welfare
To: IBD editorial writer
I wonder if this includes government ("public sector") jobs as well, or just the handouts the rest of us pay for?
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posted on
02/08/2012 5:37:07 AM PST
by
grobdriver
(Proud Member, Party Of No! No Socialism - No Fascism - Nobama - No Way!)
To: grobdriver
never mind...
The conservative think tank's annual Index of Dependence on Government tracks money spent on housing, health, welfare, education subsidies and other federal programs that were "traditionally provided to needy people by local organizations and families."
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posted on
02/08/2012 5:39:41 AM PST
by
grobdriver
(Proud Member, Party Of No! No Socialism - No Fascism - Nobama - No Way!)
To: IBD editorial writer
I think the plan is 100% dependence. Pray for our country...
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posted on
02/08/2012 5:40:56 AM PST
by
NCjim
(Do not argue with an idiot. He will drag you down to his level and beat you with experience.)
To: IBD editorial writer
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posted on
02/08/2012 5:41:14 AM PST
by
maggief
To: IBD editorial writer
Obammie the Commie...The “Foodstamp President”
All by design, folks.
All by design.
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posted on
02/08/2012 6:02:12 AM PST
by
Ghost of Philip Marlowe
(Prepare for survival. (Ron Paul is the Lyndon Larouche of the 21st century.))
To: NCjim
I think the plan is 100% dependence <<
Yup!........That's what Communism is based on
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posted on
02/08/2012 6:03:53 AM PST
by
M-cubed
To: IBD editorial writer
My lib co-worker thinks that we are a better country the more people are dependent on the government. I asked it he wants his kids to get an education and get a career or just go on the dole. Blank stare.
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posted on
02/08/2012 6:08:31 AM PST
by
PogySailor
(Obama is a SCOAMF)
To: grobdriver
I wonder if this includes government ("public sector") jobs as well, or just the handouts the rest of us pay for? No, it does not.
Add to that:
Federal Gov't:
2 million Federal Gov't CIVILIAN employees (excluding Postal Service - obsolete and overpaid waste)SOURCE
570,000 Postal workers
Total: 2,570,000 Federal Gov't parasites
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State and Local Government (Excluding education and hospitals)
8,274,600
Add in education and hospitals and you get almost 30 million people getting wages from the government.
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posted on
02/08/2012 6:20:11 AM PST
by
Bon mots
("When seconds count, the police are just minutes away...")
To: IBD editorial writer
Heh, heh.I love it
when a plan
comes together!
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posted on
02/08/2012 6:57:30 AM PST
by
upchuck
(Let's have the Revolution NOW before we get dumbed down to the point that we can't.)
To: IBD editorial writer
The Foodstamp President.
And yet he thinks he deserves a 2nd term? Epic Fail.
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