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Subject You would think USA is a 5 trillion a year welfare state by reading GLP posts.

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Actually total welfare spending in the US is 220 billion a year.  That is less than 3 days of your war! Yet no one talks about the real economic elephant in the room.  Pretty crazy don't you think?
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Get your shit straight.

FACT

62% of the US Federal Budget goes to entitlements (in 2012)

Entitlement spending in 2012 totaled 2.05 TRILLION.

I'm not sure where you got your numbers from but they aren't close to the truth.

Defense spending is 676 BILLION.

Entitlements cost 3X Defense.  I'm not advocating spending nearly that much on Defense.  Just pointing out the real numbers.

READ
http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2012/10/federal-spending-by-the-numbers-2012
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Your wrong, very little of that actually goes to non-working poor.

"Distribution of Tax Expenditure Benefits Differs Greatly, and Is Much Less Favorable to the Middle Class and Low-Incomes Families
The distribution of entitlement benefits stands in sharp contrast to the distribution of benefits for tax expenditures, which former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan has called “tax entitlements.”  The Tax Policy Center finds that under current tax policy:a
The top fifth of the population receives 66 percent of tax-expenditure benefits (compared to 10 percent of entitlement benefits).
The middle 60 percent of the population receives a little over 31 percent of tax-expenditure benefits (compared to 58 percent of entitlement benefits).
The bottom fifth receives just 2.8 percent of tax-expenditure benefits (compared to 32 percent of entitlement benefits).b
The top 1 percent of the population receives 23.9 percent of tax-expenditure benefits — more than eight times as much as the bottom fifth of the population, and nearly as much as the middle 60 percent of the population.
a These TPC figures refer to 2011 tax policy. The figures are for individual tax expenditures and do not include corporate tax expenditures. If corporate tax expenditures were included, the results would be skewed even more heavily to the top of the income spectrum.
b The TPC figures are based on tax filing units, rather than entire households (thus, the “bottom fifth” means the 20 percent of tax units with the lowest incomes). If our analysis had been based on smaller units similar to tax units rather than on households, it would have shown that the bottom fifth of the population received a somewhat smaller share of the entitlement benefits (about 25 percent rather than 32 percent) and the middle slightly more (64 percent rather than 58 percent)."
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Wow are libtards really this dumb or is this just a bot?

You do realize why the bottom 5th don't get a lot of tax breaks and the top 1% do get "more"?

Its because the bottom 5th don't pay any taxes, and the top 1% pay almost all of it.:pick:
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Original Message Actually total welfare spending in the US is 220 billion a year. That is less than 3 days of your war! Yet no one talks about the real economic elephant in the room. Pretty crazy don't you think?

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