Enough Spent on Welfare in 2011 to Give Every Poor Household Nearly $60,000 | |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 26832391 United States 11/02/2012 03:20 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I don't know about that stuff whining about "welfare" but I can tell you this: the CRS report was WITHDRAWN at the insistence of congressional republicons. Why? Because the report found no evidence that tax cuts for high income earners lead to economic growth. In other words, it found that supply-side trickle-down economics is A BULLSHIT SCAM. [link to tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com] |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 26232902 United States 11/02/2012 04:50 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Miss Skinny Puppy chick, Thanks for the news. We all know the currency is worthless. The goal of the elites is to pacify us and dumb us down with bullshit. It's working. I refuse to be a slave. I hope the same for you. Get right with your spirit. Your god or goddesss self whatever you may be. Good luck. |
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Too Dark Park (OP) User ID: 21886424 United States 11/02/2012 05:07 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Miss Skinny Puppy chick, Quoting: black calx Thanks for the news. We all know the currency is worthless. The goal of the elites is to pacify us and dumb us down with bullshit. It's working. I refuse to be a slave. I hope the same for you. Get right with your spirit. Your god or goddesss self whatever you may be. Good luck. |
LunaType User ID: 19262577 United States 11/02/2012 05:08 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | The beaurocrats handling the money got most of it as salaries, probably. More money would reach the welfare folks if they just sent it to them. But then, the beaurocrats would be out of a job. Quoting: NightWisp Sadly, great majority of the adults in those families, would probably take the cash, and overdose on drugs or be involved in alcohol related crimes/accidents with in the week. Could you imagine not ever seeing more then a few hundred dollars in one place at one time, and then suddenly having 10's of thousands? It would be chaos, and then the money would be gone, and of course more would be needed again. |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 26839168 United Kingdom 11/02/2012 06:29 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | The beaurocrats handling the money got most of it as salaries, probably. More money would reach the welfare folks if they just sent it to them. But then, the beaurocrats would be out of a job. Quoting: NightWisp Sadly, great majority of the adults in those families, would probably take the cash, and overdose on drugs or be involved in alcohol related crimes/accidents with in the week. Could you imagine not ever seeing more then a few hundred dollars in one place at one time, and then suddenly having 10's of thousands? It would be chaos, and then the money would be gone, and of course more would be needed again. thats the biggest pile of stinking assumption in this thread! none of what you say is anything other than |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 21082551 United States 11/02/2012 06:31 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I don't know about that stuff whining about "welfare" but I can tell you this: the CRS report was WITHDRAWN at the insistence of congressional republicons. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 26832391 Why? Because the report found no evidence that tax cuts for high income earners lead to economic growth. In other words, it found that supply-side trickle-down economics is A BULLSHIT SCAM. [link to tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com] Thank You. Please say it again louder for those not listening. |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 25390958 United States 11/02/2012 06:48 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Firstly this poor household didnt get 60k, not that they deserve a penny for chilling and procreating, but the great proportion is for costs of the bureaucracy. Yes, most of the money was hijacked by Uncles minions, the gummint employee taking for themselves the forced charity from the public |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 26768633 United States 11/02/2012 07:44 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I don't know about that stuff whining about "welfare" but I can tell you this: the CRS report was WITHDRAWN at the insistence of congressional republicons. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 26832391 Why? Because the report found no evidence that tax cuts for high income earners lead to economic growth. In other words, it found that supply-side trickle-down economics is A BULLSHIT SCAM. [link to tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com] off course it is. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 25818130 Canada 11/02/2012 07:49 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | According to an October 16 memorandum prepared by the Congressional Research Service (CRS) for the Senate Budget Committee, the federal government spent $746 billion on means-tested welfare programs in 2011. As the U.S. Census Bureau notes, there were 16.8 million households living below the poverty level in America in 2011. In other words, if the federal government were to give this money directly to the impoverished households, all 16.8 million households would have received over $44,000. This is double the 2011 federal poverty rate of $22,350 for a family of four, and nearly double the 2012 poverty rate of $23,050 for a family of four. Quoting: Too Dark Park Read more hm'yah: [link to thenewamerican.com] Rigggghhhhhttttt..... and for every dollar actually given to the poor, about 10 is given to the highly inefficient beaurocracy that runs the programs. And if it weren't for the beaurocracy, the USA would be experiencing an extreme depression. Afterall, the government keeps people employed. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 25818130 Canada 11/02/2012 07:51 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | According to an October 16 memorandum prepared by the Congressional Research Service (CRS) for the Senate Budget Committee, the federal government spent $746 billion on means-tested welfare programs in 2011. As the U.S. Census Bureau notes, there were 16.8 million households living below the poverty level in America in 2011. In other words, if the federal government were to give this money directly to the impoverished households, all 16.8 million households would have received over $44,000. This is double the 2011 federal poverty rate of $22,350 for a family of four, and nearly double the 2012 poverty rate of $23,050 for a family of four. Quoting: Too Dark Park Read more hm'yah: [link to thenewamerican.com] Rigggghhhhhttttt..... and for every dollar actually given to the poor, about 10 is given to the highly inefficient beaurocracy that runs the programs. And if it weren't for the beaurocracy, the USA would be experiencing an extreme depression. Afterall, the government keeps people employed. Ooops, bad spelling error: bureaucracy |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 26703111 United Kingdom 11/02/2012 09:19 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Wow, someone needs to go back to grade school math class. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 1477165 Those numbers are fake as all hell. Just giving another reason to hate on the poor is all. And how exactly do you know those numbers are fake? And why is this giving a reason to 'hate on the poor'? seems more like a reason to hate big government waste and inefficiency - doesn't it!? Beaurocracies are all alike - their first priority is to look after themselves, their fat plushy careers, entitlements and pensions, public image, political ideologies etc ......................last on their list is actually the people they are supposed to be helping. |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 14350080 United States 11/02/2012 10:26 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Wow, someone needs to go back to grade school math class. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 1477165 Those numbers are fake as all hell. Just giving another reason to hate on the poor is all. And how exactly do you know those numbers are fake? And why is this giving a reason to 'hate on the poor'? seems more like a reason to hate big government waste and inefficiency - doesn't it!? Beaurocracies are all alike - their first priority is to look after themselves, their fat plushy careers, entitlements and pensions, public image, political ideologies etc ......................last on their list is actually the people they are supposed to be helping. Thanks a lot for making go look at an article from the New Replublican. Barf. It hurt! The figures that I have seen, the figure used in the presidential debates, are 45 million have received some sort of government assistance. The 16.8 million used for the calculations in the number of people below the federal proverty rate. (I didn't check that number to see if it was correct.) Then I used $7.35 as the minimum wage x 40 hrs x 52 weeks and I get a salary of $15,288 for those making minimum wage working 40 hours a week for 52 weeks. So, guess what, go get a job and ya still goin be poor! Trickle, trickle, trickle sure seems to take a long time! Prices keep going up, up, up. One of the reasons being that the rich keep buying, buying, buying driving the prices up! If no one were to buy that $30K+ car, or that gas, or those groceries seems the prices would drop in a hurry! |
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nzreva User ID: 19624091 United States 11/02/2012 11:04 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | According to an October 16 memorandum prepared by the Congressional Research Service (CRS) for the Senate Budget Committee, the federal government spent $746 billion on means-tested welfare programs in 2011. As the U.S. Census Bureau notes, there were 16.8 million households living below the poverty level in America in 2011. In other words, if the federal government were to give this money directly to the impoverished households, all 16.8 million households would have received over $44,000. This is double the 2011 federal poverty rate of $22,350 for a family of four, and nearly double the 2012 poverty rate of $23,050 for a family of four. Quoting: Too Dark Park Read more hm'yah: [link to thenewamerican.com] |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 26848717 Germany 11/02/2012 11:07 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I don't know about that stuff whining about "welfare" but I can tell you this: the CRS report was WITHDRAWN at the insistence of congressional republicons. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 26832391 Why? Because the report found no evidence that tax cuts for high income earners lead to economic growth. In other words, it found that supply-side trickle-down economics is A BULLSHIT SCAM. [link to tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com] Right, tax cuts for high-income earners never lead to economic growth. |