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

after you great, great, great grandkids get done paying the interest, it will be.

for truth!

Almost half our country is leaching.

Obamacare is also welfare Moran

Did you know the highest usage of food stamps is in red states? This is fact, more registered repubs use govt aid than any other group in the US.

Lol i aint payin that shit down, have fun other suckers

People usually count medicare, medicaid, and social security when they talk about the "welfare state". 220 billion is just direct transfers which isn't to say that the war spending is a huge driver of the debt too; because it is...

OP its the Republican world view from from their little Alternate Universe where NO ONE COULD POSSIBLY want something different other than what THEY think. This country is growing AGAINST the GOP base. They dont see, they dont hear and the just dont understand and to be honest, I feel a little sorry for them because they are clearly very lost. Thats a difficult place to be I reckon.

Yeah, but that's only because the black mooslim in the White House is tanking the economy.

oh yeah come to chicago and go shopping jerkoff.watch pile hundreds of dollars of free food in a 50,000 car.all on the 'card'.we are having hamburger helper tonight after work of course

Sounds like a very scientific testimony. You must be right.

This is so accurate. America is becoming a more science based rational type of society. This is due to the wealth of information on the internet and increase in I.Q. this all means a shift away from Republican signle issue religion based politics. Everyone is sick of it. Bush will be the last Republican president unless the Republican party ousts the religious fanatics.

The war(s) are the giant welfare program, ya dummy.

OP

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.


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[link to www.heritage.org]

I told u OP is Moran

Libtards don't understand basic budgetary facts and figures. They just parrot what they hear on MSM. Bush's war ruined our economy! Its Bush's fault!

Well of course, when you add in corporate welfare the amount is insane!

No, they'er not!

[link to en.wikipedia.org]

Percentage of the Total Federal Budget

Medicare and Medicaid 23%

Social Security 20%

Other Mandatory 13%

Discretionary Spending 18%

DEFENSE 19%

Interest on the Debt 6%


Ya dummy!

Not to mention blue states are all the hubs. Look at where they're located; the coasts. They all have naturally better economies as they're larger cities. They're also prime vacation spots which get most of their revenue from tourists.

What the hell are you talking about?

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)."

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.

Great analysis but who said anything about non-working poor?

Federal Expenditures on Entitlements is the subject. Spending is spending.

Um...

You're just counting welfare.

Actual welfare spending is all the free shit added up.

[link to dailycaller.com]

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The government spent approximately $1.03 trillion on 83 means-tested federal welfare programs in fiscal year 2011 alone — a price tag that makes welfare that year the government’s largest expenditure, according to new data released by the Republican side of the Senate Budget Committee.

The total sum taxpayers spent on federal welfare programs was derived from a new Congressional Research Service (CRS) report on federal welfare spending — which topped out at $745.84 billion for fiscal year 2011 — combined with an analysis from the Republican Senate Budget Committee staff of state spending on federal welfare programs (based on “The Oxford Handbook of State and Local Government Finance”), which reached $282.7 billion in fiscal year 2011.

Read more: [link to dailycaller.com]

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It topped 1.028 TRILLION in FY2011. That's a new record and tops all other budget line items.

You know it went up in 2012, also.


Dumbass.

Not that I give a shit anymore. We've hit the tipping point. The eaters now outnumber the feeders.

Won't be long now.

These dumbasses that cry about citizen welfare all day are ridiculous.

If they think that's bad, they better not look at the corporate welfare numbers.

Whew.

TEN times as much money.

We got Obama! Free shit for everyone!

I say we close the gap and give corporate cell phones.

Can't favor one group over another!

I guess I could have made it more clear, that "Black Mooslim in the White house" line was meant to be taken sarcastically.

I pointed out the non-working poor because it seems that most people who think of "welfare" think of the money going to people who like to do nothing but sit on their asses all day when in actuality a very small percentage of welfare expenditures go to them. People are constantly complaining about their tax dollars going to welfare recipients when corporations and the wealthy are the ones getting way more of our tax expenditures.

What gets me is the fact that people think that money just vanishes into thin air when it gets doled out, when it really doesn't.

It goes into the hands of shop owners and providers of services. Who in turn spend it on something else. So on and so forth until tax season rolls back around, and it gets back into the hands of the gov'ment.

If you are looking for where we are hemorrhaging money that never gets seen again, you need to be looking into the pockets of corporations who spend it all overseas.

Now as to where the money that gets doled out COMES from, that's another whole can of worms. But don't hate that money gets injected INTO our communities. It's still here at least.

Like all the landlords with tenants on Section 8 who are as much welfare recipients as any welfare queen.