Obamaland: Hope and Change

[OntheRail]

Hey Mister can you spare a dime....

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More than 1/3 of Americans on welfare

According to new numbers from the Census Bureau, nearly 110 million Americans are receiving welfare benefits. This is 35.4% of the entire country.

from CNS:

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.

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[JustRalph]

Incredible numbers. Devastating indicator of a lack of leadership for 25 yrs or more

There has to be a tipping point. Eventually the workers can no longer pull the wagon

[Tom]

Democrats think that money, like their stupid ideas, comes out of their asses.

[davew]

Democrats think that money, like their stupid ideas, comes out of their asses.

doesn't it?

[Marshall Bennett]

Incredible numbers. Devastating indicator of a lack of leadership for 25 yrs or more

There has to be a tipping point. Eventually the workers can no longer pull the wagon
Hence the urgent shift toward socialism. Democrats make the bottom class more and more attractive which cost more and more to maintain. Eventually we're left with no other system of government to keep the economy alive.

[Stillriledup]

its easy to blame Obama or Bush or any recent president, but seriously, how far have we come in the last 10 years from a technology standpoint? that puts people out of jobs. Also, the population isn't getting any smaller, so that also puts people out of jobs. People who were born in 1997 and 1998 are just getting ready to either go to college or go into the workforce...that's not too long ago...but, where are all the jobs?

I think people who get any kind of welfare need to show serious effort to find work. They need a person who checks on welfare people to see if they're filling out applications, going on interviews and at least making an attempt to work. That's just a start.

[Marshall Bennett]

I think people who get any kind of welfare need to show serious effort to find work. They need a person who checks on welfare people to see if they're filling out applications, going on interviews and at least making an attempt to work. That's just a start.
That requires funding and intelligent people, neither of which this government can offer. They'd rather focus on funding opportunity for more to jump on board and get benefits for sitting on their asses.
It's a matter of whether the train wreck occurs first domestically or by some Islam organization abroad attacking us.

[tucker6]

Incredible numbers. Devastating indicator of a lack of leadership for 25 yrs or more

Not sure I agree or disagree with your number. Bush II and Obama gutted this country economically, but I can't say the same for Clinton. He did balance the budget and focus on improving the lives of all Americans. He didn't always succeed, and things sometimes went backwards, but overall I thought he tried to lead us economically pretty well. I don't expect to see home runs at every at bat. With Obama especially, I see strikeouts predominately. So I'd put the number at 14 years.

[JustRalph]

Not sure I agree or disagree with your number. Bush II and Obama gutted this country economically, but I can't say the same for Clinton. He did balance the budget and focus on improving the lives of all Americans. He didn't always succeed, and things sometimes went backwards, but overall I thought he tried to lead us economically pretty well. I don't expect to see home runs at every at bat. With Obama especially, I see strikeouts predominately. So I'd put the number at 14 years.


NAFTA

Bill Gates and the computer industry as a whole should get credit for the 90's

That bursting economy rode the tech sector wave