As a result of Obamacare Medicaid expansion coupled with means-tested Obamacare assistance, I estimate welfare rolls expanded from 35.4% of the population in 2012 to about 40% in 2014.
Let’s go through the math to see how I make that estimate.
The latest welfare statistics are from year-end 2012. Those figures show35.4 Percent: 109,631,000 on Welfare.
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.
When those receiving benefits from non-means-tested federal programs — such as Social Security, Medicare, unemployment and veterans benefits — were added to those taking welfare benefits, it turned out that 153,323,000 people were getting federal benefits of some type at the end of 2012.
Subtract the 3,297,000 who were receiving veterans’ benefits from the total, and that leaves 150,026,000 people receiving non-veterans’ benefits.
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How many of them would test positive for alcohol, tobacco, or drugs? None of which should be paid for (directly or indirectly) with government grants!
ReplyDeleteHow many of them have iPhones, luxury cars, or bling? All of these are items that should automatically fail the means testing criteria!
How many of them are unmarried - but live with boyfriends? Are the boyfriends the childrens fathers? Yes, I use the double plural as there are generally multiples of each! If the boyfriends fit any of the above categories, the state should declare them as common-law married and disqualify them.
Don't worry, I'm not picking on any single group as I have seen many different groups that fit in to the categories I have described above...and the disqualification should apply to all!
where's mine? guess I better get in line!
ReplyDeleteI notice they add in Social Security Medicare Unemployment and Veterans Benefits. These things are earned not handouts and don't belong in the same category.
ReplyDeleteTake the total amount and distribute it evenly to every US household.That would both provide a shot in the arm for each and every one of us and encourage those who don't work to at least look for work.In other words,everyone would automatically get entitlements whether they chose to use them or not,but at the end of the designated month everyone's balance would revert back to zero and start from scratch at the beginning of the next month.Use it or lose it.The very same amount spent by the government,just distributed evenly and fairly
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