The USA is a massive welfare state. Over 40% of the nation is dependent on government handouts of some kind–not counting the government’s administrators.
This sounds hard to believe. Believe it.
The money is running out. The deficit is huge. What will happen when Washington’s checks bounce?
Fact: “Once you become addicted to getting a government check in the mail, it can be very difficult to give that up. There are some that get trapped in a life of government dependence for years or even decades.”
Read more at Tea Party Economist.
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To the 40 odd million on Welfare, it is! This Communist jerk and his whole bunch of cronies in the House and Senate need to go!
Being a public school teacher, I guess (okay, I know) that I’ve been a Slave to socialism. How many corporations (think military especially) who are also SLAVES to the government.
Actually, there’s not a whole lot of bigger companies NOT indebted to government. That’s probably WHY the “system” owns us and would be hard to break free of.
yes this jerk wad is responsible for the gravy train, and on average, these jokers are pulling down some 30K a year in entitlements from this freak…………would you want to give it up??? of course not………….but the gravy cannot forever keep flowing, one always runs out of other peoples money!!!