More than half of Americans now depend on government subsidies

08/22/2014


Government dependency is on the rise, with more than half of all Americans relying on the government for survival. While the Obama administration is broadening eligibility, US citizens increasingly also say they prefer it this way.

Americans’ self-reliability has been decreasing as eligibility for Medicaid, food stamps, earned income tax credit, work pay tax credit and unemployment benefits have broadened since 2009 to allow more US citizens to enjoy them.

More than half of the US population – 165 million of 308 million Americans – is now dependent on the state in some form. Of these, 107 million Americans rely on government welfare, 46 million seniors collect Medicare and there are 22 million government employees.

The number of Americans on welfare have increased from 97 million to 107 million since President Obama took office, according to research by Ranking Member of the Senate Budget Committee Jeff Sessions. The number of Americans on food stamps during the president’s term has risen by more than 14 million.

“Under Obama’s plan, you wouldn’t have to work and wouldn’t have to train for a job – they’d just send you a welfare check,” stated a recent anti-Obama television advertisement.

And it seems that Americans increasingly want it that way. In 2011, a report by Globescan showed that the number of US citizens who believe in the strength of a free market economy dropped to 59 percent from 74 percent in the previous year, falling below Brazil and China. When Globescan first conducted this survey ten years ago, 80 percent of Americans favored a free market economic system.

Those with the lowest annual incomes were more likely to oppose a free market economy.


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Da Tovarich the infiltration of the once Democratic KKK Party is almost complete. Making the population slaves of the government is our aim. The Rodina would be proud of it's accomplishments in America. Comrade Nakita Khrushchev planned it well. (sarc.)

 

And with corporate inversion, more folks renouncing citizenship, countries abandoning of the petrodollar, and the decline of the U.S. economy to #3 in the world... the base of folks producing those welfare dollars is going to contract.

This is going to get a lot worse, before it get's any better.




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Obama's use of the Cloward-Piven theories are coming to fruition. people's What happens when he runs out of other money?

 

Decline to #3? Do you have a source for that erroneous statement?

 

great, another troll/bait thread.

 

Our GDP has been ranked number two since 2012 by the world bank when listing countries by purchasing power parity and it's barely moving. With current growth rates, it will decline to #3 around 2016.




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This worldbank says US still has #1 gdp by far. Do you care to provide a link?

http://data.worldbank.org/data-catalog/GDP-ranking-table

 

Notice how he said PPP makes a difference?

 

Notice he didn't provide a link and I asked for a link?