One-Third of Us on Welfare

Imagine for a moment there are only two people on planet earth – Farmer A and Farmer B – just those two.  And Farmer A is on unemployment benefits.  Who would you guess is paying for those?

by Curtis Coleman, Contributing Author: There are startling new statistics from the U. S. Census Bureau.  According to the Bureau, nearly 110 million individuals received some welfare benefits in 2011. To put that into perspective, that’s nearly one-third of the population of the United States! And it doesn’t include those who are benefiting only from Social Security or Medicare.

This figure has risen from less than 98 million just since 2009. And there’s more distressing news. Since 2000 Medicaid has increased from 34 million people to 54 million, and food stamp recipients have risen from 17 million to 45 million people in 2011.

Surely it’s a shocking wakeup call to Americans when one-third of our population is on welfare! And the Obama Administration is making that a lot worse, since it has stripped the welfare-to-work program of its work requirements Until now, to receive welfare, a recipient had to prove that he or she was at least looking for work. That requirement is now gone, so it requires no presumption whatsoever to predict that our welfare roles are about to explode exponentially.

And this Administration is talking about raising taxes to pay for all this. No nation in history has ever been taxed into prosperity – and the United States will not be the first.

So if our Farmer A needs more government help, Farmer B must pay ever higher taxes. But as much as he may like working and farming, there will come a time when Farmer B will throw up his hands and say, “It’s not worth it.” And that is exactly where our current President is leading us.
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Curtis Coleman is the President, Curtis Coleman's Institute for Constitutional Policy and contributing author to the ARRA News Service.

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