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Welfare: US spent $3.7 trillion the past 5 years
Oct 24, 2013 00:17:39   #
oldroy Loc: Western Kansas (No longer in hiding)
 
That is very interesting, I think. Over $7 billion per year and nobody really knows the true number. It seems that all the people on SNAP could be getting more money from other programs and nobody can really check up on it.

http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/report-us-spent-37-trillion-welfare-over-last-5-years_764582.html

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Oct 24, 2013 16:42:30   #
bigbluecatfish
 
I wish people would stop crying about the people on food stamps who under this new world order have no say about nothing.They just have to get by any damn way they can. We need to put high tariff on all imported goods, pull out of all trade treaties. Retool our own factories. put our people back to the land growing the food here in American. I am s**k of hearing this bulls**t story about they cannot stop i*****l i*********n. Stalin once said if you shot one the other ten million will fall in line. Your would not have to shot the businessmen who are hiring i******s just give one or two five years in jail. Our country is gone it will soon just be another or part of Mexico . We should have acted 30 years ago. Soon we are not going to be able to overcome the Hispanic v**e with all the other 120 minority races are thrown in. This country is too large and too diversified to be manage. The most laughable bulls**t statement I have heard is that our strength is in our diversity . It is our nemesis. High welfare cost is here to stay is my point.

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Oct 25, 2013 06:44:03   #
jasfourth401
 
oldroy wrote:
That is very interesting, I think. Over $7 billion per year and nobody really knows the true number. It seems that all the people on SNAP could be getting more money from other programs and nobody can really check up on it.

http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/report-us-spent-37-trillion-welfare-over-last-5-years_764582.html


I find it scary. The majority of the 3.7 trillion is for medicaid and earned income tax credits. Heritage has an excellent detailed breakout you can access online. But the real danger is the huge deficits being run up in medicare. Those are going to bankrupt us. This link puts it into perspective.
http://www.heritage.org/federalbudget/medicare-spending-deficits

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Oct 25, 2013 11:34:50   #
roy
 
oldroy wrote:
That is very interesting, I think. Over $7 billion per year and nobody really knows the true number. It seems that all the people on SNAP could be getting more money from other programs and nobody can really check up on it.

http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/report-us-spent-37-trillion-welfare-over-last-5-years_764582.html


seems to have left out the corporate wefare number,of i think over 100 billion a year,how come thats always left out

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Oct 25, 2013 11:43:38   #
oldroy Loc: Western Kansas (No longer in hiding)
 
jasfourth401 wrote:
I find it scary. The majority of the 3.7 trillion is for medicaid and earned income tax credits. Heritage has an excellent detailed breakout you can access online. But the real danger is the huge deficits being run up in medicare. Those are going to bankrupt us. This link puts it into perspective.
http://www.heritage.org/federalbudget/medicare-spending-deficits


Every time I look at one of those things and see Medicare and Social Security thrown in with the real entitlements and called that I get mad. I have been paying into Social Security for over 65 years, although I have been collecting it for nearly 16 years. I have been paying into Medicare ever since its inception so I also don't consider that one an entitlement either. To me entitlements are those things you collect because of being a person and have never paid into. I wonder if the people at Heritage or any other place like that know that we retired people are still paying into Medicare. In case you don't know about that I still have over 10% of my Social Security check deducted each month for Medicare.

I still wonder how many people who call those two programs entitlements really know the difference between them and Medicaid and other welfare programs.

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