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Current Events => Archives => Politics => Election 2012 => Topic started by: RobJohnson on October 30, 2012, 02:00:44 AM
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How is it possible that $60,000 is spent on each welfare family and yet Liberals are crying for even more money? The total payments amount to $1 trillion. There’s a layer of bureaucracy that exists between the $1 trillion dollars and the welfare recipients:
“According to the Census’s American Community Survey, the number of households with incomes below the poverty line in 2011 was 16,807,795. . . . If you divide total federal and state spending by the number of households with incomes below the poverty line, the average spending per household in poverty was $61,194 in 2011.â€
“This dollar figure is almost three times the amount the average household on poverty lives on per year. ‘If the spending on these programs were converted into cash, and distributed exclusively to the nation’s households below the poverty line, this cash amount would be over 2.5 times the federal poverty threshold for a family of four, which in 2011 was $22,350
Read more: http://MinuteMenNews.com/2012/10/govt-pays-a-whopping-60000-per-poor-family-ensuring-voter-loyalty/#ixzz2AlPTmGOb