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Current Events => Politics => Topic started by: Chris_ on October 30, 2012, 03:13:56 PM
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Report: Enough Spent on Welfare Programs in 2011 to Write Every Poor Household a $59,523 Check
The federal government spent enough money on federal means-tested welfare programs to have sent each impoverished household a check for nearly $60,000, according to figures from the Census Bureau and the Congressional Research Service (CRS).
According to a report from the CRS produced for Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.), $1 trillion was spent on federal welfare programs during fiscal year 2011 – with $746 billion in federal funds and $254 in state matching funds.
The U.S. Census Bureau reported that there were approximately 16.8 million households living below the federal poverty level of $23,000 per year for a family of four in 2011. ( See: 2011 Households Below Poverty 2011.pdf )
CNS News (http://cnsnews.com/news/article/report-enough-spent-welfare-programs-2011-write-every-poor-household-59523-check)
Must be nice to be poor.
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Bureaucracy and red tape consumed most of the money in the war on poverty. Poverty won the war with it's biggest ally being the government.
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If it actually got to poor people, that would defeat the point.
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Bureaucracy and red tape consumed most of the money in the war on poverty. Poverty won the war with it's biggest ally being the government.
$59,523 - $23,000 = $36,523 in Federal salaries, aka "the middleman"....
If it actually got to poor people, that would defeat the point.
...which would result in great unemployment - among Federal employees.
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$59,523 - $23,000 = $36,523 in Federal salaries, aka "the middleman"....
...which would result in great unemployment - among Federal employees.
That would just mean they would have to find productive work. Besides, lefties have no problem adding to the unemployed ranks if they come from military cuts.
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$59,523 - $23,000 = $36,523 in Federal salaries, aka "the middleman".
That's where all the jobs Obama "saved or created" went to.