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100 Million Americans Now On Some Form Of Welfare
Thursday, August 9, 2012 8:21
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Rick Moran
The future? Or simply the high point of dependency before a reverse?
That’s what the election will be about.
The Weekly Standard:
A new chart set to be released later today by the Republican side of the Senate Budget Committee details a startling statistic: “Over 100 Million People in U.S. Now Receiving Some Form Of Federal Welfare.”
“The federal government administers nearly 80 different overlapping federal means-tested welfare programs,” the Senate Budget Committee notes. However, the committee states, the figures used in the chart do not include those who are only benefiting from Social Security and/or Medicare.
