IN MARCH OF 2013, I WROTE: About 49 percent of Americans live in households that receive some form of government benefits, according to the libertarian Mercatus Center at George Mason University, based on data from 2010. Not all of those people, however, are dependent on those benefits. A significant proportion of government assistance comes in the form of Social Security and Medicare, for which eligibility is based on age rather than need. Considering only “means-tested” programs, such as food stamps, Medicaid, and housing assistance, around 35 percent of Americans live in households that benefit from government assistance. By the time Obama is done with his second term he will have so many people on the government payroll for the first time in history it will be impossible for people to vote republican without taking a pay cut. Personally – I said when Obama got elected in 2008 – We will never see another Republican President again. Demographics are changing too fast and Obama is plucking them off one by one and sticking the new demographics in his back pocket. It’s over. That’s just my opinion. READ ON...
Posted on: Sat, 18 Oct 2014 17:16:27 +0000
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