Government Dependence Surges 23% Under Obama, Biggest Jump Since Jimmy Carter…
All hail the welfare state!
Via IBD:
The American public’s dependence on the federal government shot up 23% in just two years under President Obama, with 67 million now relying on some federal program, according to a newly released study by the Heritage Foundation.
The conservative think tank’s annual Index of Dependence on Government tracks money spent on housing, health, welfare, education subsidies and other federal programs that were “traditionally provided to needy people by local organizations and families.”
The increase under Obama is the biggest two-year jump since Jimmy Carter was president, the data show.
The rise was driven mainly by increases in housing subsidies, an expansion in Medicaid and changes to the welfare system, along with a sharp rise in food stamps, the study found.
Posted by ZIP on Wednesday, February 8, 2012, at 9:33 am | 
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Mission Accomplished.
Not a bug — but the main feature.
In related news, the number of lifetime Democratic voters also increased by 23%.
Saw this headline over @ Drudge: Cuban blogger riles with her weapon of words —- This statement stood out…”I’ve also learnt that the more restrictions there are, the less people have and the more subservient they become to who dispenses it – the state.” Great, just great.
Wait til flawless leader has He11care going @ full steam.
People needing help is also at an all-time high—thanks to the last Republican administration ruining this economy.
tadcf I think you just soiled yourself. Better have your handler help you change your jammies.
@tadcf-
Seriously- if you’re going to dabble in the psychoactive drugs, you need to lock away the keyboard.
Axelrod ain’t paying you to get stoned, son.
What the hell are they planning on doing when people who work like hell to pay for all the free shit decide they have had enough and decide to join the masses of leeches? Then where will the money come from?
@Smokey says:
February 8, 2012 at 10:08 am
What the hell are they planning on doing when people who work like hell to pay for all the free shit decide they have had enough and decide to join the masses of leeches? Then where will the money come from?
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That’s when the re-education camps come into play – the former taxpayers will all be forced into these camps to get their “minds right”. Those who do will be returned to work the beet farms and the rest will be executed as “enemies of the state”. Right, straight out of the Communist playbook!
Then we hear from leftards like Babs or Barbara Streisand who wrote a piece in the Puffington Post insisting that Obama did not increase food stamps even though it was easily researched that he increased them more then twice in 3 years then what Bush did in 8 years.
Babs should stick to singing with her mouth instead of trying to talk out of her ass.
@tadcf
Selective amnesia? Did you forget the Democrats gained control in 2006? It’s at the same time unemployment/gov’t dependency began rising.
@Sentinel………kinda scarry thought ….but with this bunch in power, you may just have something there………I for one will not go down without a fight!
ignore tadcf.
Please.
No surprise here except that we don’t have a Reagan to save our butts…
@Smokey
Nothing new under the sun; Stalin did this, Mao Tse Tung did this, the Khmer Rouge did this in Cambodia, Castro did this – hell this is Standard Operating Procedure for all Communist/Socialists.
Once they have taken full control, the first order of business is to kill those who helped them rise to power by betraying their countryment. Once a traitor, always a traitor and the new rulers don’t won’t anyone who can be a threat to them. Stalin chased down Trotsky and had him killed in Mexico City. Pol Pot had all the educated/learned people of Cambodia killed and Mao had huge camps where millions died getting their minds right.
Next order of business is the re-education of the masses (don’t believe this, just watch “The Killing Fields” as to how it’s done). Those who confess and comply will be returned to back breaking labor for the rest of their short lives. Those who don’t will be quickly executed. Perfect order! The masters now have the masses under control by using threats and hunger.
Just wait; our new masters are waiting in the wings for us.
And all under a liberal demacRAT to
i think TADCF has a point.
I also think that Rosie Odonnel is smoking hot, michael moore is a epitome of physical fintess, president clinton was faithful to his wife, eric holder is straight down the middle when it comes to voter fraud cases, 911 was done by the JOOOOS, jimmy carter is masculine, and president barack’s domestic energy policy of shutting down our own drilling and dumping billions in the pockets of his green energy buddies makes perfect sense.
/sarc
At the same time, fewer Americans pay income taxes, the report notes. Almost half (49.5%) didn’t pay income taxes in 2009, the latest year for which the researchers have data. Back in the late 1960s, only 12% of Americans escaped the income tax burden.
The number of people dependent on the federal government shot up 7.5% over the past two years.
In 2010, for the first time ever, average spending on dependence programs per recipient exceeded the country’s per-capita disposable income.
Want to bet 80% of Democrats didn’t pay taxes?
The question is when does it become slave labor for those that work and pay for everything ?
Thanks to ADD president Bush leaving the economy in turmoil, we now see more whites needing foodstamps. Whites are the majority on welfare and it is not the blacks who are the majority.
Where is Bush now? We don’t even hear from him anymore. Only a sissy will throw his rocks and hide.
I would take Bush any day over Oblowhole, he has done his job 51% are now on entitlements. We have only 49% paying taxes, he is completing what he set out to do…SPREAD THE WEALTH OR SHOULD WE SAY ENTITLEMENTS.
Oblowhole wants taxes to increase to 39.5% and if you live in Calif it is 11%, Hmmmm that make a whopping 50.5% in taxes!!! WAKE UP AMERICA WE HAVE AN IDIOT IN THE WHITE HOUSE!!!!!