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Recovery? Half of American Households Living on Government Benefits

LadyHigglesby Wrote: May 26, 2012 10:15 PM

NOTW, be very careful with these vicious Marxists posting in here. They will deliberately lie about something you said or cleverly distort it. When they do it, call them on it immediately or others will come to believe it by mere virtue of the fat you do not get tigjht back in their lying Commie feces faces.

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Recovery? Half of American Households Living on Government Benefits

Some astoundingly grim news on the "economic recovery" front: half of American households are receiving government funds to support themselves. No matter which way you slice it, this number isn't good news for the Obama administration -- they can spin the jobs numbers by ignoring the number of people who dropped out of the workforce, but this statistic is pretty straightforward.

The 49.1% of the population in a household that gets benefits is up from 30% in the early 1980s and 44.4% as recently as the third quarter of 2008.

The increase in recent years is...

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