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Recovery? Half of American Households Living on Government Benefits

rick1907 Wrote: May 26, 2012 7:49 PM

John, just like a lib...."it's too hard, maybe people will suffer."" They can do what Reagan did in Ca many years ago. He made people re-apply. Many didn't because they'd goten on the dole fraudulently. Also, under Obama the SS Admin has really loosened up the rules for people getting on the dole (which is his aim).

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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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