Post by jeffolie on Aug 8, 2012 15:45:31 GMT -6
Conservatives have attacked the poor with the 100M welfare label, bah humbug
Those on programs such as Food Stamps ,etc are poor. Consevatives rarely get many votes from the poor, so this attack on federal programs will not cost them many votes ... this is mean, bah humbug campaigning ... taking the low road
More than mean spirited talk
The farm bill is stopped while record heat and severe drought hurt corn farmers because the largest portion, 80% of the farm bill is funding Food Stamps. The coming conservatives gain in political power that I have been prediction for years in this Nov will mean less compromise is likely next year on fed programs such as Food Stamps.
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Over 100 Million Now Receiving Federal Welfare
Aug 8, 2012
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.
Food stamps and Medicaid make up a large--and growing--chunk of the more than 100 million recipients. "Among the major means tested welfare programs, since 2000 Medicaid has increased from 34 million people to 54 million in 2011 and the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP, or food stamps) from 17 million to 45 million in 2011," says the Senate Budget Committee. "Spending on food stamps alone is projected to reach $800 billion over the next decade."
The data come "from the U.S. Census’s Survey of Income and Program Participation shows that nearly 110,000 million individuals received a welfare benefit in 2011. (These figures do not include other means-tested benefits such as the Earned Income Tax Credit or the health insurance premium subsidies included in the President’s health care law. CBO estimates that the premium subsidies, scheduled to begin in 2014, will cover at least 25 million individuals by the end of the decade.)"
This is not just Americans, however. "These figures include not only citizens, but non-citizens as well," according to the committee.
www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/over-100-million-now-receiving-federal-welfare_649589.html
Those on programs such as Food Stamps ,etc are poor. Consevatives rarely get many votes from the poor, so this attack on federal programs will not cost them many votes ... this is mean, bah humbug campaigning ... taking the low road
More than mean spirited talk
The farm bill is stopped while record heat and severe drought hurt corn farmers because the largest portion, 80% of the farm bill is funding Food Stamps. The coming conservatives gain in political power that I have been prediction for years in this Nov will mean less compromise is likely next year on fed programs such as Food Stamps.
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Over 100 Million Now Receiving Federal Welfare
Aug 8, 2012
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.
Food stamps and Medicaid make up a large--and growing--chunk of the more than 100 million recipients. "Among the major means tested welfare programs, since 2000 Medicaid has increased from 34 million people to 54 million in 2011 and the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP, or food stamps) from 17 million to 45 million in 2011," says the Senate Budget Committee. "Spending on food stamps alone is projected to reach $800 billion over the next decade."
The data come "from the U.S. Census’s Survey of Income and Program Participation shows that nearly 110,000 million individuals received a welfare benefit in 2011. (These figures do not include other means-tested benefits such as the Earned Income Tax Credit or the health insurance premium subsidies included in the President’s health care law. CBO estimates that the premium subsidies, scheduled to begin in 2014, will cover at least 25 million individuals by the end of the decade.)"
This is not just Americans, however. "These figures include not only citizens, but non-citizens as well," according to the committee.
www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/over-100-million-now-receiving-federal-welfare_649589.html