35% of U.S. Wages Come From Welfare Handouts (unemployment, salaries, Baby Boomers)

[highcotton]

35% of U.S. Wages Come From Welfare Handouts

"Even as the economy has recovered, social welfare benefits make up 35 percent of wages and salaries this year, up from 21 percent in 2000 and 10 percent in 1960."

[sanrene]

Obamanomics...in full swing!!

This is what liberal policies will get you - a welfare, nanny state.

[theunbrainwashed]

Some nutcases would call this progress

[malamute]

This is not sustainable whatsoever yet the socialists will defend the increase in welfare handouts.

[TempesT68]

Farm subsidies, corporate hand outs and the #1 recipients of welfare, poor southern republicans need to get their benefits cut or abolished completely.

[chucksnee]

Lets go for a full 5 years of welfare benefits....

(sarcasm)

[Jaggy001]

"up from 21 percent in 2000 and 10 percent in 1960"

"In order to get welfare back to its pre-recession ratio of 26 percent of pay"

So I guess that GwB was complicit in the welfare nanny state too

[legalsea]

From the linked article:

"Government payouts—including Social Security, Medicare and unemployment insurance—make up more than a third of total wages and salaries of the U.S. population, a record figure that will only increase if action isn’t taken before the majority of Baby Boomers enter retirement."

So, it is not just 'welfare', but also includes you clowns sitting at your computer during a workday, I imagine receiving Federal disability benefits, scanning the internet for articles like this.

[Chango]

Originally Posted by highcotton

35% of U.S. Wages Come From Welfare Handouts

"Even as the economy has recovered, social welfare benefits make up 35 percent of wages and salaries this year, up from 21 percent in 2000 and 10 percent in 1960."

And here I am paying for my groceries/bills myself, like a sucker!

Well, at least I'm a FREE and INDEPENDANT sucker! That used to count for something, once upon a time...

[EinsteinsGhost]

Originally Posted by TempesT68

Farm subsidies, corporate hand outs and the #1 recipients of welfare, poor southern republicans need to get their benefits cut or abolished completely.

Fascists don't waste their time on corporate welfare. Their concern is only with anything "social".