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Showing Original Post only (View all)"Seventy percent of the federal budget goes to individual assistance programs" [View all]
My local paper, which is not online has a right wing columnist who states that in his recent weekly column about freedloading Americans, a problem that he thinks will get worse over the next 4 years of Obama. Most of this columnist evidence is antedotal. I do wonder where he got the 70% figure. It just doesn't seem correct.
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Nikia
Dec 2012
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Sure it is. What do you mean? Even the Social Security Administration calls it that:
Loudly
Dec 2012
#19
Wat he means is that Social Security is not a welfare program and is not part of the federal budget
PSPS
Dec 2012
#21
why do you lump interest on the debt (6%) in there? SS & Medicare are the bulk of spending
HiPointDem
Dec 2012
#16
You're double counting. The interest owed to the TF so far is already *in* the TF.
HiPointDem
Dec 2012
#23
Exactly. The payroll tax cut was ultimately made up for by borrowing. n/t
PoliticAverse
Dec 2012
#43
I think it's not quite like that. Say there's $1000 in the TF, representing a debt the gov't
HiPointDem
Dec 2012
#39
yes, i agree. just saying that the long-term effect of the tax holiday isn't so clear. there's no
HiPointDem
Dec 2012
#47
Exactly. Why wouldn't it be 100% of the government costs going to the benefit of Americans?
BlueStreak
Dec 2012
#30
good catch. we should use their tactics and say that workers at all levels fund half the budget.
HiPointDem
Dec 2012
#17
Merely for those who might be interested (and willing to read a lot of tables)...
2naSalit
Dec 2012
#11
it's wrong. get a bunch of others together & send a letter of complaint with the correct data.
HiPointDem
Dec 2012
#12