Welfare Nation- One third of US wages now come from handouts

[GMScud]

All these baby boomers reaching retirement age isn't helping of course...

[firstdown]

Originally Posted by GMScud

All these baby boomers reaching retirement age isn't helping of course...

If the government did not steel our SS money to use for everything else SS would not be in any trouble. What the government did with our SS money is no different then what Bernard Madoff did with investors money. Yet the dumb public have no problem with the government misappropriating funds but wanted Madoff to hang.

[mlmpetert]

I love me a entitlement discussion……

My beef with entitlement programs have nothing to do with the people that take free money, in fact to some degree I admire them. From the girl that says I might as well have another baby cause I aint working anyway to the kid posting pics on facebook of all the cool places he’s visiting around the country while on unemployment (its state of mind, brah). I believe its your duty as a patriot to take all that you are entitled to, just as much as it is to pay all that youre responsible for. In my mind how you use our “safety net” is purely discretionary.

I do however have a major problem with those that allow these programs to exist to the degree that they do. Its ridiculous that there’s ANY incentive whatsoever to stay unemployed longer than 1 month.

I was looking for a article I read a while back and couldn’t find it, but I did find this from heritage.org (a conservative site).

http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2010/06/confronting-the-unsustainable-growth-of-welfare-entitlements-principles-of-reform-and-the-next-steps