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The Truth Behind
Our Entitlement Culture
FOX Business, by Steve Tobak
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Posted By:smcchk, 2/8/2013 11:29:08 PM
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| Entitlements are two-thirds of the federal budget. Entitlement spending has grown 100-fold over the past 50 years. Half of all American households now rely on government handouts. When we hear statistics like that, most of us shake our heads and mutter some sort of expletive. That’s because nobody thinks they’re the problem. Nobody ever wants to think they’re the problem. But that’s not the truth. The truth is, as long as we continue to think of the rising entitlement culture in America as someone else’s problem, someone else’s fault, we’ll never truly understand it
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
ColonialAmerican1623, 2/9/2013 1:25:49 AM (No. 9166769)
Thanks for posting.
They left out the entitlement in the wh.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Spidey, 2/9/2013 5:32:28 AM (No. 9166825)
Everybody who voted against Obama realizes entitlements as a runaway freight train in this country.Obviously Obama supporters couldn´t care less about the financial status of this country.
We´re having problems funding the government,even with bloated budgets in every dept. but somehow Uncle Ben can find another $45 billion a month to give Obama smoochers in the stock market,incomprehensible wealth.
It would seem to me that the stock market boom would be generating billions in capital gains sales but i don´t see evidence of it. This has to mean people benefiting are in tax havens like the Caymans.Obama´s new treasury nom has money buried in the caymans.
You really have a two headed monster of welfare type entitlement people and the super rich who are really benefiting from Obama and the fed´s policies.The average working person is getting left behind in the dust and will be a lot poorer once Obamacare kicks in.
Obama doles out trinkets to the lo fo´s to get them to the polls and the fat cats to finance his overthrow of the government.
Still no electric in some parts of NY,yet they can buy a billions rounds of ammunition.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Country Boy, 2/9/2013 6:46:00 AM (No. 9166863)
I agree with most of that, except ... I don´t care how much the CEO of any company makes, or any Hollywood person or professional athlete either.
Also, I think that it is very trendy when blaming, to ALWAYS blame somebody private sector, or conservative, added to government. But the truth is government is 95% of our problem. Liberals are our problem. It is a total fiction to say "both sides need to give". Give what?? 100 years of liberal nirvana has destroyed the country. There is nothing for conservatives to give. If libs would just go away, our problems would be solved.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
stablemoney, 2/9/2013 11:35:47 AM (No. 9167364)
Understand the point, but still, the government has stolen ss, rather than putting it in trust funds, and since it was deducted from my pay, I would like to propose omitting that from the handout characterization.
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