The welfare fraud

This chart as explained in this blog from Powerline reveals the dirty little secret behind federal spending and why we are in the soup and will remain so until all the Democrat Party constituencies are thoroughly rejected by the producers in the country.  It seems unimaginable but is a fact that if we sent each of the 17 million persons now living below the poverty line a check for 80,000 every years that would total the amount the federal government will spend on welfare.  Obviously there is a vast welfare industry out there that is busily spending and perpetuating itself year after year.  Where's the media on this fraud?

POSTED ON NOVEMBER 13, 2012 BY JOHN HINDERAKER IN FEDERAL BUDGET, FEDERAL DEBT AND DEFICIT, WELFARE

THE FEDERAL WELFARE EXPLOSION

Welfare is now the largest item in the federal budget, and under Barack Obama’s budget–the one that didn’t get any votes, but may nevertheless be a blueprint for the next four years–it is slated to grow another 30% in Obama’s second term. Welfare is now the largest category of federal spending; note that the figures in the chart include state contributions to federal welfare programs:

This is an astonishing fact: the amount spent on federal welfare programs last year was enough to mail a $60,000 check to every one of the 17 million households living beneath the poverty line. And that doesn’t include spending by state and local governments, which traditionally have had primary responsibility for welfare, or spending by private charities. This illustrates once again that the principal beneficiaries of welfare spending are not poor people, which is why Richard Nixon wanted to institute a negative income tax that would simply give money to poor people rather than supporting the vast welfare apparatus that exists mainly for other reasons.

With Congress now focused on negotiations over the fiscal cliff and the need to raise the debt ceiling, again, this bloated welfare spending should be a ripe area for major cuts.

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And Obama was rehired to solve these problems.  Wow!