Sarah Palin

More Pie Eaters Than Pie Makers = Eventually Everyone Begs For Crumbs

I love my commonsense conservative blue collar friends in Alaska! One sent this about the record percentage of Americans now on welfare:
http://dailycaller.com/2014/07/08/hh...ns-on-welfare/
... As Reagan famously said, the best social program is a job. Liberal policies make job creation scare. Liberal policies lead to bankrupt cities like Detroit. Liberal policies lead to government dependency. Liberal policies destroy freedom and ruin lives. There is only one way to avoid liberal policies: Don’t vote for liberals. Remember that this November.
And speaking of destructive liberal policies… As the humanitarian crisis continues along our southern border, our liberal President was in Texas fundraising and shooting pool in a bar yesterday instead of doing his job to plug the holes in our border. Just like the press conference he's giving right now, he’s mastering the twists while just talking about the problems, laying blame and passing the buck. Enough is enough. Congress needs to defend itself as he lays blame on them for the open border crisis that he created.
The point is he's DISTRACTING again, telling us, "It's all about the children," and Congress is now the bad guy for not funding his requested billions to support and invite more illegal aliens. America, don't take your eye off the ball. The funding issue he's talking about is NOT the problem. Don't get sucked into his pivots.

- Sarah Palin









President Barack Obama listens after nominating Director of the Office of Management and Budget Sylvia Mathews Burwell (R) to replace outgoing U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius (not seen), during a ceremony in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, April 11, 2014. (REUTERS/Larry Downing)

HHS: Record Number Of Americans On Welfare

6:25 PM 07/08/2014
Jonah Bennett

A new report issued by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has determined that the recorded percentage of Americans on welfare has hit an all-time high, CNS News reports.
Covered up to 2011, the report examines the percentage of all persons in the U.S. who live in families that receive welfare. HHS’ calculations draw from data extending back to 1993.
HHS counted participation in any of just three federal programs, Temporary Assistance to Needy Families, Supplemental Security Income and food stamps, in order to qualify as a welfare recipient for the purposes of their study.
In this respect, HHS differs slightly from the Census Bureau’s definition, which includes someone receiving benefits from one or more means-tested government program. Based on Census Bureau data, the number of Americans on welfare in the fourth quarter of 2011 totaled 108,592,000, adding up to 35.4 percent of Americans.
Removing the “means-tested” clause, the Census Bureau stated that the number of Americans on government benefits reached an incredible 49.2 percent of the total population.
The HHS data, however, indicate that 23.1 percent of Americans were recipients of welfare in 2011, the highest it has ever reached since HHS started recording data. Divided further, up to 38 percent of all children under five were welfare recipients, as well, in the same year, and this figure has jumped in recent years, from 20 percent in 2000.
The recipient rates of non-Hispanic blacks reached up to 39.7 percent, with non-white Hispanics following closely at 36.4 percent.
Women were also more likely than men to be on welfare. Between ages 16 to 64, 23.3 percent of women received welfare, while only 19.2 of men received any benefits. In looking at gendered households, married-couple families were least likely to be on welfare, with the opposite being true for female-headed families, which received welfare at a rate of 55 percent.
The report further notes that, “Children living in families with never-married mothers are at high risk of becoming dependent as adults.”
The data does not capture welfare usage during previous downturns, such as the Great Depression or the 1990-91 recession, because it only goes back to 1993.

http://dailycaller.com/2014/07/08/hh...ns-on-welfare/