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Originally Posted by SteveA
Wow, how did you miss "effete" and "intellectual" in your rant?  You could get your John Birch Society merit badge yanked! 
Hate to burst your balloon, but here are the researched facts on welfare in the USA.
http://www.anitra.net/homelessness/c...ightmyths.html
Of course, you can just dismiss all of this actual researched information, because Ronald Reagan didn't say it. He just coined the phrase "Welfare Queens" and then proceeded to raise taxes seven times in his eight years in office. 
BTW, Cicero had lot's to say... including this.
"It is a true saying that "One falsehood leads easily to another". "
Cicero |
One of the facts stated was that welfare "only" costs about 2% of the states and federal budget (the Fed budget is 3.5 T, lets round the states off to another $500B for a total of $4,000,000,000,000.00). 2 percent is $80,000,000,000.00 (80 Billion). There is need, but there is a lot of waste.
My wife managed subsidized apartments as part of her portfolio for many years. She saw it all- the good and the bad.