
In leaked video, Romney says many Obama supporters are ‘dependent,’ feel ‘entitled’ Is Romney correct?
Nearly half (49.1 percent) of the American population lives in households that received some form of government benefit in the first quarter of 2012, the Wall Street Journal reported last month, citing US Census data.
This number has grown steadily since 1983, when it was 30 percent, and has jumped drastically since the start of the recession, rising 5 percentage points in only three years.
Programs such as Medicaid, Medicare, unemployment benefits and food stamps are a last resort for the millions of families in the United States that live on the edge of poverty. While the US poverty rate is 16 percent, according to the Census Bureau, nearly half of the population is considered “low income,” with incomes less than twice the official poverty level. (That threshold—$22,350 for a family of four—is absurdly low).
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Elaine Magliacane 2012/09/18 13:21:31YES






















This government has been invaded by corporatists and it started with Reagan and Obama is part of it all too. BUT ---- you are a complete idiot to think that Mittens can turn it around.
Obama might be big government (though he's not), but Mittens is a corporatist, who has no respect for the US worker.
Why do you hate your government so much?
http://www.democracycorps.com...
...yeah, right.
Deal.
http://fivethirtyeight.blogs....
...yeah, right.
...and I certainly wouldn't denigrate those who've lacked the opportunities that have fallen my way.
My question was do you aspire to gain wealth and success through your career ?
I certainly wouldn't define "success" as the mere attainment of wealth.
You still didn't answer the question----why?
http://www.sodahead.com/unite...
Let me get this straight, you do not want to ever get a raise or become wealthy. Did you ever turn down a raise?
My answer: "My life's aspirations are not centered on the mere attainment of wealth."
...it's just that simple.
I say you are full of crap
My answer: "My life's aspirations are not centered on the mere attainment of wealth."
...it's just that simple.
That's a drastic distortion of the planned changes to Temporary Assistance to Needy Families. By granting waivers to states, the Obama administration is seeking to make welfare-to-work efforts more successful, not end them. What’s more, the waivers would apply to individually evaluated pilot programs -- HHS is not proposing a blanket, national change to welfare law.
The ad tries to connect the dots to reach this zinger: "They just send you your welfare check." The HHS memo in no way advocates that practice. In fact, it says the new policy is "designed to improve employment outcomes for needy families."
The ad’s claim is not accurate, and it inflames old resentments about able-bodied adults sitting around collecting public assistance. Pants on Fire!" PolitiFact.com
I'm talking about when he waived work requirements for foodstamps through the stimulus, and the numbers of dependants swelled.
"A new government study found that the number of able-bodied adults on food stamps nearly doubled after Washington used the stimulus law to lift a key work requirement."