How almost half of U.S. population lives in a household that receives state benefits

How almost half of U.S. population lives in a household that receives state benefits. This reminds us of that old adage – why buy the cow when you can get the milk for free?

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  • Olivia must be one of those rats that keep breeding. The Bible says if you don't work you don't eat

    • I get the impression she works for some sort of progressive cause group & that posting here may be part of her job. Cass Sunstein talked about doing just that a while ago.

      • That's the only thing that makes sense to me, someone that has to respond and say something because it's her job, because how could anyone really be as stupid as she sounds. But then again she's a liberal.

  • If you're dependent on the government for your income, your food stamps and your medical care you're not likely to vote against the government that provides those benefits. That's why the current regime is getting as many people as possible on the benefits from Obama's "stash". You can't buy love but you can buy votes.

    • If you’re dependent on the government for your income, your food stamps and your medical care you’re not likely to vote against the government that provides those benefits.
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      Trust a rabid teabagger to assume that everyone's political affiliation is motivated purely by material self-interest. You believe that because that's what motivates YOU, don't you?

      In fact, most who vote for strong (not necessarily lavish) government social programs do so because they realize that it's a more cost-effective way to keep a nation healthy and productive, than simply ignoring the problem until it becomes a crisis, and than scrambling madly around trying to do damage control.

      • @ Lampoooonia: "Trust a rabid teabagger to assume that everyone’s political affiliation is motivated purely by material self-interest. You believe that because that’s what motivates YOU, don’t you?"

        What motivates you, miss high britches? Ya know, you come on in here throwin your insults round like jarts (never makin the circle) what exactly would your dang beliefs be - other than some retarded philosophy that you yankin from some pamphlets and websites? What in tarnation makes you so all dang up on top of stuff that you have the way to do it and everybody else is just so dang stupid?

        Why you think you are so dang superior is way beyound me, ma'am - but I's just a dumb retard, right? Most of the crap you throw around is just plain dumb and ya ain't never got anything to back it up, cept your stupid mouth.

        why don't y'all just take your dang bu llshit somewhere else - ain't no customers here, No ma'am

        • Fred, a while back I read a lot of Olivia's stuff, and damn if it didn't ring a bell. We had a position open for a supervisor within a unit of the police department, Not a sworn position. I was on the interview panel. One of the people can in and had no friggin' common sense what soever but a masters degree in something like animal husbandry. She told us during the interview she understood the position was second in line to the Chief of police since the job description said: "reports to the chief of police" (or his designated supervisor) So she thought she was going to be a deputy Chief and actually asked if she got the office next to his. This was for the animal control supervisors position. This woman was book smart but had no common sense and NO comprehension. Sound like anyone you know and love? Yea Olivia reminds me of this Doofus. Every time we asked her a question during the interview she should answer, make a clicking sound with her mouth and sigh. We she left all of us were laughing so hard we almost cried. and then we make clicking noises and sighed a lot. Think of that when you see Olivia's name come up, she hears but does not understand, she sees but can not comprehend, so basically she is a waste of space.

      • Olivia:"In fact, most who vote for strong (not necessarily lavish) government social programs do so because they realize that it’s a more cost-effective way to keep a nation healthy and productive."
        Really? Go into any inner city and tell me that's the case. Most of those people are the ones voting for entitlement (Social) programs. And I gotta say, they really don't look to be the financially sound people I would trust with MY funds. And most of the inner cities don't really look like they are filled with healthy and productive people.

        • I work in several of those "Healthy and productive areas" You know the ones with shootings, murders, stabbings, rampant dope sales, robbing, rapes, gangs,all the civilized behavior that Liberals never acknowledge when they make statements like she did. The majority of these people are not trapped, they choose to live there and all they get is handouts and gobernment cheese and trust me, they know how to game the system.

          And yet they all love the goberment when it hands out free shit. I wonder if Olivia can explain o me how someone living in the ghetto can afford a plasma TV, A Cadillac SUV, an X-Box and all the other goodies, and then complain, and bitch and moan about being poor and not getting enough gobernment cheese? And the majority are seriously overweight. Yea liberals treat there supporters just swell, and they are brainwashed like Herman Cain said. They keep votin' democrap so they gets their free shit. Liberals like to keep their supporters dumbed down, doped up, well fed and give them toys to play with. I guess its cheaper than buying votes by handing out cash, cause you walk into a "healthy and productive" area with a lot of cash, your ass is gonna get robbed and/or shot numerous times by your supporters.

        • Olivia:”In fact, most who vote for strong (not necessarily lavish) government social programs do so because they realize that it’s a more cost-effective way to keep a nation healthy and productive.”

          OMG!!! How fucking stupid is she? There is NOTHING that the government does that is more cost effective than if it were done privately! Government exists to expand itself and gobble up all financial reserves so that it can distribute them. Too bad they are even worse than the United Way at getting money to the needy!

      • Listen you dried up old slut, you liberals using that teabagger term is old and ass backwards. The ranks of liberals are where most gays associate. For a long time I didn't even know what that meant until a liberal explained it. A fag dipping his nuts into the mouth of another fag. But that is a tactic of liberals, calling other people what you are.

      • Olivia:"Trust a rabid teabagger to assume that everyone's political affiliation is motivated purely by material self-interest."

        There you go with that homosexual slur again. I'm against gay marriage but I don't slur them. And how many times have you told us that we're voting against our own interests when we vote Republican? Isn't that "purely" a "material self-interest" argument?

      • Why its our favorite terrorist, Jihad Jane...Like Herpes she is all over IHTM.....Perhaps we all need to get vaccinated against stupid and she will go away.

      • People on welfare usually vote themselves bennefits by voting for Democrats. I would like to see a couple of things done to the recipient class...

        Drug test anyone of welfare.

        If you commit serious crimes while on welfare, you lose your welfare.

        EBT cards would go away, you would have to go to a central office, & pick up your food stamps.

        Finally, you would'nt be allowed to voted if you are on the gov't dime, but that 1 would never happen.

        ...gov't welfare programs have become a lifestyle. It has produced generation after generation after generation of human debris. It has become a rot on our society, & is destroying human capital.

    • If the US governement can´t pay anymore, they will be in the streets, it will be thousands of times worst than the 1992 Los Angeles riots.

    • No they won't, they'll go looking for other cows when they get tired of milking the same one over and over.

  • The elderly I have no problem with, but the ones that are allowed to breed like rats and we pay for the birth, feed them, house them and give them voucher cards, enough now. Start tieing tubes and snipping

    • At a past job, I had a coworker who really was the welfare queen stereotype come to life. She had 5 or 6 kids, all by different baby daddies, and was on multiple layers of government assistance. She admitted that she knew how to work the system, and she herself was on SSI for disability, as were at least one of her kids.

      She works for my current employer, as well (I work in a field that is a small world, and you keep running into the same people again and again). Not long after I started here, I ran into her at a gas station near work. She was driving a brand-new Dodge Charger. She'd admitted in the past that she pretty much just worked to have spending money.

      I ran into her recently, and she told me she was going to be out for a while to have surgery. Having a hysterectomy, she said. I bit my tongue and swallowed the impulse to ask if the state of Texas had sent her a thank-you card.

      • At a past job, I had a coworker who really was the welfare queen stereotype come to life. She had 5 or 6 kids, all by different baby daddies, and was on multiple layers of government assistance. She admitted that she knew how to work the system, and she herself was on SSI for disability, as were at least one of her kids.

        She works for my current employer, as well (I work in a field that is a small world, and you keep running into the same people again and again). Not long after I started here, I ran into her at a gas station near work. She was driving a brand-new Dodge Charger. She’d admitted in the past that she pretty much just worked to have spending money.

        I ran into her recently, and she told me she was going to be out for a while to have surgery. Having a hysterectomy, she said. I bit my tongue and swallowed the impulse to ask if the state of Texas had sent her a thank-you card.
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        Yeah, yeah, yeah. EVERY far right winger and his Aunt Fannie just happens to know someone who just happens to fit those popular stereotypes, even though the numbers never add up, and even though those who most often spout them seem to be completely unaware that welfare was reformed almost 16 years ago.

        Say, Noel, if you have all this evidence that this alleged coworker is abusing disability (odd how this woman can supposedly work for two different employers, take time off for surgery, be on SSDI AND collect a large paycheck simultaneously, isn' t it? Quite a multitasker!), why haven't you blown the whistle on her? Could it be because you're making it up as you go along? :D

        You people need to come up with some more plausible lies. The ones you've been spouting here lately are just ludicrous.

        • Olivia, get a grip. What ever "reform" was attempted 16 years ago did nothing but change the names of the programs. People are still managing to get assistance in several areas because the reform only applied to adult welfare recipients. Inmy state, they have NEVER had benefits. Families with children have no limit on aid, food stamps can be gotten for 40 years, since it is a nutritional assistance program, not welfare. Housing is just that. Housing. Not welfare. Medicaid is not welfare. GROW UP and relaize that youare dreaming about reformation. A zillion people are still on various forms of assistance, and the limit on welfare payments is no lnger in force. Somebody remind me which Governor just got attacked for cutting off welfare after 4 years? That was supposed to be in effect EVERYWHERE!

        • Poor Livvy, all she has left for her is to accuse others of lies.

          Hard day at the bedpan station, honey?

        • Olivia: "why haven’t you blown the whistle on her?"
          We haven't been brainwashed into obliviousness like our Liberal friends... Attackwatch.com!

        • A welfare queen could smack My Dear Sweet Olivia upside the head with a board, and she would still deny their existence.