The Republican side of the Senate Budget Committee created the chart below showing how welfare spending breaks down to a whopping $168.00 per day or $30.60 per hour for every household living in poverty in the US.
According to the Republican side of the Senate Budget Committee, welfare spending per day per household in poverty is $168, which is higher than the $137 median income per day. When broken down per hour, welfare spending per hour per household in poverty is $30.60, which is higher than the $25.03 median income per hour.
“Based on data from the Congressional Research Service, cumulative spending on means-tested federal welfare programs, if converted into cash, would equal $167.65 per day per household living below the poverty level,” writes the minority side of the Senate Budget Committee. “By comparison, the median household income in 2011 of $50,054 equals $137.13 per day. Additionally, spending on federal welfare benefits, if converted into cash payments, equals enough to provide $30.60 per hour, 40 hours per week, to each household living below poverty. The median household hourly wage is $25.03. After accounting for federal taxes, the median hourly wage drops to between $21.50 and $23.45, depending on a household’s deductions and filing status. State and local taxes further reduce the median household’s hourly earnings. By contrast, welfare benefits are not taxed.” (Read More)
Even worse, “the rate of entitlement growth per capita has been nearly twice as fast as per capita income growth for the last fifty years.”
And this should not piss me off???
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Yes it should. If you are a hard working American trying to support yourself and your family and you see this, you should be going ballistic.
The problem is we now reward people who fall into bad situations whether it was caused by them or not. The folks who get on the gravy train don’t want to get off and they vote to keep it. As the economy continues to climb at an anemic pace more people are going to get on the train and the politicians will keep them there to get the votes.
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[...] The Lonely Conservative provides a handy welfare spending chart [...]
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I could not agree more with my fellow readers Liberty or Banzai. I didn’t want to click the “read more” link. We’ve got a benefit driven majority that will do even more every cycle. They don’t care about equal “opportunity” any longer; there’s no motivation for it. Now it’s all about equal “outcome” and they’ll vote in progressives to make it so.
Until the entitlement crowd somehow has their income stream curtailed severely or terminated, there will be no stopping the economic race to the bottom. I could not agree more with my fellow readers Liberty or Banzai.
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That’s it, I am done working!!!!
Never mind, my wife is a welfare fraud investigator. She would just arrest me. I deservee it for hooging the remote control.
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Liberty, why does this piss you off?
Would it help to know that “welfare spending” includes healthcare via medicaid/medicare; but that “median income” does NOT include any health insurance that working people may have through work (at least until Obamacare is fully implemented).
Or that “welfare spending” includes the cost of employing everyone in the S.S. Administration; but that “median income” does NOT include the cost of a company’s HR dept.?
That “welfare spending” includes the overhead (lights, heat, pens, paper, computers, etc) for the SSA; but that “median income” does not include a portion of the overhead of the employer?
Employers SPEND more on employees than employees take home as “Income”.
Welfare of all sorts should be abolished entirely for reasons other than its cost.
If it’s the cost that pisses folks off; then why not just present the total annual welfare spending, and leave it at that.
What’s the point of comparing it to median “income” per person (or household)?
Well, the point is to get you pissed off at the recipients of welfare by making you think that they receive more than the average working man takes home.
That might well be true (though I doubt it); but this graph doesn’t show anything like it. Instead it compares apples & oranges in an attempt to get you pissed off at welfare recipients rather than at your Congressman.
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