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These 11 States now have More People on Welfare than they do employed: California, New Mexico, Mississippi, Alabama, Illinois, Kentucky, Ohio, New York, Maine, South Carolina

Last month, the Senate Budget Committee reports that in fiscal year 2012, between food stamps, housing support, child care, Medicaid and other benefits, the average U.S. Household below the poverty line received $168.00 a day in government support.

What's the problem with that much support? Well, the median household income in America is just over $50,000. That averages out to $137.13 a day.

To put it another way, being on welfare now pays the equivalent of $30.00 an hour for 40 hour week, while the average job pays $20.00 an hour.

Furthermore: There are actually two messages here. The first is very interesting, but the second is absolutely astounding - and explains a lot.

   

A recent "Investor's Business Daily" article provided very interesting statistics from a survey by the United Nations International Health Organization.

Percentage (%) of men and women who survived a cancer five years after diagnosis: U.S. 65%, England 46%, Canada 42%

% of patients diagnosed with diabetes -received treatment within 6 months: U.S. 93%, England 15%, Canada 43%

% of seniors needing hip replacement who received it within six months: U.S. 90%, England 15%, Canada 43%

% referred to a medical specialist who see one within one month: U.S. 77%, England 40%, Canada 43%

Number of MRI scanners (a prime diagnostic tool) per million people: U.S. 71, England 14, Canada 18

% of seniors (65+), with low income, who are in "excellent health": U.S. 12%, England 2%, Canada 6%

National Health Insurance?

U.S. NO, England YES, Canada YES

The percentage of each past president's cabinet, who had   worked in the private business sector prior to their appointment to the cabinet. You know what the private business sector is; a real-life business...not a government job.  Here are the percentages:

    38%   T. Roosevelt

    40%   Taft

    52%   Wilson

    49%   Harding

    48%   Coolidge

    42%   Hoover

    50%   F.D. Roosevelt

    50%   Truman

    57%   Eisenhower

    30%   Kennedy

    47%   Johnson

    53%   Nixon

    42%   Ford

    32%   Carter

    56%   Reagan

    51%   GH Bush

    39%   Clinton

    55%   GW Bush

       8%   Obama

This helps explain the incompetence of this administration: ONLY 8% of them...have ever worked in private business! That's right!  Only eight percent, the least by far of the last 19 presidents!

And these people are trying to tell our big corporations how to run their business? How can the president of a major nation and society, the one with the most successful economic system in world history, stand and talk about business when he's never worked for one? Or about jobs when he has never really had one? And, when it's the same for 92% of his senior staff and closest advisers?

They've spent most of their time in academia, government, and/or non-profit jobs. Or...  As "community organizers."

"Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance and the gospel of envy. Its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery" -- Winston Churchill

Source: Dick Anderson