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Friday, January 11, 2013

What Percentage Of Romney Voters Have Received Entitlement Benefits?



"In the 2012 presidential election, 53 percent of people who said they voted for Mitt Romney have received entitlement benefits in their lifetime. For President Obama, the number was 59 percent." Christian Science Monitor - http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/2012/1231/How-much-do-you-know-about-US-entitlement-programs-Take-our-quiz/Percentage-of-US-recipients?google_editors_picks=true

39% of people who make over $100,000.00 a year have received entitlement benefits. 

The average number of monthly welfare recipients reached 4.6 million in 2011, benefiting an average of 1.9 million families. 4.6 million is 1.47% of the population.

The federal government and states paid a combined total of $117.2 billion for unemployment benefits in 2011.

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In related vein...

In recent time, the (mostly) Republican military-industrial complex (on the receiving end of massive corporate welfare payments) fought a bogus war in Iraq whose outcome was to replace a secular dictator with fervent Islamic dictator, simultaneously delivering Iraq to Iran's sphere of influence.  

In Afghanistan, the military-industrial complex has support President Hamid Karzai who yesterday accused the United States of colluding with The Taliban. "A day after two Taliban bombings killed 17 people, Karzai accused the United States and the Taliban of colluding to convince Afghans that foreign forces were needed beyond 2014, when NATO is set to wrap up its combat mission and most troops withdraw." Those bombs that went off in Kabul and Khost were not a show of force to America. They were in service of America. It was in the service of the 2014 slogan to warn us if they (Americans) are not here then Taliban will come," Karzai said in a speech. "In fact those bombs, set off yesterday in the name of the Taliban, were in the service of Americans to keep foreigners longer in Afghanistan.” http://worldnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/03/10/17257872-karzai-accuses-us-and-taliban-of-conspiring-to-keep-troops-in-afghanistan?lite

Ever since Vietnam, the American war machine has been counterproductive astronomically cost.  

As Marshall McLuhan observed: “To the spoils belongs the victor.”



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