"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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