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Half Of All Americans Live With Someone Dependent On Government Benefits
More Americans than ever before are tapping government benefits. As WSJ reports, nearly half of Americans, 49.5%, lived in a household where at least one person was receiving some type of government benefit. Over the last few years, the number has mostly risen from more people turning to programs designed to help the poor, such as food stamps, Medicaid (the health-insurance program for the poor and disabled) and the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program, commonly known as welfare. Welcome to Cloward-Piven's socialist America... or as some might say "Mission Accomplished."
As we discussed previously, this may not be entirely by accident...
In the mid-sixties at the height of the “social revolution” the line between democratic benevolence and outright communism became rather blurry. The Democratic Party, which controlled the presidency and both houses of Congress, was used as the springboard by social engineers to introduce a new era of welfare initiatives enacted in the name of “defending the poor”, also known as the “Great Society Programs”. These initiatives, however, were driven by far more subversive and extreme motivations, and have been expanded on by every presidency since, Republican and Democrat alike.
At Columbia University, sociologist professors Richard Cloward and Francis Fox Piven introduced a political strategy in 1966 in an article entitled 'The Weight Of The Poor: A Strategy To End Poverty'. This article outlined a plan that they believed would eventually lead to the total transmutation of America into a full-fledged centralized welfare state (in other words, a collectivist enclave). The spearpoint of the Cloward-Piven strategy involved nothing less than economic sabotage against the U.S.
Theoretically, according to the doctrine, a condition of overwhelming tension and strain could be engineered through the overloading of American welfare rolls, thereby smothering the entitlement program structure at the state and local level. The implosion of welfare benefits would facilitate a massive spike in poverty and desperation, creating a financial crisis that would lead to an even greater cycle of demand for a fully socialized system.
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For those naïve enough to assume that Cloward-Piven is just a well intentioned activist method, it is important to understand that even if that were so, the effect of the Cloward-Piven Strategy will never achieve the goal its creators claimed to support. In my view, it is probable that they never really intended for it to produce wealth equality or an increased quality of life.
The tactic can only decrease wealth security by making all citizens equally destitute. As we have seen in numerous socialist and communist experiments over the past century, economic harmonization never creates wealth or prosperity, it only siphons wealth from one area and redistributes it to others, evaporating much of it as it is squeezed through the grinding gears of the establishment machine. Socialism, in its very essence, elevates government to the role of all-pervasive parent, and casts the citizenry down into the role of dependent sniveling infant. Even in its most righteous form, Cloward-Piven seeks to make infants of us all, whether we like it or not.
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Mission Accomplished...?
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Mass dependency. The best idea with which to bring down an unjust, violent, and oppresive system.
We have a 49.5% surplus people problem. The other problem is that the 49.5% provide JIT inventory, just like in Furguson, for starters.
109 Million on "welfare". Hmmm, there were 55 million households headed by a full time worker in 1965. The Great Society didn't end poverty, it just bred more people into it.
In nature, animals possess behaviors of 'my' property and 'our' property, but not 'YOUR' property.
Well, the liberals and most conservatives share the same behaviors.
The welfare states.
UWSA.
Didnt Warren Buffet get a taxpayer bailout in 2009?
So yes even the super wealthy have their hands out too.
I sense a growing trend here. Is this the part about voting yourself a piece of the cake and eating it too?
The moar I read, the moar I want to leave IT, and become a goat herder....or something which does not rely on on the centralized power grid, and government regulation, in order to "produce"
I'd go so far as to say get out of town at least. Might as well enjoy the grid while it's there. Small plot farmland is cheap. Rig up an RV with solar and you've got about as good a shtf plan as you can get on the cheap.
Have been considering exactly this. Mobility (vote with your feet) is key IMO....assuming law and order can survive what is to come. Perhaps on BLM land.
I like the idea of arable land in the mix. Of course, if you own it, gubmint will merely give somebody else the right to take it, by force. Get use to it.
Oh yeah...keep junking away you Junk-fucking-bot-gummint bytchez! Ask me, and I will tell you where I live. Come get some.
Do you have a stalker or something?
Its really cool.
Kinda like living rent free in someones head and can't be evicted ;-)
Why? Is your Mom subject to a restraining order?
Beyond your Ad Hom....what are you really trying to say?
I think he's talking about your downvotes as you mentioned the bots.
We have a lot more trolls about lately, giving red down arrows out like they mean something somehow.
lol...I am ube sensitive today. Been one of those weeks.
........ummmmm you live @ 1600 Pennsylvania too?
Watch America Unplugged on the Sportsman Channel. It has case studies of people who bug out and live off the grid. I love it.
Watch America Unplugged on the Sportsman Channel. It has case studies of people who bug out and live off the grid. I love it.
Mission Accomplished...?
Not quite yet.
But this is a feature, not a bug.
Yes, it is a feature, not a bug.
But I will comment on someone who pointed out "the feature":
"There are 47 percent of the people who will vote for the president no matter what," ___left intentially blank___"All right, there are 47 percent who are with him, who are dependent upon government, who believe that they are victims, who believe the government has a responsibility to care for them, who believe that they are entitled to health care, to food, to housing, to you-name-it. That that's an entitlement. And the government should give it to them. And they will vote for this president no matter what…These are people who pay no income tax."
No, it wasn't de Tocqueville but it is "Democracy in America" ;-)
Everybody loves the socialism they are living off of. I know I do. The problem is nobody wants their own scam cut first. I know I don't.
Siamese twin talking to his brother: If you would just get a fucking job....
Everyone on the Dimon and Blankfien family would be in that group.
There will be a brief, shining moment when all Americans are dependent on government, and our sub-moronic leaders will beam with contentment. Probably the better part of a whole day. Then the entire charade will come crashing down like a hundred thousand Hindenburgs, and the eaters will be in the streets.
Hey, it works for North Korea.
Doesn't it?
WTF. Let's just get the needle to 51% so the system will sink fast.
Lowest Common Denominator. Only way to create an "equal" society.
Bankrupt everybody (except the 0.00001%, of course).
The problem is they are half assing this whole thing and that is why there is so much inequality and society is breaking down. We need to scrap all the various entitlements and just send a check out to each american adult, working or not, for about 4k per month. That should make everyone relatively content and make the unstoppable evolution to automation an easier transition. If people want to work on top of that, good for them. Go get em.
What if we ask people in certain categories to consider a patriotic suicide? For instance all people who own or have ever owned a PT Cruiser. I am sure there are other categories we can think of that would be beneficial to society. How about people who say "pitcher" when them mean "picture" or "punkin" instead of "pumpkin"?
I'm not ruling it out I just have to admit I had not considered that. We could probably work it in.
The ones who say 'fer' for 'for, and 'ta' for 'to'.
I believe you're "axing" too much of your swarthy complextioned brethen. They will never ax to be axed!
Ha Ha!
I'll never forget that during the Rodney King riots/looting a woman on the streets was asked what they wanted.
She replied, "we wants access to the dollar". I believe that is also what bankrobbers and banksters want too. Work, productivity, self-discipline-well that's outside their cognitive awareness. They don't understand the downside of entropy.
That probably does make the most sense. The (R)etards and (D)umbasses would be against it for various reason tho.
With one exception:
Large farmers (agribusinesses) have lost their direct payment (deficiency payment) on cotton, rice, soybeans, wheat, and corn.
The amount of this largess reached into the tens of billions of dollars a year.
To their credit, no tractorcades, no burning of tires and blocking of roads like in France.
A prime example of socialism, when you no longer have the votes or the cash, you get cut loose.
Watch the news by year's end about farm banckruptcies.
+1000. I am reading about this in Farm Credit. Chinese lining up to buy the repo'd equipment.
this is, of course, the natural outcome of farmers lying down with the serpent, as much as the medical industry horseshit is the result of the AMA orginally lying down with the same fucking serpent around the turn of the 20th century....and Georgie Washington lying down with whiskey producers....but hey...he could not tell a lie to his father about some fucking Cherry Tree. Nevermind that daddy died when Georgie was very young.
Or getting "cross-pollinated" and dragged through the "justice system" against K-Street and the soups even.
The Reagan revolution! The percentage increase under Reagan was worse. Then there was the Bush increase, again higher in percentage terms. Damn socialist Republicans.
Why aren't all the people living off of Big-Ag, Big-MIC, Big-Road, Big-Water, Big-Airport, Big-Ed, Big-Energy, Big-FIN, Big-AntiDrug, and Big-PoliceState counted as "dependent on government benefits". And what about Big-StateGov? Hell, you include all of that, what percentage is living off the government?
(Disclaimer: personally living off of, not one, not TWO, BUT THREE Big-Gov scams. And, in a few years I'm expecting to get my unlimited hip-replacement surgeries too!)
We have 100 million people too many. Dead weight.
Sounds like closer to 170 million.
The problem is hundreds of millions people who want to run everybody else's lives.
Especially when it comes to money.
Sorry. It's 100%, to infinite precision. Everybody receives "a government benefit". Without exception.
Looks like a chart of the FEDs balance sheet. Coincidence?
The fascist FED can't help it. They are like pedophiles. They won't stop until they are locked up.
Consciousness goes to sleep but when it wakes up look out.
This is what happens when the Oligarchs get too greedy and evicerate Import Duties, Taxes, and Regs protecting our Worker and Consumer.
Pretty soon they'll get to the reaping part.
30+years of Reganomics and job outsourcing has forced people to turn to government for survival.
Re: job outsourcing
Yeah... I remember, when I was a young male, laughing at the Textile workers union ads of "look for the union label". Get a real job you worthless uneducated LOSERS, survival of the fittest LOSERS, get an education LOSERS. We've got the society we have because the US was just mean enough to get exactly what it wanted (and deserved).
Oh well...
Are social security/medicare among these 'government benefits'?
SS and medicare are also commonly associated with additional associated 'government benefits'.
If this is the case, then baby boomer demographics easily explains this rising depencency curve, since even the very wealthy participate
in these 'government benefit' programs and it is not at all unusual to have a family 'household member' in this age group.
Exactly. Many of these benefits also are "earned." Medicare, social security, etc. Typical ZH exageration.
I would say it's closer to 100% depending on how you look at things. If you think about it, every biz owner has a subsity, called a deduction, that "robs" the free-shiite army of their .gov confiscated fiat. Governement workers call this deduction of biz expansion a "cost". Similarly, if a thief gets a bullet for stealing from some person directly vs via .gov, the cost of their biz could be death.
The only "rationalization" of these programs in my lifetime was by a democrat, Clinton, and that is the same president that presided over the reversal of financial regulation... This same period saw the exodus of Manufacturing jobs from 1990 and the decline of the standard of living for the vast majority of Americans and the greatest concentration of wealth by the few in our history. So, could the US government create any kind of collective state even if it wanted to? Hell no. The US government is like a developing country: All the ambitious people in the US work in private companies leaving the idiots to run the government, not unlike the most ambitious leave many nations around the world under the strong arm of imperialism, leaving the inbred idiots to run the countries... Anyone who thinks the US or it's government looks in any way like some "socialist" system is completely ignorant of the reality of how incompetent US government really is...
Destroy the empire from inside.
are the banksters & the politics included in the figures ?
because it's about useless fuckers isn't it ?
& ok it's only 0.1% but in $ they cost much much more than those 49.5%.
in fact if the fuckers would stop stealing money, there wouldn't be any more poor people, not only in us but just everywhere in the world...