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   | thedailybell.com / By Staff Report / May 17, 2013 Gen X Has New Reason to Resent Boomers as Retirement Looks Bleak … Generation X, the unlucky cohort of Americans who became young adults during the boom years of the 1990s only to suffer a midlife bust, is facing bleak retirement prospects, according to a study. [...] goldmoney.com / By Alasdair Macleod / March 17, 2013 Many of us are aware of Professor Laurence Kotlikoff of Boston University’s calculation that the net present value of the US Government’s future liabilities rose by $11 trillion in fiscal 2012 to $222 trillion. These are principally welfare, healthcare and social security costs. This is admittedly [...] Image by William Banzai zerohedge.com / By George Washington / 03/13/2013 17:55 In previous installments, we’ve noted that we could more than offset the need for the “sequestration” budget cuts by doing any one or combination of the following: Ending massive subsidies to the giant banks Reducing fraud and waste [...] From cnbc.com (July 2009) The Biggest US Welfare States As the recession grinds on and people run out of unemployment benefits, the last safety net is the government’s Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program. Though benefits vary by state, TANF provides a maximum of 60 months of coverage throughout a [...] naturalnews.com / By Ethan A. Huff, staff writer / Tuesday, February 05, 2013 (NaturalNews) For at least the past 15 years, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has been actively trying to develop new ways to decrease fraud in the federal food stamp program, which currently covers nearly 50 million Americans and adds more than [...] eutimes.net / December 28, 2012 It seems that migration policies of a leading country in Europe, France, are seriously changing. The country is no longer able to hold back the crowd of migrants, many of whom do not want to integrate into the social and economic life of their new home country. The upcoming radical [...] wealthwire.com / By Brittany Stepniak / December 7th, 2012 Americans don’t seem to settle down at young ages anymore. Their careers and relationships tend to pull them all over the United States, but once people enter their 30s, they tend to start thinking about home ownership. That’s very good and well, so [...] zerohedge.com / By Tyler Durden / 11/30/2012 09:18 When no more money flows in, to fund outflows, then the jig is up for the pension fund ponzi. This, as evidenced by the ‘punching, kicking, and tearing at clothes’ that a Greek pension fund manager endured recently, is exactly what has begun in Greece. As Reuters [...] Today we face a dependency on government largesse for almost every need. Our liberties are restricted and government operates outside the rule of law, protecting and rewarding those who buy or coerce government into satisfying their demands. Here are a few examples: ¦Undeclared wars are commonplace. ¦Welfare for the rich and poor is considered [...] thenewamerican.com / by John Larabell / Wednesday, 31 October 2012 According to an October 16 memorandum prepared by the Congressional Research Service (CRS) for the Senate Budget Committee, the federal government spent $746 billion on means-tested welfare programs in 2011. As the U.S. Census Bureau notes, there were 16.8 million households living [...] market-ticker.org / by Karl Denninger / October 3, 2012 Here it is from Bloomberg (and others): Almost 2,400 people who received unemployment insurance in 2009 lived in households with annual incomes of $1 million or more, according to the Congressional Research Service. The report was released after about 1.1 million people exhausted [...] lewrockwell.com / by Laurence M Vance / September 27, 2012 Help Save the American Dream,” said the subject line of the e-mail I received from the Heritage Foundation and signed by its president, Edwin J. Feulner. By donating as little as $10, I could become a member of the foundation and get [...] foxnewsinsider.com / by Fox and Friends / September 21, 2012 The House voted Thursday to shoot down President Obama’s plan to bypass Congress and waive work requirements for welfare. The changes would allow people in certain states to collect welfare checks for things like bed rest, massage, motivational reading, and helping friends and family with [...] In this episode, Max Keiser and Stacy Herbert discuss boom boom sticks and squeaky wheels and ask whether spending on the military is more libertarian than spending on teaching prostitutes to drink responsibly. And they envision a post leveraged buyout America in which we open up Fort Knox and find only a printer. In [...] dollarvigilante.com / by Jeff Berwick / August 15, 2012 [Editor's Note: The following is a small excerpt from the August Issue of TDV which was released today, written by Jeff Berwick in "The Big Picture"] Today, the power of the state has corrupted society absolutely. This week, fund manager Bill Gross tweeted [...] zerohedge.com / by Tyler Durden on 07/27/2012 11:26 America’s transition into a welfare state continues, as May saw a new all time high number of American households, 22.3 million to be exact, enter technical poverty and collect foodstamps. At the individual level, 46.5 million Americans lived off foodstamps, [...] dailycaller.com / By Caroline May / Published: 6:42 PM 06/27/2012 While spending on the food stamp program has increased 100 percent under President Barack Obama, the government continues to push more Americans to enroll in the welfare program. The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) has embraced entire promotional campaigns designed to encourage eligible [...] newswithviews.com / By Frosty Wooldridge / June 4, 2012 California mutating into another country In this final part of Victor Davis Hanson’s assessment of California, he discovered, as I also witnessed, a complete ‘mutation’ of California from an American state to a linguistic, racial and religious polyglot—unable to function financially, educationally, lawfully [...] economicnoise.com / June 4, 2012 The title of the article tells why correcting the economic problem will be so difficult. Entitlements and welfare must be cut. Some families have lived on welfare for a generation or more. They believe it is a right to live at the expense of others and will not take kindly [...] Submitted by Tyler Durden on 04/19/2012 10:28 -0400
Submitted by James Miller from the Mises Institute of Canada Meet the Man Bankrupting the Eurozone (and Maybe the Rest of the World) No, it’s not Greece Prime Minister and bankster puppet Lucas Papadermos who serves his former masters at Goldman Sachs rather than [...] http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com Which lifestyle choice produces better results – being a hard working American or being a government parasite? Actually, when you look at the cold, hard numbers they may just surprise you. In America today, we deeply penalize hard work and we greatly reward government dependence. If you live in a very liberal area of [...] Submitted by Tyler Durden on 03/18/2012 13:47 -0400
We have long argued that at its core, modern society, at least on a mathematical basis – the one which ultimately trumps hopium every single time – is fatally flawed due to the existence, and implementation, of the concept of modern “welfare” – an idea [...] |
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