128 million Americans are now on government programmes.

A new Heritage study shows:

The number of people receiving benefits from the federal government in the United States has grown from under 94 million people in 2000 to more than 128 million people in 2011. That means that 41.3 percent of the US population is now on a federal government program.The number of people receiving benefits from the federal government in the United States has grown from under 94 million people in 2000 to more than 128 million people in 2011. That means that 41.3 percent of the US population is now on a federal government program.

In 2010 70% of federal spending went to "dependence-creating programmes". That was in 2010. Today?

This cannot be sustained.
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/nilega...lds-superpower/

Related story:

New data show 1 in 4 children on food stamps in FY 2011

The USDA’s “Characteristics of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Households: Fiscal Year 2011” shows that in 2011, 19.9 million children, or people under 18, received food stamp benefits.

The Census estimates there were 73.9 million children living in the United States in 2011, meaning that 26.9 percent of children, or approximately one in four, were on food stamps in 2011.
http://dailycaller.com/2013/01/09/new-da...mps-in-fy-2011/

The numbers are mind numbing !!

That was numbers for 2011. It got worse last year.

We're not going to make it, are we?

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We're not going to make it, are we?

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We're not going to make it, are we?

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We've already changed into something else. We may be able to help guide our direction, but, no, we aren't the same country we were...oh, even 10 years ago.

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