![The Senate Budget Committee Republican staff under Ranking Member Jeff Sessions [R-AL] on Wednesday released this depressing chart:](http://thestoryofliberty.files.wordpress.com/2012/08/serve-620x450.jpg?w=90&h=90&crop=1)
The Senate Budget Committee Republican staff under Ranking Member Jeff Sessions [R-AL] on Wednesday released this depressing chart:
New research from Ranking Member of the Senate Budget Committee Jeff Sessions (R-AL) reveals that this reality may already be here, with more than 107 million Americans on some form of means-tested government welfare.
Add to that 46 million seniors collecting Medicare (subtracting out about 10 million on Supplemental Security Income, Medicaid, and other senior-eligible programs already included in Sessions’ means-tested chart) and 22 million government employees at the federal, state, and local level — and suddenly, over 165 million people, a clear majority of the 308 million Americans counted by the U.S. Census Bureau in 2010, are at least partially dependents of the state.
“When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.”
-Benjamin Franklin
“To take from one, because it is thought his own industry and that of his fathers has acquired too much, in order to spare to others, who, or whose fathers, have not exercised equal industry and skill, is to violate arbitrarily the first principle of association, the guarantee to everyone the free exercise of his industry and the fruits acquired by it.”
-Thomas Jefferson, letter to Joseph Milligan, April 6, 1816
Learn more about economic Liberty: http://thestoryofliberty.intuitwebsites.com/Economic-Liberty-Menu.html?_=1344522169062#.UCPQp52PUU4
Read more:
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/this-chart-showing-welfare-dependency-will-ruin-your-day/
http://www.census.gov/compendia/statab/2012/tables/12s0007.pdf
John Featherstone
Marshall Foster- World History Institute
Jennifer Featherstone
