Welfare Children Get 3.8 Cents of Each Welfare Dollar Collected

The primary function of the federal government today is to be a giant welfare agency.  Welfare as an industry is:

	12 times larger than agriculture
	24 times larger than mining.
	4 times larger than construction.
	10% larger than manufacturing.
	2.6 times larger than transportation.
	2.3 times larger than the retail trade.
	10% larger than finance and real estate.

Government agencies and bureaucracies which are not normally presented as welfare agencies are in fact mostly just that.   With its social engineering, the once-powerful US military is nothing more than a welfare agency for women and incompetents, though this analysis assumes that only one third of defense spending is welfare.  One third of the recipients of Social Security, an alleged retirement account, are neither retired nor contributors to it in the first place.  100% of government payments for health care, or medical, is welfare, and there is not a shred of evidence that this expenditure accomplished anything.   Many countries which spend half as much as we do for health care as a percent of GDP have 4 year longer life expectancies than we do.  Whatever benefits were accrued by federal housing were more than cancelled out by the mismanagement, drug abuse, crime, faulty construction, and broken families associated with such projects.

100% of Treasury expenditures, the payment on the public debt, are traceable directly to welfare, because this debt wouldn't exist if it weren't for welfare.  The National Science Foundation web page reads like an exclusive welfare club for women, with barely a concern for science.

The only tangible benefit to welfare recipients is the cash aid which is only 7.5 cents out of each tax dollar collected for welfare.  Of that, half is spent for drugs and alcohol, making the federal government the largest dope dealer in the country.  And not even the 3.8 cents which might finally get to a welfare child is known to have benefitted a child--it could just as easily have been used to purchase a gift for the child's mother's boyfriend because there is no accountability for that 3.8 cents.  The mother doesn't have to pay it back--it's the father who never received any of the money and who had even less say in how it's spent who is charged for paying it back.

Source:  US Census Bureau, Statistical Abstract of the United States: 2000, Tables No. 604 and 605.

Source:  US Bureau of Economic Analysis

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