NEW YORK (PNN) - December 26, 2012 - Amerika is rapidly becoming a nation of takers. An increasing number of Amerikans expect the government to take care of them from the cradle to the grave, and they expect the government to dig into the pockets of others in order to pay for it all. This philosophy can be very seductive, but what happens when the number of takers eventually outnumbers the number of producers?
In 11 different Fascist Police States of Amerika states, the number of government dependents exceeds the number of private sector workers. This list of states includes some of the biggest states in the country: Kalifornia, New York, Illinois, Ohio, Maine, Kentucky, South Carolina, Mississippi, Alabama, New Mexico and Hawaii. It is interesting to note that seven of those states were won by illegitimate dictator president Barack Obama on election night.
In Kalifornia, there are 139 "takers" for every 100 private sector workers. That is crazy! The Amerikan people have become absolutely addicted to government money, and it gets worse with each passing year. Entitlements accounted for 62% of all federal spending in fiscal year 2012. It would be one thing if we could afford all of this spending, but we simply cannot. We are drowning in debt, and we are stealing more than a hundred million more dollars from future generations with each passing hour. No bank robber in history can match that kind of theft.
Yes, we will always need a safety net. There are many people out there that simply cannot take care of themselves. We certainly don't want to see anyone sleeping in the streets or starving to death.
But if the number of people jumping on to the safety net continues to grow at the current pace, the net will break and it will not be available for any of us.
For example, the number of Amerikans on food stamps grew from about 17 million in 2000 to more than 47 million today. It nearly tripled in just 12 years.
What will happen if it nearly triples again over the next 12 years?
The federal government even has a website that guides people through the process of figuring out for which welfare programs they qualify.
Overall, the FPSA federal government runs nearly 80 different “means-tested welfare programs” and more than 100 million Amerikans are already enrolled in at least one of them; and that figure does not include those who only receive Social Security or Medicare.
Today, there are 56.76 million Amerikans on Social Security. To support all of those Amerikans on Social Security, there are only about 94.75 million full-time private sector workers, which means there are just 1.67 full-time private sector workers to support each Amerikan on Social Security.
The number of Amerikans on Medicare is expected to grow from 50.7 million in 2012 to 73.2 million in 2025.
In order to support this exploding entitlement system, we need a lot more Amerikans to be working good paying jobs; jobs that continue to be permanently shipped overseas.
We are even losing good jobs to our own prisoners. The Fascist Police States of Amerika has the largest prison population in the world by far, and the exploitation of that low wage labor pool has become a boom industry in fascist Amerika.
Meanwhile, there are millions of law-abiding Amerikans that cannot find jobs and cannot take care of their families. Poverty and dependence on the government are absolutely exploding. The middle class is being viciously shredded, and most Amerikans continue to applaud politicians from both parties that are responsible for it all.
Our economy is being gutted at the same time that the welfare state is experiencing unprecedented growth. Instead of giving us real answers, our "leaders" just continue to borrow, spend and print more money. We are about to hit the debt limit again, and the illegitimate Obama regime is saying that we should just do away with the debt limit permanently.
Most of our politicians don't seem to understand that they are systematically destroying our economy and the bright futures that our children and grandchildren were supposed to have.
According to Chris Cox and Bill Archer, two men who served on Bill Clinton's Bipartisan Commission on Entitlement and Tax Reform, there is no way in the world that we could raise taxes high enough to pay for all of the obligations that we are currently taking on. They say that even if we taxed all corporations and individuals at a 100% tax rate on all income over $66,193, it wouldn’t be nearly enough to fund the over $8 trillion per year in the growth of FPSA liabilities.
Our current economy is a debt-induced illusion, and we will soon be waking up to a tremendous amount of pain.
Are you ready?
