A strange amalgam of interests, accelerated by the Administration of President Barack Obama’s constituency-expanding entitlement policies, are driving a surge in the predominant role that welfare programs continue to play in accounting for an ever-increasing chunk of the Federal budget. Welfare spending programs — not including Social Security, Medicare and unemployment — have come to comprise one-sixth of the Federal budget, according to a Forbes report. That’s one-sixth — without taking into account the money the government throws at the Medicare mammoth.
As it turns out, the war on poverty is a lucrative business for special corporate interests wise to the fact that there’s money to be made in helping the welfare state extend its reach — in expanding the definition of “poverty,” as the Obama Administration has done, in order to catch more Americans in its entitlement dragnet……To Read More….
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