From CNBC.com -Government payouts including Social Security, Medicare and unemployment insurance make up more than a third of total wages and salaries of the U.S. population, a record figure that will only increase if action isn’t taken before the majority of Baby Boomers enter retirement. Even as the economy has recovered, social welfare benefits make up 35 percent of wages and salaries this year, up from 21 percent in 2000 and 10 percent in 1960, according to TrimTabs Investment Research using Bureau of Economic Analysis data. “The U.S. economy has become alarmingly dependent on government stimulus,”
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The various payouts need to be separated. Those combining all these payouts are trying to scare those who receive SS and Medicare. Social Security and Medicare had pay-ins. Unemployment for the greater part did not. Welfare payouts generally had no pay in.
The Fifth Amendment of the Constitution for the United States REQUIRES explicitly that when the government takes private property, in this case tax dollars out of one's earnings from one's labor, for "public use" then the government must provide to the person whose dollars were taken just compensation. Just compensation means exactly that just, fair, proper. When the feds take money from one to pay into social security, the above mentioned clause sets in place an absolute requirement that the fed compensate the "victim" of the taking.
It is time we cut out foreign aid which is an unconstitutional use of the peoples'dollars. It is time we cut out disaster aid which is another unconstitutional use of the peoples' dollars. It is time to eliminate all individual welfare which is an unconstitutional use of the peoples' dollars.
The Congress has exactly three (3) valid areas in which to expend. Those areas are the debts of the United States, the common Defence (sic) of the United States, and the general Welfare of the United States. The United States is a political entity separate from We the People (no authority to pay individual debts or provide for the common defense or general welfare of "the people") and a separate entity from the States (no authority to pay the debts of or provide for the common defense of or the general welfare of an individual State). The government's expenditures must encompass the needs of United States at the Union level NOT at the individual level. How many individual welfares is equal to the general welfare? 1? 100? 1,000,000? ~310,000,000? How many State welfares is equal to the general welfare? 1? 10? 50? Even Ulysses S Grant understood this when he asked for line item veto so he could remove "bringing home the bacon" spending from Congressional budgets. The folks in DC are't supposed to bring home ANY money. The money is supposed to be spent for one of the three explicit grants of power and those grants require expenditures to apply Union wide.
If those we elect had simply followed the rules set out in the Constitution instead of abusing their positions of trust, driven by the greed of those at home who want money brought home, we would have very low government expentitures and low taxes. Those who earn the money and the state in which they live would then have the benefit of their labor.
If one is pro-welfare, remember the Chinese proverb: Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime. Welfare teaches nothing.
How do you teach a man to fish who has no arms and legs he cannot stand on?
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