Thursday, February 23, 2012
"18 Staggering Charts On The Rise Of Government Dependence"
The charts posted with this article should leave you with no doubt as to where America is heading...
Gus Lubin recently published them at BusinessInsider.com:
"Americans are more dependent on the government than ever, according to the Heritage Foundation.
Heritage's index, which looks at government disbursements from health and welfare to farm subsidies, jumped 8.1 percent in 2011.
The share of Americans who pay no taxes rose to a record 49.5 percent.
A record 70.5 percent of government spending went to dependence programs."
