Tuesday, October 30, 2012
"Govt spent $1.028 trillion on welfare in FY 2011"
This is money for which there were NO contributions, coming only from taxpayers.
Unfortunately, it's hard to imagine those elected actually doing something about it...
At DailyCaller.com, Caroline May recently called attention to these BIG numbers:
"The total sum taxpayers spent on federal welfare programs was derived from a new Congressional Research Service (CRS) report on federal welfare spending — which topped out at $745.84 billion for fiscal year 2011 — combined with an analysis from the Republican Senate Budget Committee staff of state spending on federal welfare programs (based on 'The Oxford Handbook of State and Local Government Finance'), which reached $282.7 billion in fiscal year 2011.
The data excludes spending on Social Security, Medicare, means-tested health care for veterans without service-connected disabilities, and the means-tested veterans pension program."
