Uncle Sam weeps
Date: November 7th 2012
Uncle Sam weeps
The lesson we learn from the re-election of Barack Obama yesterday is that people who want money from the government outnumber those paying the tab and will vote for whichever guy offers them a raise, no matter how much the guy's past performance damaged the nation as a whole.
It’s a gloomy thought and it’s difficult to imagine the republic surviving this watershed moment.
Here’s some quick dirty arithmetic:
The population of the United States is 312 million with 15 million of them either federal government employees or full-time contractors of the federal government, 20 million of them state or municipal employees, 47 million of them on food stamps, 4.5 million of them on welfare, 2 million of them in prison, 5.5 million of them receiving unemployment compensation, 14 million of them receiving federal disability payments...(read the rest here: http://www.jpattitude.com/121107.php)
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