The Patriot Post® · Welfare Nation

Terence Jeffrey: “86,429,000. That is the number of Americans who in 2012 got up every morning and went to work -– in the private sector –- and did it week after week after week. These are the people who built America, and these are the people who can sustain it as a free country. The liberal media has not made them famous like the polar bear, but they are truly a threatened species. It is not a rancher with a few hundred head of cattle that is attacking their habitat, nor an energy company developing a fossil fuel. It is big government and its primary weapon – an ever-expanding welfare state. … All told … there were 151,014,000 who ‘received benefits from one or more programs’ in the fourth quarter of 2011. Subtract the 3,212,000 veterans, who served their country in the most profound way possible, and that leaves 147,802,000 non-veteran benefit takers. … As more baby boomers retire, and as Obamacare comes fully online … the number of takers will inevitably expand. And the number of full-time private-sector workers might also contract. Eventually, there will be too few carrying too many, and America will break.”