The Patriot Post® · Disproportional Gov't Dependence

Terence Jeffrey: “Those who live in this nation’s richest county and those who live its poorest have an important thing in common: a disproportionate dependence on government. … At the end of last year, the Census Bureau released two lists: The 30 counties with the highest median household incomes in 2012 and the 30 with the lowest. The independent City of Falls Church, Va., – which the Census Bureau treats as a county – was the nation’s wealthiest. Its median household income was $121,250. Wilcox County, Ala., was the poorest. Its median household income was $22,126. … In both places, government employed people out of proportion to the national rate of 14.9 percent. In Falls Church, a suburb less than 10 miles south of Washington, D.C., 31.3 percent of the people with jobs worked for government. In Wilcox County, it was 25.4 percent. … The Census Bureau estimated that 11.4 percent of Americans 16 or older got food stamps in 2008-2012. In Falls Church, it was 2.2 percent, but in Wilcox County it was 28.9 percent. … In Wilcox County, 28.8 percent of those 25 or older had not graduated from high school. In Falls Church, it was 3.7 percent. In Falls Church, 72.8 percent had a bachelor’s degree or higher. In Wilcox County, it was 11.1 percent. In Falls Church, 53.1 percent of households were married-couple families, and 7.8 percent were families headed by a woman with no husband present. In Wilcox County, 34.7 percent of the households were married-couple families and 30.5 percent were headed by a woman with no husband present. … Maybe it is time for the government to start getting out of the education business and the dependency business.”