Last month, the Senate Budget Committee reported that in fiscal year 2011, between food stamps, housing support, child care, Medicaid, and other benefits, the average U.S. household below the poverty line [and on welfare] received $168.00 a day in government support.
What's the problem with that much support? Well, the median household income in America is just over $50,000.00 per year which averages out to $137.13 a day. Which means that a person on welfare actually gets $30.87 more per day than a person who works.
To put it another way, being on welfare today pays the equivalent of $30.00 an hour for a 40-hour week, while the average worker is paid $25.00 an hour for a 40-hour week Additionally, since the person who works has to pay taxes also, his actual pay drops to $21.00 an hour. It is no wonder that welfare is now the biggest part of the budget, more than Social Security or defense. And why would anyone want to get off welfare when working means being paid $9.00 an hour less?
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