{"id":22537,"date":"2011-03-09T09:57:43","date_gmt":"2011-03-09T13:57:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=22537"},"modified":"2011-03-09T09:58:30","modified_gmt":"2011-03-09T13:58:30","slug":"government-handout-benefits-are-13-of-expenditures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=22537","title":{"rendered":"Government handouts are 1\/3 of US salaries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cortillaen sends us a link from the UK&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-1364450\/US-welfare-nation-Government-handouts-make-ONE-THIRD-salaries.html\">Daily Mail <\/a>which reports that one-third of US salaries are the result of government handouts;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The payouts \u2013 including Social Security, Medicare and unemployment insurance \u2013 are placing an increasing burden on the state at a time it is trying to dig itself out from a mountain of debt.<\/p>\n<p>And economists fear the toll on taxpayers will only increase further if quick action isn\u2019t taken before the majority of baby boomers reach retirement age.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>MSNBC writes;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Social welfare benefits have increased by $514 billion over the last two years, according to TrimTabs figures, in part because of measures implemented to fight the financial crisis. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yeah, but both sides of the budget battle would prefer to cut veterans&#8217; pay and benefits instead of hacking away at what&#8217;s really dangerous for the economy. Of course, that&#8217;s because veterans squeal less, and there are more welfare voters than veteran voters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cortillaen sends us a link from the UK&#8217;s Daily Mail which reports that one-third of US &hellip; <a title=\"Government handouts are 1\/3 of US salaries\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=22537\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Government handouts are 1\/3 of US salaries<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[86,118],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-veteran-health-care","category-veterans-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22537\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}