Echoes of TSBTS

[Yisroel Markov]

Maureen spoke in To Sail Beyond the Sunset:

"I remember my shock the first time the government collected a
trillion dollars in taxes. Fortunaly, most of it was wasted."

Now, not to say it was all a waste, but -
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Report: Welfare government’s single largest budget item in FY 2011 at
approx. $1.03 trillion

The government spent approximately $1.03 trillion on 83 means-tested
federal welfare programs in fiscal year 2011 alone — a price tag that
makes welfare that year the government’s largest expenditure... [This
excludes Social Security and Medicare but does include Medicaid.]

Read more:
http://dailycaller.com/2012/10/18/report-welfare-governments-single-largest-budget-item-in-fy-2011-at-approx-1-03-trillion/#ixzz29kcCuJJl
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Yisroel "Godwrestler Warriorson" Markov - Boston, MA Member
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"Judge, and be prepared to be judged" -- Ayn Rand

[a425couple]

"Yisroel Markov" <ey.m...@MUNGiname.com> wrote in message...

> Maureen spoke in To Sail Beyond the Sunset:
>
> "I remember my shock the first time the government collected a
> trillion dollars in taxes. Fortunaly, most of it was wasted."
>
> Now, not to say it was all a waste, but -
> -----------------------------------------
> Report: Welfare government's single largest budget item in FY 2011 at
> approx. $1.03 trillion
>
> The government spent approximately $1.03 trillion on 83 means-tested

> federal welfare programs in fiscal year 2011 alone - a price tag that

> makes welfare that year the government's largest expenditure... [This
> excludes Social Security and Medicare but does include Medicaid.]
>
> Read more:
> http://dailycaller.com/2012/10/18/report-welfare-governments-single-largest-budget-item-in-fy-2011-at-approx-1-03-trillion/#ixzz29kcCuJJl
> --
> Yisroel "Godwrestler Warriorson" Markov - Boston, MA Member
> www.reason.com -- for a sober analysis of the world DNRC
> --------------------------------------------------------------------
> "Judge, and be prepared to be judged" -- Ayn Rand

Yes. Certainly a significant amount, and trend.
And Heinlein certainly seemed to have an opinion on it.

[tian]

On 10/22/2012 05:53 AM, Yisroel Markov wrote:
> Maureen spoke in To Sail Beyond the Sunset:
>
> "I remember my shock the first time the government collected a
> trillion dollars in taxes. Fortunaly, most of it was wasted."
>
> Now, not to say it was all a waste, but -
> -----------------------------------------
> Report: Welfare government’s single largest budget item in FY 2011 at
> approx. $1.03 trillion
>

I see this just minutes after I add a picture a red $16 trillion federal
debt to my website. What a coincidence!

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Tian
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[Puppet_Sock]

Re: A trillion to welfare.

I have a rule, though it probably needs some inflation
adjustment.

If you took one million $ and invested it in conservative
"blue chip" type investments, you could live quite well.
Maybe this needs to be inflation bumped to two million
these days to get the "oomph" I want from the comparison.

So, if something is going to cost one (two?) million $,
it had better be worth one person's entire life, because
one person could have their entire life from it.

So, one year's worth of welfare, a trillion $, is one (half?)
million people's entire lives. Just as surely as if we had
marched them all off to disintigration booths.

Is it worth it? Could we find better uses for those lives?
Could we find better ways to have the people on welfare
not starve or freeze?
Socks