In addition to gov employees and their households, if all of the voters who are dependent on food stamps and other subsidies are factored in too, the percentage is probably already at or above 50%. That is why America is really a Republic and not simply a Democracy -- to prevent the takeover of our country by a majority of special interest proponents. We are not supposed to be in a tug-of-war competition with their expansive government preferences beyond the scope of the Constitution or have to outnumber their populations either.
This is not an example of a solution to reign in big government and its special interests, imo -- just reshuffle them:
MANCHESTER, N.H. — Republican presidential contender Newt Gingrich on Monday proposed allowing younger workers still decades away from retirement to bypass Social Security and instead choose private investment accounts that would be subject to stock market gyrations.
The former House speaker, who has risen in the polls, would allow younger workers to take their share of the payroll tax that funds Social Security and put it in a private account.
Employers would still pay their share of the tax, which would be used to pay benefits for current retirees. But it would create a funding shortfall that Gingrich brushed off.
"That gap is more than covered by the savings" that would come from giving states control of 185 social welfare programs, Gingrich told reporters after a speech that laid out broad concepts but lacked key details.
That might sound sensible on the surface but one of the key details omitted there is that State government is subcontracting out food stamp dependents to businesses and the only pay that those laborers recieve for their days of work is maybe as low as $30.00 a month worth of groceries -- far below minimum wage. This "volunteer worker" arrangement greatly impairs the job market, too, for people trying to find permanent employment -- which causes more such welfare dependencies. But what is the financial arrangement of the State Welfare Dept. with the businesses that are using food stamp recipients as non-payroll workers? Somehow, I think State government and its .gov employees are profiting from this slave labor enterprise and also by impairing the job market to make more slave laborers.
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