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zombie2_19_98@yahoo.com wrote in article
<6lpa27$81q$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>...
> 
> 
> I know a lot of people out there are not interested in facts but for
those of
> you who are...
> 
> Food Stamps:
> 
> Eligibility. The amount of food stamps an individual or household
receives
> depends upon the number of people in the household and on how much
monthly
> income is after certain amounts are deducted. The monthly net incomes
used to
> determine eligibility are:
> 
>               1 person $614
>               2 people $820
>               3 people $1027
>               4 people $1234
>               5 people $1440
>               ($207 each additional person)
>               You may have up to $2000 in resources and some items are
exempt.
> 
> AFDC:
> 
> In 1993,  Aid to Families with Dependent Children cost the nation as a
whole
> $22.3  billion.
> 
>        spending on AFDC consumed about 0.35 percent of the gross domestic
>        product.
> 
> 
> Corporate Welfare:
> 
> There are more than 100 such corporate subsidy programs in the federal
budget
> today, with annual expenditures of roughly $75 billion. Terminating those
> programs could save taxpayers more than $400 billion over the next five
years.
> 
> 
> Seems the corps (you know the ones with the REAL power) need some of the
> attention of the anti-welfare forces as opposed to the poor. Or do they
(the
> anti-welfare forces) just want to pick on the powerless.
> 

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Lets see without looking at any numbers but the above, you are only giving
AFDC as the total amount of welfare paid out by the government and assuming
food stamps are free and other forms of assistance are free. Yet you
compare this partial number to the total amount of "corporate welfare"
payments, without even listing any of the programs, and call that a
legitimate comparison for this discussion. I've got to take exception to
your position.

Now I would agree that corporations probably come out better than poor
people, but I would also bet it is in the form of tax breaks rather than
direct payments. If you like big government, you better like big business.
The more money the government controls, the more profitable it will be for
the powerful to buy influence.
If you look at the federal budget, you will see the vast majority of
Federal payments goes to the middle class in the form of SS, Medicare,
school loans, mortgage help, etc. This spending dwarfs defense, interest on
the debt, and both corporate and poverty welfare spending. Why? Because the
middle class is the biggest special interest group of all.
If you really want to help the poor, start diverting middle class benefits
to the poor. That is where the big money is. Of course good luck if you
should try to do this.

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