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Makes one wonder WTF?

That’s a lot of doe-ray-me for no affect on poverty levels. Maybe we should rethink this whole thing and kick some of these assholes off welfare. Then again, I can think of one way to reduce it by 41% alone! Undo Obama.

Drug tests are a good start. I gotta take one to get a job, they should have to take one to get welfare.

My guess is that would cut about 40% off too.

Now we’re down to only 19%! It’s just sarcasm, don’t get your panties in a bunch.

Study: More Than Half a Trillion Dollars Spent on Welfare – But Poverty Levels Unaffected
“The vast majority of current programs are focused on making poverty more comfortable … rather than giving people the tools that will help them escape poverty.”
By Matt Cover

(CNSNews.com) – The government is not making much headway reducing poverty despite spending hundreds of billions of dollars, according to a study by the libertarian Cato Institute.

Despite an unprecedented increase in federal anti-poverty spending the national poverty rate has not declined, it finds.

“[S]ince President Obama took office, federal welfare spending has increased by 41 percent, more than $193 billion per year.” the study says.

Federal welfare spending this year now totals $668 billion, spread out over 126 programs, while the poverty rate that remains stubbornly high at nearly 15 percent – roughly where it was in 1965, when President Johnson declared a federal War on Poverty.

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