Over $60,000 in Welfare Spent Per Household in Poverty in 2011

[drlmg]

Actually  $61,194 used to further enslave dependent democrat voters

EDIT.... sorry, forgot the link to the article....

and yes, this is per household (at or below poverty) for 2011!!

http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/over-60000-welfare-spentper-household-poverty_657889.html

[briann]

That couldnt possibly be the yearly cost per household... thats probably the cost per 5 years or something.  Its still way too much though.

[Zelhar]

That couldnt possibly be the yearly cost per household... thats probably the cost per 5 years or something.  Its still way too much though.

There has been a recent report, which I posted the link for, according to which the welfare expense are over $ 1 trillion. There are about 50 million poor (by government definition) in the US. So the per capita spending is about $ 20,000 per poor person and over $ 60,000 per poor household annually.

But due to government inefficiency I suppose at least half the funds at least are wasted on wages for government employees and contractors or by outright theft.

[briann]

Oh, I misread.  So for the average household that is receiving welfare, that household costs us $60,000

Brian

[drlmg]

Oh, I misread.  So for the average household that is receiving welfare, that household costs us $60,000

Brian

You probably read the post correctly...Actually, I was half asleep and hit POST by accident I think. Anyway, the whole post including the link to the article were absent, I edited it later. So it was my fault, the post was incomplete.