THE WELFARE STATE MADNESS!

Let me make it clear at the onset.  The term,"welfare state" is defined by the Webster dictionary as "a social system based on the assumption by a political state of primary responsibility for the individual and social welfare of its citizens."  The term does not include Social Security, Veterans Benefits, unemployment insurance, or workers compensation.  These are consider earned benefits.  They are not "means-tested."
According to Robert Rector of Heritage Foundation there are "69 federal programs providing cash, food, housing, medical care, social services, training, and targeted education aid to poor and low-income Americans."  These fall into 9 broad categories: 1)-Food aid, 2) Housing Assistance, 3) Medical assistance, 4) Social Services, 5) Educational Assistance, 6) Direct Cash Assistance, 7) Energy & Utility Assistance, 8) Child Care, 9) Child Development Programs.
There are about 90 million full-time workers today plus some 16 million Government workers.  Americans on welfare total 110 million.  The 20 years from 1989 to 2008 total means-tested spending increased 292 percent!
In the 50 years since President Johnson's "War on poverty" we have spent over 22 TRILLION dollars on anti-poverty programs.  More money then the country has spent on all our wars since the Revolution!  MADNESS--I SAY AGAIN-MADNESS! .........Medicineman!