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Originally Posted by Harrison
We can't seem find money to fix bridges, pipelines, and highways etc., but we can find money for welfare, benefits for illegal aliens, bailing out banks and GM etc. Something is really wrong with our local, state and federal governments.
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Annual spending on welfare (TANF) — $4.5 billion — amounts to less than one percent of what was spent on the bank bailout (TARP) — $700 billion. Citibank alone received $25 billion, five times the cash transferred to mothers and children receiving public assistance in 2007. Top executives of banks bailed out in 2009 — about 600 guys — received an estimated $1.6 billion in bonuses in 2007. That’s a little over a third of what 1.6 million families got in cash from TANF in that year.
Why do you support corporate welfare for the super-rich, and seek to deny bare subsistence — an average of $426 per family per month — to the poor? Ask yourself, WWJD?
Bullseye