The Yahoo News website reports today (August 9, 2012) that there are now more Americans dependent on the federal government for money than ever before in U.S. history.
According to the Survey of Income and Program Participation -- conducted by the U.S. Census -- well over 100 million Americans are currently enrolled in at least one welfare program run by the federal government. Many are enrolled in more than one welfare program.
That is about one-third of the entire population of the country. Sadly, that figure does not even include Social Security or Medicare.
Today the federal government runs some 80 different "means-tested welfare programs," and almost all of those programs have experienced substantial growth in recent years. America's rapid and gigantic growth in welfare during the past few years illustrates how the United States has become a socialist nation, and why it has been nicknamed "the welfare state."
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