Even as the economy has recovered, social welfare benefits make up 35 percent of wages and salaries this year, up from 21 percent in 2000 and 10 percent in 1960, according to TrimTabs Investment Research using Bureau of Economic Analysis data. The government is taking a third of everything you make to do with as they see fit. You are a slave to the system, all that time and effort you spent getting a good job was for naught. You would actually probably be better off just living off the government dole. The government is spending out of control and it is the hardworking American tax payer stuck with the bill. I seriously wouldn’t care if tomorrow they announced all the social programs were shut down. I’m sick of the government redistributing the fruits of my labor to others by the threat of force against me. It is nothing more that “legalized” theft. Continue reading →