The Welfare State - American Corporations Live Off The Welfare Of American Workers

 The Welfare State - American Corporations Live Off The Welfare Of American Workers

From 2007 to 2011, the biggest public benefits programs spent $243 billion each year on working families who live in poverty or on the brink of it because their jobs pay so poorly, according to a study published Tuesday by researchers at the University of California, Berkeley. The research focuses on fast food workers as exemplifying the plight of low-wage workers and the costs that low wages pass along to taxpayers.

    The study focused on the largest direct assistance programs to establish the cost of the “last line of defense between America’s growing low-income workforce and the want of basic necessities.” The combined cost of public health care programs, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP, or food stamps), the Earned Income Tax Credit that targets low-income workers, and Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF, formerly known as welfare Note: No one can live off TANF or welfare there whole life, there is a limit of five years for any one person's lifetime) for working families averaged $243 billion from 2007 to 2011.

Conservative and anti-American plutocrats like the Koch brothers are not capitalists, they do not practice free enterprise, neither do the Waltons ( the family that owns WalMart, Walgreens and Sams Club). The five largest banks in the USA who are still so big that if they fail the country will go into another big recession - do not practice capitalism. They and all large US and western European corporations practice plutocracy, the modern incarnation of feudal lordships. Sure today is a little better, we get wages and we can buy stuff from those corporations, but they own American workers just like feudal lords owned serfs. Even more crazy is that American workers - by virtue of the capital they create - pay these plutocrats to continue being plutocrats. Every time a working class Conservative or libertarian votes conservative they vote to disempower themselves and their country.