{"id":1911,"date":"2010-05-26T12:35:41","date_gmt":"2010-05-26T12:35:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=1911"},"modified":"2010-05-26T12:35:41","modified_gmt":"2010-05-26T12:35:41","slug":"who_is_paying_for_this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=1911","title":{"rendered":"Who Is Paying For This?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/opinion\/Slaves-to-the-government-dole-94877134.html\">Washington Examiner<\/a>&nbsp;posted an editorial about the growing dependence of Americans on government handouts.&nbsp; The editorial points out the private sector paychecks have declined to 41.9 percent of personal income during the first quarter of 2010.&nbsp; In December 2007,&nbsp;it was 44.6 percent.&nbsp; The personal income received from government programs has climbed to 17.9 percent, plus another 9.8 percent for government employees, bringing us to a total of 27.7 percent.&nbsp; According to the editorial, the remaining personal income is from &#8220;small business proprietor profits, farm profits, privately funded pensions, investment sales and dividents, and insurance annuities.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>As the number of people dependent on government grows, Heritage Foundation&#8217;s Index of Dependency is rapidly rising.&nbsp; It increased 13.9 percent for 2009, the biggest increase since 1962.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>The editorial states:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px\" dir=\"ltr\">\n<p><em>&#8220;The problem is that government only redistributes income to dependent individuals after taking it from productive individuals, a process that is reflected in tax returns.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Keeping in mind that whatever the government subsidizes increases, this does not bode well for the future of our country.&nbsp; We are encouraging dependency while discouraging productivity.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px\" dir=\"ltr\"><p>&nbsp;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s Washington Examiner&nbsp;posted an editorial about the growing dependence of Americans on government handouts.&nbsp; The editorial points out the private sector paychecks have declined to 41.9 percent of personal income during the first quarter of 2010.&nbsp; In December 2007,&nbsp;it was &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=1911\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1911\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}