{"id":36525,"date":"2019-07-08T12:53:39","date_gmt":"2019-07-08T16:53:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=36525"},"modified":"2019-07-08T12:53:39","modified_gmt":"2019-07-08T16:53:39","slug":"we-need-to-celebrate-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=36525","title":{"rendered":"We Need To Celebrate This"},"content":{"rendered":"

Issues & Insights<\/a> posted an article today about the change in the number of Americans dependent on Government since President Trump took office.<\/p>\n

The article includes a chart showing the change:<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Here are some of the highlights listed in the article:<\/p>\n

Disability<\/span>.\u00a0The number of workers on Social Security\u2019s Disability Insurance program has sharply declined as well. It went from 88 million in January 2017 to 84.9 million as of May. That\u2019s the lowest it\u2019s been since August 2011.<\/strong><\/p>\n

…Medicaid<\/span>.\u00a0Enrollment in Medicaid also has dropped sharply since Trump took office \u2014 despite the fact that Virginia decided to expand its program under Obamacare, which added some 300,000 to its Medicaid rolls over those years.<\/strong><\/p>\n

As of this March, the total number of people on Medicaid and CHIP \u2014 the health insurance program for children \u2014 was\u00a0down by 2.5 million<\/em>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Obamacare<\/span>.\u00a0The number enrolled in Obamacare has declined every year since Trump took office as well, and is now 1 million below where it was at the end of 2016.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Welfare<\/span>.\u00a0The number of those collecting welfare \u2014 either on the federal Temporary Assistance for Needy Families or what are called \u201cseparate state programs\u201d \u2014 has dropped by more than 800,000 under Trump.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The article concludes:<\/p>\n

In a less biased news media world, the decline in government dependency would be front-page news.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Instead, when they\u2019re acknowledged at all, these enrollment drops are treated as bad news by the Left, which treats any declining benefit programs as a problem that needs to be fixed \u2014 usually by expanding these programs. Thus, you have every Democratic candidate for president talking about trillions upon trillions of new benefit programs, which are designed to ensnare as many as possible in the net of government dependency.<\/strong><\/p>\n

They have it exactly backward. The goal should be to have\u00a0zero<\/em> people collecting government benefits \u2014 because they are gainfully employed and don\u2019t need them. Anything else should be treated as a failure.<\/strong><\/p>\n

One of the reasons that it is so difficult to shrink government programs is that in addition to the people they serve, they provide employment for government workers. These workers understand that if assistance programs shrink drastically, then there will be fewer staff members needed to oversee the programs. It is definitely a reverse incentive to cut dependence on the government.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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