{"id":878,"date":"2009-06-04T08:49:43","date_gmt":"2009-06-04T08:49:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=878"},"modified":"2009-06-04T08:49:43","modified_gmt":"2009-06-04T08:49:43","slug":"the_current_source_of_american","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=878","title":{"rendered":"The Current Source of Americans&#8217; Income"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/news\/washington\/2009-06-03-benefits_N.htm\">USA Today<\/a>&nbsp;has posted an article stating that one out of every six dollars earned by Americans is from the government.&nbsp; This income amounts to 16.2 % of personal income during the first quarter of 2009.&nbsp; That is the highest percentage since record keeping began in 1929.&nbsp; This includes all government benefit programs&#8211;Social Security, food stamps, medical benefits, and unemployment insurance.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>The article states that:<\/p>\n<blockquote dir=\"ltr\" style=\"MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px\">\n<p class=\"inside-copy\"><em>&#8220;In all, government spending on benefits will top $2 trillion in 2009 &#8212; an average of $17,000 provided to each U.S. household, federal data show. Benefits rose at a 19% annual rate in the first quarter compared to the last three months of 2008.&#8221; <\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"inside-copy\" dir=\"ltr\">That is not sustainable.&nbsp; There has been a&nbsp;$209 billion increase in government benefit costs from a year ago.&nbsp; Part of the problem is that we have reached the tipping point where more than 50% of Americans do not pay any income tax.&nbsp; Therefore, there is no incentive among voters to rein in spending.&nbsp; If this trend continues, prosperity and the American dream will become a distant memory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>USA Today&nbsp;has posted an article stating that one out of every six dollars earned by Americans is from the government.&nbsp; This income amounts to 16.2 % of personal income during the first quarter of 2009.&nbsp; That is the highest percentage &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=878\">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-878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/878","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=878"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/878\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}