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>Government Dependency Will End in Chaos  - Ron Paul - 
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"Worse, corporate welfare is also at an all-time high with no signs of diminishing. Though it is hard to quantify, Tad Dehaven at Cato has estimated that the government spends nearly twice as much on corporate welfare than on social welfare"

Whaaaa? Please substantiate. The reference claims that all expenditures of some depts. constitute corporate welfare.
1. Money spent for variouss things
2. It is money first taken forcibly from them. with a partial redistribution to some of them
3. The amounts cited are nowhere near what is paid out in personal entitlements.


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Beginning of the headline :The media insists on characterizing statements about dependency on government handouts as controversial, but in truth such statements are absolutely correct. It's not that nearly half of Americans are dependent on government; it's actually more than half. If one includes not justpeople on food stamps and welfare, but also seniors on Medicare, Social Security and people employed by the government directly, the number is more like165 million out of 308 million, which is 53%... Read More
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