{"id":570383,"date":"2010-05-19T06:46:26","date_gmt":"2010-05-19T10:46:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.prisonplanet.com\/?p=43312"},"modified":"2010-05-19T06:46:26","modified_gmt":"2010-05-19T10:46:26","slug":"11-signs-that-the-u-s-government-has-become-an-overgrown-monstrosity-that-almost-every-american-is-dependent-upon-for-economic-survival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/570383","title":{"rendered":"11 Signs That The U.S. Government Has Become An Overgrown Monstrosity That Almost Every American Is Dependent Upon For Economic Survival"},"content":{"rendered":"

Via Prison Planet.com \u00bb Prison Planet<\/p>\n

The Economic Collapse<\/a>
\nMay 19, 2010<\/p>\n

Today, the number of Americans who are able to financially survive without any reliance on the U.S. government whatsoever is declining at a staggering rate.\u00a0 Whether it is through direct handouts, entitlement programs, student loans, government bailouts, government contracts or direct employment, the truth is that now a solid majority of the American people are at least partially dependent on the federal government for their economic survival.\u00a0 The sad thing is that the majority of the American people say that there is too much government in their lives when opinion polls are taken, but if you try to take the government check that they are getting away from them those same people will scream bloody murder.\u00a0 But the truth is that it is getting to be really, really hard to be completely independent of the U.S. government economically.\u00a0 That is because the U.S. government has\u00a0their hands in\u00a0almost everything.\u00a0 The ideal of a “limited federal government”\u00a0has long since faded away.\u00a0 Very few people seem to believe in it anymore.\u00a0 Instead, Americans today look to\u00a0the federal government\u00a0as the answer to all of our problems, as the provider of all of our needs, and as the regulator of every single detail of our lives.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The U.S. government has become the “Big Mother” that we all scramble to for a handout when we get into trouble.<\/p>\n

When you sit down and really analyze it, you quickly realize that there is no way that the U.S. government can be extricated from the U.S. economy now.\u00a0 Instead of the free enterprise system that we once had in this country, today we have a situation where the U.S. government has become the very core of the economy.\u00a0 It is the\u00a0hub around which everything else in the economy revolves.<\/p>\n

You don’t believe this?<\/p>\n

The following are 11 signs that the U.S. government has become an overgrown monstrosity that almost every American is dependent upon for economic survival….\u00a0<\/p>\n

#1) The Explosion Of Government Handouts<\/strong><\/p>\n

39.68 million Americans<\/a> are now on\u00a0food stamps.\u00a0 Millions of others are completely dependent on the extended unemployment benefits that they are receiving.\u00a0\u00a0Millions of other Americans are able to survive financially because of the dozens of other welfare programs that the U.S. government subsidizes.\u00a0 More Americans are receiving some form of welfare than ever before in history, and each month the numbers continue to go up.\u00a0 Could there come a day when we all<\/strong> receive government handouts every month?<\/p>\n

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#2)<\/strong> The Entitlements Programs That Threaten To Destroy U.S. Government Finances<\/strong><\/p>\n

Entitlements are the single biggest U.S. government expense.\u00a0 These programs\u00a0include Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid\u00a0and other social\u00a0Ponzi schemes.\u00a0 Tens of millions of Americans receive government assistance through these programs.\u00a0 In fact, nearly 51 million Americans<\/a> received $672 billion in Social Security benefits in 2009.\u00a0 We all have friends or family members who receive these kinds of payments.\u00a0 But cutting so many people a check year after year is slowly but surely destroying U.S. government finances.\u00a0\u00a0According to\u00a0an official U.S. government report<\/a>, rapidly growing\u00a0interest costs on the\u00a0national debt together with spending on major entitlement programs\u00a0will absorb approximately 92 cents of every dollar of federal revenue\u00a0by the year\u00a02019.\u00a0 That is before a penny is spent on anything else.\u00a0 This is clearly not a sustainable financial situation by any definition, but who wants to tell tens of millions of Americans that their checks are going to be reduced?<\/p>\n

#3) The U.S. Government Is Now Even Paying Mortgages<\/strong><\/p>\n

Yes, you read that right.\u00a0 As part of the “stimulus” package, the U.S. government is going to send money to some of the states that were hit the hardest by the real estate crisis.\u00a0 So what is that money going to be used for?\u00a0 Well, Florida, Michigan, California and Arizona\u00a0have all announced that they\u00a0plan to use $1.4 billion the Obama administration is sending their way to help the unemployed and the “underwater” pay their mortgages<\/a>.<\/p>\n

#4) Without The Student Loan Program A Huge Percentage Of College Students Would Not Get An Education<\/strong><\/p>\n

The federal student loan program (which was recently entirely nationalized) helps millions of college students pay for their education.\u00a0 Without this assistance by the government, a lot less students would be going to college.\u00a0 In fact, many of you that are reading this article directly benefited from the federal student loan program.<\/p>\n

#5) The Bailout Of AIG<\/strong><\/p>\n

One of the biggest insurance companies in the world, AIG, would not be in existence today if not for direct federal government intervention.\u00a0 It kind of makes you wonder what George Washington and Thomas Jefferson would think about a federal government that hands big bags of cash to a giant insurance company so that it can survive.\u00a0 Whether it was so they could pay off their debts to Goldman Sachs<\/a> or whether it was so that they could keep paying out record-setting bonuses, the truth is that AIG would not have made it without the federal government stepping in.<\/p>\n

#6) The “Too Big To Fail”\u00a0Banks<\/strong><\/p>\n

But it wasn’t just AIG that got bailed out.\u00a0 A number of big banks may have gone under if not for the U.S. government.\u00a0 The U.S. government decided that they were “too big to fail”.\u00a0 Well, what about all the small banks that are going under?\u00a0 The truth is that they are “too small to bother with”<\/a>.\u00a0 We now live in a nation where the U.S. government is the one who decides which banks live and which banks die like dogs.\u00a0 Doesn’t that just make you feel all warm and fuzzy?<\/p>\n

#7) The Bailout Of General Motors<\/strong><\/p>\n

But not only does the federal government bail out financial institutions – it is also now in the car business.\u00a0 Yes, grand old General Motors may have ended up on the scrap heap of history if not for the U.S. government stepping in.\u00a0 So if you work for General Motors or if you work for any company that does business with General Motors, you can thank Uncle Sam for the fact that you still have a job.<\/p>\n

#8) The Bailouts Of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac<\/strong><\/p>\n

If the U.S. government had not bailed out Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, we may not have much of a mortgage industry at this point at all.\u00a0 According to Inside Mortgage Finance<\/a>, government-related entities backed 96.5% of all home loans during the first quarter of 2010, which was up from 90% in 2009.\u00a0 So if you borrowed money to buy a home over the past couple of years, there is a very strong likelihood that the U.S. government was involved.<\/p>\n

#9) The U.S. Government – The Nation’s Biggest Employer<\/strong><\/p>\n

According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics<\/a>, approximately 2\u00a0million civilians work for the federal government, excluding the Postal Service.\u00a0 When you add in all U.S. military personnel, that number goes much higher.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The truth is that as the government continues to expand (become more bloated), more Americans than ever are hopping aboard the gravy train.\u00a0 Today, the average federal worker now earns about twice as much<\/a> as the average worker in the private sector.\u00a0 So if you want to do little work, produce\u00a0little of real value and enjoy super cushy benefits, maybe you should apply for a job with the federal government too.<\/p>\n

#10) Millions Of Americans Are Employed By Firms That Rely On Government Contracts<\/strong><\/p>\n

When considering the impact of the U.S. government on the economy, you can’t forget the hundreds of companies that would go out of business if their U.S. government contracts were taken away.\u00a0 There are literally millions of people who work for companies that do business with the government.\u00a0 If the government disappeared it would cause economic chaos for those firms.\u00a0 The truth is that\u00a0a whole lot of people make a really good living plugging into the sweetest revenue source of them all – the U.S. government.<\/p>\n

#11) The U.S. Government Takeover Of The Health Care\u00a0System<\/strong><\/p>\n

The U.S. government takeover of the health care system is going to fundamentally change the economics of the health care industry.\u00a0 The U.S. government will now\u00a0play a major role in deciding\u00a0which hospitals get built and which do not<\/a>.\u00a0 Approximately 17% of U.S. GDP\u00a0is spent on health care, and now the U.S. government has unprecedented control over where that money goes.\u00a0 Over a dozen new taxes<\/a> have been\u00a0established by the new health care reform law, and the U.S. government is going to pour an unprecedented amount of money into the system.\u00a0 So will this result in all of us getting better health care?\u00a0 We’ll just have to wait and see.<\/p>\n

The truth is that the Founding Fathers never envisioned a federal government that completely dominated that national economy.\u00a0 But that is what we have got.\u00a0 As of now, only a very small percentage of Americans are still able to say that they are completely financially independent of the U.S. government.\u00a0<\/p>\n

You see, in economic terms the U.S. government is not just the elephant in the room.\u00a0 It is the elephant that sat on the room and nearly suffocated everything else out of existence.<\/p>\n

As Americans, we live in an economy that is so intertwined with the government that it is impossible to separate the two anymore.<\/p>\n

But the really bad news is that the U.S. government is in massive financial trouble.\u00a0 According to\u00a0one new report, the U.S. national debt will reach 100 percent of GDP by the year 2015<\/a>.\u00a0 Many economists regard that as an incredibly dangerous threshold to cross.<\/p>\n

If U.S. government finances collapse, it will mean the collapse of the entire U.S. economy as well.\u00a0 There is simply no separating the two.\u00a0 And considering the fact that the U.S. government has piled up the biggest mountain of debt in the history of the world<\/a>, things don’t look promising.<\/p>\n

America is headed for an unprecedented economic collapse, and the U.S. government is leading the way.\u00a0 If you can get financially independent, now is the time to try to do that, but the reality is that we will all feel massive economic pain when this thing comes crashing down.<\/p>\n

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