Quote from futurecurrents:
How can that be? SS and defense is about half the budget. Welfare, unemployment and food stamps is 13 %.
I understand now why you are so angry and confused. You, like most of your rightwing wing-nut friends here, really have no idea of what the facts are.
Again with the facts, shouldn't do that. Their only world is the world of Fox and crew.
States spending too, a caveat of sorts I guess.
In FY 2008, the only year for which complete data is available, state Medicaid and CHIP spending in was $154.1 billion, which
accounted for 65 percent of total state spending in that year. By FY 2011 such spending had grown to $160.3 billion. However,
the 2009 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (the stimulus bill, also known as ARRA) included a provision to boost the
federal governmentâs share of Medicaid spending. Specifically, the federal government paid for about 63 percent of the total
Medicaid bill in FY11, whereas in FY08 it paid for only 57 percent. Assuming Medicaid and CHIP made up the same portion of
statesâ total low-income assistance in FY11 that it did in FY08âand knowing the change in state Medicaid spending due to the
stimulusâtotal FY11 state spending on federal welfare can be estimated at $282.7 billion.
