Welfare State

 People receiving food stamps were caught selling and bartering their benefits online for art, housing and cash, according to a new federal report that investigates fraud in the nation’s la... Continue reading

Nick Sorrentino  This is a frustrating statistic to read. When so many rely upon the state for their well being, when getting taxpayer funded aid means the difference between having a full stomac... Continue reading

 Imagine a government program that has exploded in size, is the subject of bitter partisan haggling and spends almost $80 billion a year in secret. No, not the National Security Agency, the Centr... Continue reading

 In President Obama’s mismanaged economy, nearly 50 million Americans are on food stamps, because the country still hasn’t recovered from the 2008 recession. It is difficult for some ... Continue reading

Marianela Toldeo  MIAMI — One solution to the illegal immigration crisis gripping the nation’s southern border may be as simple as stopping U.S. aid to Central American gove... Continue reading

 The Commander of all US forces in Central and South America says that the crisis on our southern border could threaten America’s very existence.  Sadly, he is right. The border crisis... Continue reading

 The unemployment rate is an estimated measurement of the number of people who are not working as a percentage of the population that is or wants to be employed. It does not include people who ar... Continue reading

Mac Slavo | SHTFPlan.com Amid all the talk of recovery by politicians, economic officials and big business leaders, the fundamental numbers behind all the propaganda tell a starkly different story. Ho... Continue reading

The percentage of Americans on welfare in 2011 was the highest yet calculated  According to the 2014 version of a report that the Department of Health and Human Services is required by ... Continue reading

 For years, the Obama administration has been making it abundantly clear that it is a friend of illegal immigrants.  Border security is a joke, the federal government refuses to go after &ld...; Continue reading

Chris Edwards  Since the 1960s, the Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance (CFDA) has provided a list of all federal subsidy programs. That includes subsidies to individuals, businesses, nonprofi... Continue reading

 Illegal immigration is a serious problem in the U.S., and it’s also a major hot-button political issue that has stirred up waves of controversy for years. Much of the problem with thi... Continue reading

Christine Rousselle    More than 50 people have been indicted in Georgia for what is likely to be one of, if not the, largest welfare fraud rings ever uncovered. Over $18 million in WIC... Continue reading

Tony Lee  Illegal immigrants are reportedly signaling federal officials to detain them once they are near the U.S.-Mexico border, as Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials have decla... Continue reading

Michael Barone  Gummit don’t work good. That conclusion, often that inelegantly expressed, seems to be more and more common, not only in the United States but around the world. It is certai... Continue reading

Cortney O’Brien,  Always a hotbed for political discussion, The View created another touchy moment on Tuesday when Dr. Ben Carson criticized the ever increasing welfare system in America. A... Continue reading