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Americans For Tax Reform Mattie Duppler on welfare recipients, growing government and how it affects the private economy.
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-- right now the number of Americans working is barely rising while the number of people want some kind of government assistance is skyrocketing.
Look at this for every one point 65 people in -- workforce there's at least one welfare recipient.
Joining us -- -- doppler from Americans for Tax Reform.
You know -- these numbers are absolutely staggering and -- just.
It's isn't you know it's obvious to anyone it just can't continue at this rate.
Right about Larry Charles and you know -- -- -- we're looking at here is not talented people on Medicaid but the arrest of a welfare state you know -- spending the food stamp program.
Spending has doubled in the past four years under President Obama.
Medicaid even though we now have the Supreme Court telling us that the -- -- will be different under robotic than first anticipated.
Let's -- -- twenty million new enrollees under the help our president's health care plan you know.
These kinds of welfare assistance is -- welfare state is exactly what the president means to get reelected he is building constituency of dependency.
-- you know moving forward he's done nothing for the private sector nothing to increase -- nothing give us an economy that actually produces real -- That's a really strong stating you're making you're saying that the president of the United States wants people want food stamps and once people on welfare.
It's -- -- true I mean look at what he's done this economy.
He's given us a health care a lot that's going to have us trillions in new spending trillions in new taxes and going to require employers to start spending money they don't have.
I'm programs and health care plans that they can't afford this is going to absolutely -- down capital.
And -- decrease the amount employment opportunities available you know you -- The statement earlier about college kids coming out of school -- not having any opportunity is after they spent years in.
Hundreds of thousands of dollars on -- dedication you know where are they going to go to increase productivity -- contribute to this economy.
You know I have these have seen over the past four years the only answer that the Obama administration house is to grow the size of government as an experiment in stimulus and government spending.
That's simply hasn't worked.
And you have a new report out this morning and you talk about just how long we.
The workers have to work to pay for all this.
Exactly and this is a good metric to look at to understand.
What this kind of government growth does the private economy so our report the cost of government data report calculates how long the average American must work to actually pay for this burden of government.
Lot of people only think about the tax you know the taxes -- paying.
At any year they think they're done paying for government you know by the spring and that certainly not the case given all -- deficit spending we're doing.
Given the huge regulatory burden that is coming down the pipe from the Obama administration.
I you know we're working much longer much later -- the year ER they would show us.
We do our report -- that you're working a 197.
Days out of the year to pay for government that means that Sunday July 15 its cost of they -- they start working for your family -- them for yourself.
-- -- -- -- -- -- you and then I've servants who -- to -- an alarm clock in the morning July yeah I think you start to keep -- all the money the old boy backfire well -- -- what that come.
The data aren't aware that -- today -- we better really seriously I mean tendency did not withstanding a celebrate this because apparently it's only gonna get worse than honorable.
That's -- -- you know it says something that we need to be looking at come November.
What the size of government does -- private enterprise does to families and employers and obviously if you're working over half the year to pay for government.
What time and what apple opportunities that that leave for yourself before your own business isn't Italy's you know that's the question -- need to be asking themselves going into now about our.
Yeah I've asked myself that number already answered this but thank you very much -- -- and -- Carlos is.
