The Most Honest Three Minutes In Television History

“The Most Honest Three Minutes In Television History” is the title of this scene from the HBO series “The Newsroom“.

I have my opinions about the show, but Jeff Daniels’ character does make a valid point about our generation being the “Worst Generation”. He also says at the end, that the reason why are no longer the greatest country in the world is because the citizens are not as informed as they used to be. Does that sound like the typical Obama voter?

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Welfare Recipients Now Outnumber Full-Time Workers

These figures are from 2011. Does anyone want to guess what the figures are now?

ObamaCardAmericans who were recipients of means-tested government benefits in 2011 outnumbered year-round full-time workers, according to data released this month by the Census Bureau.

They also out-numbered the total population of the Philippines.

There were 108,592,000 people in the United States in the fourth quarter of 2011 who were recipients of one or more means-tested government benefit programs, the Census Bureau said in data released this week. Meanwhile, according to the Census Bureau, there were 101,716,000 people who worked full-time year round in 2011. That included both private-sector and government workers.

That means there were about 1.07 people getting some form of means-tested government benefit for every 1 person working full-time year round.

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