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Don't you conservatives ever have anything better to do than pandering to the stupidity of your base?
In 2010, the United States spent $19.9 billion on TANF and $2.0 billion on social service block grants. That means they spent $21.9 billion in a $3.6 Trillion federal budget on welfare. Here's a 2010 link for all the programs, except Food Stamps (SNAP) that are called welfare, so post the figures and prove what is spent on welfare is such a big deal:
http://www.census.gov/prod/2011pubs/fas-10.pdf
Here's a link for what is spent on SNAP:
SNAP Monthly Data
If you consider unemployment welfare, get it from the BLS! Post the maximum amounts someone can make for any welfare program and how much they can receive!
Do you really think those strip clubs are losing sleep over that bill? In the South, you can buy beer and wine in nearly any store, but in the North, you have to go to a liquor store to buy it. Since the South has more people receiving those social programs, how is that going to work out? How are you going to know the person is getting their money from the government and how could you know someone buying something in a liquor store is using their own money and buying it for themselves?
This is just meaningless gotcha legislation by a majority party in Congress, with nothing better to do as it's people suffer, because of their own stupid legislation in the past.
Take heed America and vote every Republican out of office!
Your numbers are misleading. Yes, "welfare" is a small portion of the federal budget. Entitlements over all, however? MASSIVE expenditure:
Any cost cutting/fraud reduction measures or checks on the system should be praise. And your silly little comment about voting Republicans out? This vote passed with two thirds majority in the house. That means the dems were in on it to. Why to make this some sort of idiotic partisan nonsense when it wasn't.