How badly are we boned?

This badly.  CBS reports there are now more people on welfare than there are full time workers.  

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.

Samuel Johnson has an appropriate comment on this:

There will always be a part, and always a very large part of every community, that have no care but for themselves, and whose care for themselves reaches little further than impatience of immediate pain, and eagerness for the nearest good.

A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek.

There are, in every age, new errors to be rectified, and new prejudices to be opposed.

No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority.

It ought to be deeply impressed on the minds of all who have voices in this national deliberation, that no man can deserve a seat in parliament, who is not a patriot. No other man will protect our rights: no other man can merit our confidence.

Slavery is now no where more patiently endured, than in countries once inhabited by the zealots of liberty.

Via American Digest