Welcome to the $192,920 Wage Earning Welfare Recipients

When you think of welfare and welfare recipients, you probably think of someone who is extremely poor, driving a 20 year old car, living in a shack or rat-hole apartment, living on beans and crackers.

While you probably already knew that the average “poor” person in America owns their own home, has air conditioning, has one or more color televisions, owns a VCR/DVD player and has a stereo, you might not be aware that the health care “reform” plan devised by socialists in the American government would make a family with an income of $192,920 a welfare recipient.

From Terence Jeffrey’s piece at CNS News:

Now, according to the Department of Health and Human Services, the federal poverty level for a family of two is currently $14,570. That means a husband and wife with no children who earn up to $58,280 (400 percent of the poverty level) would be eligible for federal health insurance subsidies.

For a family of three—mom, dad and one child—the poverty level is $18,310. So, a family of this size would be able to earn up to $73,240 and still be on the federal health-insurance dole.

For a family of four—mom, dad and two children—the poverty level is $22,050, and the upper income for getting federal health insurance subsidies would be $88,200.

For a family the size of the Brady Bunch—mom, dad and six children—the poverty level is $37,010, and the upper income for getting health insurance subsidies would be $148,040.

For a family the size of the one Sen. Ted Kennedy, D-Mass., grew up in—two parents and nine children—the poverty level is $48,230, and the cutoff point for federal insurance subsidies would be $192,920.

Usually, the only thing the class warriors pushing health care reform want to give to higher income people is higher taxes. But not in this case, and the reason is simple: The more people who become reliant on government for their health care, the more control government will have over people’s lives.

Jeffrey goes on to cite Census Bureau statistics which show that the vast majority of the American people would qualify for the dole.

So Americans making $75,000…$100,000…or more will be paying for their own welfare payments…after portions of their tax dollars stick to the fingers of government bureaucrats as the money is shuffled.

If this is not insane, I don’t know what is.

But while it IS insane to average Americans, it is at the same time very purposeful and calculated. As Jeffrey points out, as crazy as this idea is, it has a purpose: to make more people dependent on government.

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