Big Beyond Comprehension – Unfunded Liabilities

How big is this monster?

Just How Much Do the Unfunded Liabilities Amount To?

As we know, the unfunded liabilities monster is composed of three main components. Social Security. Medicare and Medicaid.

There are various calculations of the size of each component, with the total size of the Monster ranging from $22 tr to $118 tr (when including Medicaid).

We are now going to present the various calculations.

Government Accountability Office (GAO) – $30 tr plus Medicaid

Board of Trustees of Social Security and Medicare – $18 tr plus Medicaid

National Center for Policy Analysis (NCPA) – $107 tr plus Medicaid

USDebtClock.org – $114 tr plus Medicaid

Richard Fischer – $99 tr plus Medicaid

So we see that the calculations for the size of the unfunded liabilities monster are quite varied. The monster’s size ranges from $18 tr according to Board of Trustees of Social Security and Medicare, to $114 tr according to the USDebtClock.org. As an average, we can say that the monster is either around $30 tr or $100 tr. Read the rest of this entry »

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Poisonous Temptation? Food Stamp Enslavement

Entitlement Programs and Social Welfare

In addition to the social welfare of Medicaid, there is another social welfare program that reflects the degree of dependency the American people have on the government. In fact, this other social welfare program reflects and even deeper degree of dependency, because of its importance in human life.

If you are depending on this social welfare program, your degree of dependence on the nearly bankrupt and indebted US government and your painful lack of self-sufficiency is at a pulsatingly dangerous level.

The illustration we are going to look into as a measure of American dependence on the government and an answer to the question – Are we relying on the government? – is, food stamps.

Origin of the Food Stamp Program

Food stamps, technically known as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), was created in 1939. Food stamps are a form of government financial assistance for low-income earners to use for purchasing food. The stamps started out as actual paper squares worth various increments of money. Now, in this age of electronics and light speed transfers of information, the stamps exist in the form of a card named an Electronic Benefits Card (EBT). Read the rest of this entry »

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Picking a Top Social Work Program With Good Ratings For the MSW Degree

There are a number of excellent schools for getting your Master’s in Social Work (MSW) degree. You may feel that you don’t have the grades or credentials to qualify for the top 5 which include Washington University in St. Louis, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, University of Chicago in Illinois, Columbia University in NYC and University of Washington in Seattle. But there are other schools with top ratings that you may be a good match for.

Here are the some highly ranked social work programs around the United States:

University of California in Berkley – students can earn an MSW or PhD. They also offer dual programs social welfare and public health, social welfare and law degree.

University of Texas, Austin – This school offers a MSSW degree. This is another alternative to the MSW and is recognized as such.

University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill – offers MSW, dual Master’s in law, public administration, public health, and divinity, and a doctorate degree. Read the rest of this entry »

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