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inanna

(3,547 posts) Wed Jan 14, 2015, 05:49 PM Jan 2015

David Barton Again Falsely Claims The Average Welfare Family Receives $61,000 A Year In Benefits

Right Wing Watch
Submitted by Kyle Mantyla on Wednesday, 1/14/2015 3:07 pm

A few months ago, David Barton appeared on Glenn Beck's radio program, where he falsely asserted that the "average welfare family" receives $61,000 a year in government benefits.

As we pointed out at the time, this was an entirely misleading claim first put forth by the Republicans on the Senate Budget Committee back in 2012 that was, as the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities explained, derived by relying on "a series of serious manipulations of the data that violate basic analytic standards and are used to produce a potentially inflammatory result."

But just because the claim is false, that certainly is not going to stop Barton from repeating it, as he did when he appeared on Daystar's "Marcus and Joni" program yesterday:

Link: http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/david-barton-again-falsely-claims-average-welfare-family-receives-61000-year-benefits

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David Barton Again Falsely Claims The Average Welfare Family Receives $61,000 A Year In Benefits (Original Post) inanna Jan 2015 OP

I think the liberals need to get in front of this yeoman6987 Jan 2015 #1

I am not a US citizen inanna Jan 2015 #2

And it costs $73,000+ a year to lock someone up. Downwinder Jan 2015 #3

Liars lie blkmusclmachine Jan 2015 #4

yeoman6987

(14,449 posts)

1. I think the liberals need to get in front of this

Reply to inanna (Original post)

Wed Jan 14, 2015, 06:22 PM

Jan 2015

And give the total amount that a welfare recipient gets. Otherwise that 61k will stick. I would guess 25k max and that includes EVERYTHING from health, food, housing, stipen, phone. We need to fight that 61K now.

inanna

(3,547 posts)

2. I am not a US citizen

Reply to yeoman6987 (Reply #1)

Wed Jan 14, 2015, 06:50 PM

Jan 2015

I live in Canada and our social safety net is considered by most around the world to be excellent. But even here benefits (in Ontario to be specific) do not exceed $660.00/mth for a single person.

Expanding that to include a family of four brings the total up to $2640.00/mth and that is at the high end as I don't think children qualify for an adult amount of benefits. So yearly here in Ontario, benefits for a family of four would not exceed $31,680.00 - and again I'm going quite high on that figure.

(Social assistance in Ontario also includes the drug benefit as well.)

But this Barton guy is off his rocker if he thinks the average US family is getting the absurd amount he claims here.

Downwinder

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3. And it costs $73,000+ a year to lock someone up.

Reply to inanna (Original post)

Wed Jan 14, 2015, 08:44 PM

Jan 2015

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blkmusclmachine

(16,149 posts)

4. Liars lie

Reply to inanna (Original post)

Wed Jan 14, 2015, 11:52 PM

Jan 2015

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