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Old 05-04-2012, 04:14 PM  
Rochard
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Originally Posted by PR_Tom View Post
If I go on welfare, foodstamps and medicaid from my state, it's from people including all the generations of my family as well as myself who paid into those systems.
Sort of.

The money you paid into the systems was used to support (pay) people currently enrolled in the system. In other words, if you go on welfare today you aren't pulling from money you paid into the system over the past twenty years, but instead you are pulling money from people currently paying into it.
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