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Originally Posted by Leon
"Approximately 3% of people abuse unemployment and entitlements like welfare. That costs U.S. citizens $3.5 billion dollars ($5,000 per citizen)"
Whomever says that is ignorant. That isn't a personal attack. it is they just don't know the truth.
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I'm not sure if they are ignorant, but they are either math challenged or don't proofread what they type or something is not explained in the analysis.
There are currently around 340 million people living in this country. Let's be conservative and use the 2010 census figure of less than 309 million. Let's say 308 million people. Let's be further conservative and assume that 10% of the population are not citizens. That leaves 277 million citizens. $3.5 billion divided by 277 million is less than $13 per citizen. How did they come up with $5,000 per citizen? Or am I missing something?