RE: An observation by a non-wealthy person who lives in the U.S. - Just a person
The numbers come from reports from charities broken down by various things, especially political affiliation. But, thinking about it today, all those reports are probably buried as they might tell a bad picture.
The problem with the illusion is that both sides are delusional.
The "communists" want free stuff from the govern-cement, and usually rely on govern-cement money for their living. But they never speak about it in terms of them, they always coach it in terms of helping the poor, or providing a safety net.
The "free market" people believe that govern-cement is doing what they say they are doing. Yes, we think we should help the poor.
However, what the govern-cement is doing is helping themselves. The poor need houses? Well, lets get our friend, the contractor, to build some new houses at "govern-cement" prices. While (Catherine Austin Fitts) was saying, we have enough foreclosures on our books, we could repair and upgrade them for much less.
The govern-cement ALWAYS gets what it wants. They aren't dummies, so if you see something that looks like they are being stupid with money, change your thinking, because it is happening deliberately.
So, the "free market" people are delusional because they believe that govern-cement is just incompetent but are doing what they are saying.
Everyone should stop paying taxes until the DOJ finds the missing money.
But then we would find that these govern-cement agencies don't run off of taxes.