If you include all federal benefits that go to specific households, from Social Security to even tax expenditures like the mortgage-interest deduction, then survey data from 2008 reveals that 96 percent of Americans have received assistance from the federal government at some point in their life:
[...] Young adults, who are not yet eligible for many policies, account for most of the remaining 4 percent. On average, people reported that they had used five social policies at some point in their lives.
Fortunately for the GOP, most of us don't know we're recipients though, so we can vote against those "moochers" and "leeches" (against ourselves) with a clear conscience and plenty of righteous anger. Ignorance is bliss!
By Brad Plumer
September 26, 2012 | Washington Post
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