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* Medical assistance to low income persons cost $222 billion or 51 percent of total welfare spending.
* Cash, food and housing aid together cost $167 billion or 38 percent of the total.
* Social Services, training, targeted education, and community development aid cost around $47 billion or 11 percent of the total.
Regardless of the number, I think its safe to say we spend far more on welfare programs than the War in Iraq. I just find it interesting that no one wants to talk about those number when talking about spending money on an observatory or the like. Personally I like when the government spends on things like an observatory or even a war, those I think fall under the 'government spending' umbrella. I don't like when they give my money to other people they think need it more for whatever reason.
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