When Welfare Goes Wrong...

President Obama’s welfare spending will reach $888 billion in a single fiscal year--2010--more than the Bush administration spent on war in Iraq from the first “shock and awe” attack in 2003 until Bush left office in January.

Obama’s spending proposals call for the largest increases in welfare benefits in U.S. history, according to a report by the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank....These include cash payments, food, housing, Medicaid and various social services for low-income Americans and those at 200 percent of the poverty level, or $44,000 for a family of four.

The Heritage Foundation characterization of "welfare" spending is really appalling.

The actual numbers for welfare/income security programs is around $400B (est) and if you add Medicaid..another $250B (est).

So I'm assuming Heritage is including unemployment compensation, the self-funded SCHIP program, and I have no clue what else, in order to come up with their fear mongering number of $888B