http://www.freetalklive.com/taxonomy/term/23549/0 en http://www.freetalklive.com/content/us_verge_50_households_takeing_payments_govt <p>The U.S. is now on the verge of a symbolic threshold: the point at which more than half of all American households receive and accept transfer benefits from the government. Within living memory, the federal government has become an entitlements machine. As a day-to-day operation, it devotes more attention and resources to the public transfer of money, goods and services to individual citizens than to any other objective, spending