Neil mitt romney was right. Here this week. Welcome, everybody. 128 million americans receive benefits in 2011. That is more than the entire population of japan. Our government is getting bigger and faster. Our government is up. Following this trajectory, it means half of americans receiving goodies, the folks of who put this study together means two out of every five americans receive some form of assistance from at least one federal government progm. Many of those same folks begs the obvious question. And why are they getting them and why are we paying for them . There are a lot fewer of us paying in than those taking out. And turns other payments to people like we know, maybe even us, and it is behind. It would be 70 of the entire federal government outlay. Outlayto people and what we have done in this report is went through the data using u. S. Census data. This is from the march supplement of 2011. And we have identified programs that send money to people. So if you get food stamp