Conservative Myth: Whites do not depend on welfare

If your job is not essential you are on welfare

One of favorite auto-fellatory memes of CONservatism is:

“Most whites do not depend on government welfare, unlike those non-whites”

Some even go so far as to claim that non-whites would die if ‘welfare was canceled’. But is this meme true? Superficially, non-whites are indeed more likely to be on OVERT welfare. But such overt welfare makes a very small percentage of the true extent of government welfare.

Let me explain..

Do you work for any government department- federal, state, local, authority, agency, non-profit or government-funded employer (university, colleges, schools)? Is your job truly essential? Unless your job is truly essential- you are on welfare.

Do you have a small business or contract business that depends on government spending or the income of the above mentioned groups? Are you then not dependent on welfare?

Do you run or are employed by a medium or large business? Is the business dependent on government contracts, rules, regulation, favorable treatment, tax cuts, giveaways by local governments or otherwise preferential treatment? Sounds like welfare, doesn’t it?

Are you a member of any professional organization that operates like a cartel, with the assistance of the government to restrict competition? By this definition professions as diverse as doctors, realtors and longshoremen who depend on anti-competitive legislation are on welfare.

So, how many of you are not on welfare? Just because it is not called welfare does not make it so.