Well, I think the number is considerably lower given the fact that something people pay for themselves is not really a benefit. Social Security, Medicare, Unemployment, RR retirement, VA, all paid for, or at least earned in the case of the VA, by the people themselves. You wannna' talk public aid, food stamps, housing, welfare, those are government provided benefits taken from taxpayer dollars, and should be heavily regulated. This is how the republicans lose the argument about what is and isn't government aid. When they mix welfare, food stamps, public aid and then social security, medicare, VA, unemployment into the same lump, they lose people like me. One group is certainly aid, the other is earned and paid for.