Posted on 02/03/2015 12:15:14 PM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
"The Des Moines Register reports on a conference call that Scott Walker, the Wisconsin governor who is all but certain to run for president, held with Republican activists in Iowa. The call contains some preliminary hints as to how the debate over what the GOP economic agenda should look like might unfold during the GOP primaries — which, in turn, could have ramifications for the 2016 general elections....
....If Walker agrees with the harsher Ryan formulation — one that holds overtones of Mitt Romney’s “47 percent” sneer — it suggests a direction that the arguments in the GOP primary might end up taking.
Right now, the Republican presidential candidates are all signaling that they will place the need to address inequality and poverty at the center of their campaigns. Marco Rubio’s new book attempts to speak directly to people’s economic struggles, and Jeb Bush has been making nice noises about how the economy has been disproportionately good to those at the top."....
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
I believe Reagan used the hammock analogy as well. Didn’t hurt him none.
One thing about Walker. If elected president, I’m sure one of the first things he’ll do is overturn JFK’s executive order granting government workers the right to unionize.
Jeb Bush has been making nice noises about how the economy has been disproportionately good to those at the top
This is how it works. All the corrupt media guys start their own body of work assassinating any strong GOP candidate with a little article here and there seeking to draw blood. The objective is two-fold cut enough times with many sources and hope the candidate dies, or cut and hope to hit an artery and cause the candidate mortal damage.
However it ends up, it is always the same method of attempted political assassination from the Left. As we all know, a Democrat candidate in never subjected to such treatment, Obama being the classic example of someone never fit to be president, yet assiduously protected by the corrupt MSM.
FTA:Polls have shown that Tea Party Republicans are far more likely than non-Tea Party-Republicans to believe that unemployment benefits make people less motivated to look for work and that government aid to the poor does more harm than good.
A basic knowledge of human behavior tells us that Tea Partiers are right. Statistics back this up. Out of 3 million jobs “created” last year, 1.8 million were people who ran out of unemployment benefits.
These people make me so mad. Yes, it matters how you organize society so you either encourage or discourage people from working and building personal wealth.
We have free everything from the government and less and less people working.
“Inequality” Screw them, the only possible economic “equality” comes from the bleakness of communism, and not even then.
In state and national parks, the rangers request that you refrain from feeding the animals because they will soon be unable to feed themselves. But the government INSISTS that people be addicted to government handouts to the point they lose the ability to care for themselves.
In a third world hell hole, poverty is due to the people at the top, in a free society most of the blame for poverty rightfully belongs to the individual.
The Dims always talk like our poor are in the same situation as the poor in zimbabwe, when they are not. Take any poor oppressed hard working african to the united states and soon they will no longer be poor even if they don’t take a dime of gubermint monies. Take the average american poor citizen to Zimbabwe and they will remain poor.
That is the main difference.
I think he can handle it. I think people are finally getting fed up.
Those of us who are paying for the hammocks are sick and tired of doing so. And I think that even a few of those who spent a few years lying in them until their benefits ran out have finally realized that they aren’t healthy.
America is ready for someone like Walker who will tell the truth and not pander. America is ready for someone like Walker who will FIGHT for what he believes in. America is ready for someone who doesn’t panic when attacked by the media. America is ready for someone who isn’t afraid of the PC police and the professional grievance industry.
Walker’s battles in Wisconsin will have prepared him well for a fight on the national level.
We all know that every GOP presidential candidate who is a real threat to defeat Hillary will get their record picked over with a fine tooth comb and of course the MSM is only too happy to lend a helping hand. No shock. We all know it’s going to happen. Notice how Jeb is getting a pass. Everybody knows Jeb would get clobbered by Hillary so of course the media hands off treatment for him. 2016 is going to be a landmark election the way 1980 was. I think Ted Cruz or Scott Walker will be our next president, and much like Reagan, they will have the massive chore of cleaning up a mess left by a Democratic predecessor. I know we’re all worried about the low information crowd but I also believe the vast majority of Americans are fed up with the direction of this country. We are not a pessimistic people by any means, and until the votes are counted 21 months from now, I feel strongly that the American people will do the right thing and Hillary will be vanquished to political oblivion, and we can take our country back from the leftist destroyers.
I certainly hope you are right. Cruz or Walker or nothing else for me. I am optimistic, but also realistic. I recall being stunned that Americans elected Bill Clinton, a known philanderer and a morally suspect person. I was stunned again in 2008, and then I figured out that Americans are equally part of the problem for reelecting the known disaster that is Obama.
The Left is lining up to attack and shut down any candidate that tells the country what they want to hear - the truth.
“..If any candidate could run a rigid campaign of polarization—aimed at winning as many white voters as possible—it’s Walker. His language is already there. In his Iowa speech, he touted voter-identification laws and portrayed disadvantage as a pure product of personal failure. “In America the opportunity is equal for each and every one of us but … the ultimate outcome is up to each and every one of us individually.”....
..“Washington is kind of this top-down, government knows best,” Walker said to an audience of about a half-dozen supporters and more than 50 members of the media who gathered just a block from the White House. “It’s a tired, old approach that hasn’t worked in the past and I don’t think will work in the future. What I see in the states and for the people outside of Washington is a craving for something new, something fresh.”
Walker, who is deep into preparations for an all-but-certain bid for the Oval Office, called for a “transfer of power” from Washington, D.C. to the states. He called the city “68 square miles surrounded by reality,” with six of the 10 richest counties in America, according to the median income. “We need to transfer power, power from our nation’s capital here in Washington back to the cities and states in this country, where the people, where the hardworking people in this country can actually hold their government accountable,” he said.
“That’s what Our American Revival is really about: Transferring that power from Washington back to the people,” he said, referencing the name of his new 527 organization that is laying the groundwork for his presidential bid.”..
http://time.com/3690123/scott-walker-comes-to-washington-to-bash-washington/
“CORONADO, Calif. — Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, addressing GOP officials gathered here for the Republican National Committee’s winter meeting, launched a fierce broadside Thursday night against former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, whom he described as as creature of a dysfunctional nation’s capitol.
“She lives in Washington. She works in Washington. She came to Washington through this president and his administration,” Walker said of Clinton, whom he described as the all-but-certain Democratic presidential nominee. “She was in Washington when she was a United States senator. She was in Washington when her husband was president of the United States. You look at everything that people dislike about Washington, and she embodies it.”....
http://www.politico.com/story/2015/01/scott-walker-hillary-clinton-2016-114314.html
Quite. They think they can achieve “equality” by averaging everyone’s wealth. Problem is, the numbers are not static when the forced averaging occurs: the high outliers, and to great degree across the board, will cut their productivity drastically. Result are far lower numbers, resulting in an average far lower than expected. Nobody above the line will want to continue such production when it will be taken away, and even those below the line will work less knowing they’ll get more without effort.
The people on the other side of the tracks were almost as backward as we were. Looking back I can see where the teachers and some others did look down on us. But we didn't realize it. In the end our side competed very well with the others in every category.
The one difference I see between us then and poor people today is in their pride. We and our parents would have been ashamed to be on assistance from the government. Poor people now are told that it is their right to take assistance from the government. They feel entitled to demand that food, clothing, transportation, utility bills, and anything else be provided to them. They see it as a victory to be provided for by the government. They seem to think that we are the unfortunate ones because we have to work for a living.
That sense of entitlement (that the government encourages) is what cripples people living on the dole. They feel like they are beating the system. Getting a job would be the system beating them.
Laziness should hurt. Stupidity should hurt more. Hunger is a great motivator. The welfare queens and kings need to be kicked out of their hammock and get their lazy asses to work. If you don’t want to work, skid row has plenty of room for you. My compassion meter was pegged long ago and seeing mob action for section 8 housing and hand outs for cash and food from MY tax dollars has left me sick and tired of seeing these ungrateful slobs.
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