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Posted on 04/22/2012 2:17:58 PM PDT by daniel1212
That looks like the Tea Party’s creed!!! That’s beautiful!!!
the dirty little secret is that you can get on disability and collect more per month than if you waited till age 65...IT PAYS BIG TIME!
As a nurse, I saw it ALL the time in the hospital. People would have perhaps something wrong with their pinky finger ...and would, therefore, “need” to on disability.
It’s the New Welfare.
And it wasn’t just African Americans, believe me. All races, all genders, all types, and ALL ages, young and old. In fact, more young than old from what I could see.
I mean, come on — why work?
A society that encourages people to be useless isn’t doing them a favor...
Your input as a nurse is a strong testimony to the problem.
God gave Adam some work to maintain from the beginning, and ordained if one will not work -will not be productive - then neither should he eat, while normally charity is done locally by those who know you, and are willing to personally share and sacrifice to help - not by impersonal checks sent by others who are eager to spend the money they took from others.
Aw, - - - , shucks.
Or when they can’t work while being addicted to drugs...
Abundance of sources here on Poverty and Dependency in America: http://www.akdart.com/poverty.html
E Pluribus Own’em.
USDA Spends $5 Mil To Recruit Food-Stamp Recipients. The number of food-stamp recipients has skyrocketed in the last few years yet the Obama Administration keeps wasting millions of taxpayer dollars to recruit more participants in the name of eradicating “food insecure households.” The latest publicly-financed campaign to boost the food-stamp rolls — officially known as Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program or SNAP — was announced this month by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the agency that administers it. The USDA is dedicating $5 million this year to “improve access to and increase participation in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program.”
State Gets $5 Mil Bonus For Food Stamp Sign Up. In its quest to promote taxpayer-funded entitlement programs, the Obama Administration has actually rewarded one state with a $5 million bonus for its efficiency in adding food-stamp recipients to already bulging rolls. It’s part of the administration’s campaign to eradicate “food insecure households” by improving access and increasing participation in the government’s Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP). Incidentally, the program was recently changed to SNAP to eliminate the stigma that comes with a name like food stamps.
New Tax Math: Single Moms + Big Brother. The wrong-headed welfare system started in the 1960s with Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society and his proclaimed war against poverty. The system should have been called the war against marriage. LBJ’s Great Society set up a grossly immoral system whereby millions of people were taught they had an “entitlement” to pick the pockets of law-abiding, taxpaying families if they met two conditions: They didn’t work, and they were not married to someone who did work. This destroyed the work ethic and subsidized illegitimacy by giving single moms money and scores of benefits, such as welfare, food stamps, Medicaid, housing, utilities, WIC and commodities.
Fraudulent tax returns surge 181%. The IRS identified 335,341 tax returns claiming $1.9 billion in fraudulent refunds as of March 4, 2011, according to the findings of an audit conducted by the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration. ... The Earned Income Tax Credit, aimed at helping lower-income taxpayers, has been a large source of fraud, with people falsely lowering their income to qualify or claiming children they don’t have. The IRS estimates that 23% to 28% of EITC credits are wrongfully paid to Americans every year, totaling $11 to $13 billion.
Welfare in a Bad Way. What most Americans identify as government “welfare” are payments to single mothers, food stamps and (perhaps) Medicaid, the federal-state health insurance program for the poor. But that’s not the half of it. Since 1960, government has changed radically. Then, 52 percent of federal spending went for defense, 26 percent for “payments for individuals” — the welfare state. By 2008, 61 percent consisted of “payments for individuals,” 21 percent for defense. Social Security and Medicare — programs for the elderly — represented the biggest share: $1 trillion in 2008.
The Myth that Liberals Care About the Poor: Almost every program the Left supports to “help” the poor in this country is surreptitiously designed to de-motivate them and keep them dependent on the government. The Left saps their will to work with welfare and food stamps, the Left reduces their income and puts them out of jobs by encouraging illegal aliens to enter the country, and the Left fights voucher programs that would allow poverty-stricken students to go to the same schools as the rich Americans. Liberals incessantly ramble on about how much they care about the poor — and they do, the same way a Venus Flytrap cares about a random bug that happens to fly into its maw.
Obama Will Spend More on Welfare in the Next Year Than Bush Spent on Entire Iraq War. As a candidate for president, Barack Obama decried the financial toll that the Iraq war was taking on the economy, but Obama’s proposed spending on welfare through 2010 will eclipse Bush’s war spending by more than $260 billion.
How Liberalism Exploits The Vulnerable. Not knowing that she was on camera, this “community organizer” gave away the dirtiest of the dirty secrets of the left. Herein lies the explanation of how and why major segments of America, particularly in urban areas, upon becoming increasingly liberal over the past several decades, have become more lawless, more hopeless, and more helpless. While claiming to “help the little guy,” liberalism has a vested interest in keeping the “little guy” oppressed and dependent. Only in such a state can he fulfill his intended role as a “resource” of the liberal machine.
Strange Facts about America’s ‘Poor’. Eighty percent of poor households have air conditioning. By contrast, in 1970, only 36 percent of the entire U.S. population enjoyed air conditioning. Fully 92 percent of poor households have a microwave; two-thirds have at least one DVD player and 70 percent have a VCR. Nearly 75 percent have a car or truck; 31 percent have two or more cars or trucks. Four out of five poor adults assert they were never hungry at any time in the prior year due to lack of money for food. Nearly two-thirds have cable or satellite television. Half have a personal computer; one in seven have two or more computers. More than half of poor families with children have a video game system such as Xbox or PlayStation. Just under half — 43 percent — have Internet access. A third have a widescreen plasma or LCD TV. One in every four has a digital video recorder such as TiVo.
America’s Ever Expanding Welfare Empire. America’s welfare state is not a principality. It is a vast empire bigger than the entire budgets of almost every other country in the world. Just one program, Medicaid, cost the federal government $275 billion in 2010, which is slated to rise to $451 billion by 2018. Counting state Medicaid expenditures, this one program cost taxpayers $425 billion in 2010, soaring to $800 billion by 2018. Under Obamacare, 85 million Americans will soon be on Medicaid, growing to nearly 100 million by 2021, according to the CBO.
Gov’t Welfare Widens The Wealth Gap. Starting in 1964, when President Johnson launched the War on Poverty, a well-intentioned crusade to end poverty, the U.S. has spent an estimated $16 trillion trying to help the less well-off. LBJ and other well-meaning Democratic politicians at the time also hoped that the burgeoning welfare state would make people more self-sufficient, a noble goal. It didn’t work. Today, some 44 million Americans are on food stamps. In 2007, it was 26 million. Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner recently boasted that U.S. issues more than 80 million checks a month. But while the U.S. has more than 70 means-tested welfare programs, the poverty rate today is higher than it was in the late 1960s.
Moocher Index
Go west, but not too far west, to find self-reliance. The graph [in this article] was plotted by Cato Institute’s Dan Mitchell from data assembled by the Center for Immigration Studies. The horizontal axis represents the percentage of non-poor residents of each state signed up for government assistance — in other words, income redistribution programs. Mitchell calls the measure the Moocher Index. ... Allow me to provide a few observations to assist you in seeing some staggering messages.
[#1] 6 of the top 10 (in fact, 4 of the top 5) states with the most moochers are in the Northeast.
[#2] 11 of the top 30 mooching states are on the East Coast.
[#3] Fully half of the top 20 mooching states are on either the East of West Coasts.
[#4] Half of the ten states with the lowest percentage of moochers are in the West, but not the West Coast.
Those 'programs' also keep the dependent voting democrat. If we can't get them to stop buying votes by destroying the weak, maybe we should do the same. Maybe vote a bill to give all conceal carry members of the NRA an extra $30,000 a year. If we played the dems game, I'm sure we could buy NRA voters for years...
Those 'programs' also keep the dependent voting for democrat. If we can't get dems to stop buying votes by destroying the weak, maybe we should do the same. Maybe vote a bill to give all conceal carry members of the NRA an extra $30,000 a year. If we played the dems game, I'm sure we could buy NRA voters for years...
If you wanted to destroy a society and a nation,
what methods would be more effective than those the left is using?
I submit - none.
I think you’re right.
Abundance of sources here on Poverty and Dependency in America: http://www.akdart.com/poverty.html
E Pluribus Own’em.
USDA Spends $5 Mil To Recruit Food-Stamp Recipients. The number of food-stamp recipients has skyrocketed in the last few years yet the Obama Administration keeps wasting millions of taxpayer dollars to recruit more participants in the name of eradicating “food insecure households.” The latest publicly-financed campaign to boost the food-stamp rolls — officially known as Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program or SNAP — was announced this month by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the agency that administers it. The USDA is dedicating $5 million this year to “improve access to and increase participation in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program.”
State Gets $5 Mil Bonus For Food Stamp Sign Up. In its quest to promote taxpayer-funded entitlement programs, the Obama Administration has actually rewarded one state with a $5 million bonus for its efficiency in adding food-stamp recipients to already bulging rolls. It’s part of the administration’s campaign to eradicate “food insecure households” by improving access and increasing participation in the government’s Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP). Incidentally, the program was recently changed to SNAP to eliminate the stigma that comes with a name like food stamps.
New Tax Math: Single Moms + Big Brother. The wrong-headed welfare system started in the 1960s with Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society and his proclaimed war against poverty. The system should have been called the war against marriage. LBJ’s Great Society set up a grossly immoral system whereby millions of people were taught they had an “entitlement” to pick the pockets of law-abiding, taxpaying families if they met two conditions: They didn’t work, and they were not married to someone who did work. This destroyed the work ethic and subsidized illegitimacy by giving single moms money and scores of benefits, such as welfare, food stamps, Medicaid, housing, utilities, WIC and commodities.
Fraudulent tax returns surge 181%. The IRS identified 335,341 tax returns claiming $1.9 billion in fraudulent refunds as of March 4, 2011, according to the findings of an audit conducted by the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration. ... The Earned Income Tax Credit, aimed at helping lower-income taxpayers, has been a large source of fraud, with people falsely lowering their income to qualify or claiming children they don’t have. The IRS estimates that 23% to 28% of EITC credits are wrongfully paid to Americans every year, totaling $11 to $13 billion.
Welfare in a Bad Way. What most Americans identify as government “welfare” are payments to single mothers, food stamps and (perhaps) Medicaid, the federal-state health insurance program for the poor. But that’s not the half of it. Since 1960, government has changed radically. Then, 52 percent of federal spending went for defense, 26 percent for “payments for individuals” — the welfare state. By 2008, 61 percent consisted of “payments for individuals,” 21 percent for defense. Social Security and Medicare — programs for the elderly — represented the biggest share: $1 trillion in 2008.
The Myth that Liberals Care About the Poor: Almost every program the Left supports to “help” the poor in this country is surreptitiously designed to de-motivate them and keep them dependent on the government. The Left saps their will to work with welfare and food stamps, the Left reduces their income and puts them out of jobs by encouraging illegal aliens to enter the country, and the Left fights voucher programs that would allow poverty-stricken students to go to the same schools as the rich Americans. Liberals incessantly ramble on about how much they care about the poor — and they do, the same way a Venus Flytrap cares about a random bug that happens to fly into its maw.
Obama Will Spend More on Welfare in the Next Year Than Bush Spent on Entire Iraq War. As a candidate for president, Barack Obama decried the financial toll that the Iraq war was taking on the economy, but Obama’s proposed spending on welfare through 2010 will eclipse Bush’s war spending by more than $260 billion.
How Liberalism Exploits The Vulnerable. Not knowing that she was on camera, this “community organizer” gave away the dirtiest of the dirty secrets of the left. Herein lies the explanation of how and why major segments of America, particularly in urban areas, upon becoming increasingly liberal over the past several decades, have become more lawless, more hopeless, and more helpless. While claiming to “help the little guy,” liberalism has a vested interest in keeping the “little guy” oppressed and dependent. Only in such a state can he fulfill his intended role as a “resource” of the liberal machine.
Strange Facts about America’s ‘Poor’. Eighty percent of poor households have air conditioning. By contrast, in 1970, only 36 percent of the entire U.S. population enjoyed air conditioning. Fully 92 percent of poor households have a microwave; two-thirds have at least one DVD player and 70 percent have a VCR. Nearly 75 percent have a car or truck; 31 percent have two or more cars or trucks. Four out of five poor adults assert they were never hungry at any time in the prior year due to lack of money for food. Nearly two-thirds have cable or satellite television. Half have a personal computer; one in seven have two or more computers. More than half of poor families with children have a video game system such as Xbox or PlayStation. Just under half — 43 percent — have Internet access. A third have a widescreen plasma or LCD TV. One in every four has a digital video recorder such as TiVo.
America’s Ever Expanding Welfare Empire. America’s welfare state is not a principality. It is a vast empire bigger than the entire budgets of almost every other country in the world. Just one program, Medicaid, cost the federal government $275 billion in 2010, which is slated to rise to $451 billion by 2018. Counting state Medicaid expenditures, this one program cost taxpayers $425 billion in 2010, soaring to $800 billion by 2018. Under Obamacare, 85 million Americans will soon be on Medicaid, growing to nearly 100 million by 2021, according to the CBO.
Gov’t Welfare Widens The Wealth Gap. Starting in 1964, when President Johnson launched the War on Poverty, a well-intentioned crusade to end poverty, the U.S. has spent an estimated $16 trillion trying to help the less well-off. LBJ and other well-meaning Democratic politicians at the time also hoped that the burgeoning welfare state would make people more self-sufficient, a noble goal. It didn’t work. Today, some 44 million Americans are on food stamps. In 2007, it was 26 million. Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner recently boasted that U.S. issues more than 80 million checks a month. But while the U.S. has more than 70 means-tested welfare programs, the poverty rate today is higher than it was in the late 1960s.
Moocher Index
Go west, but not too far west, to find self-reliance. The graph [in this article] was plotted by Cato Institute’s Dan Mitchell from data assembled by the Center for Immigration Studies. The horizontal axis represents the percentage of non-poor residents of each state signed up for government assistance — in other words, income redistribution programs. Mitchell calls the measure the Moocher Index. ... Allow me to provide a few observations to assist you in seeing some staggering messages.
[#1] 6 of the top 10 (in fact, 4 of the top 5) states with the most moochers are in the Northeast.
[#2] 11 of the top 30 mooching states are on the East Coast.
[#3] Fully half of the top 20 mooching states are on either the East of West Coasts.
[#4] Half of the ten states with the lowest percentage of moochers are in the West, but not the West Coast.
Excellent article! THANKS!
” - - - The Myth that Liberals Care About the Poor: Almost every program the Left supports to “help” the poor in this country - - - “
The Need to Help
Liberals are driven by a fierce need to help.
Liberals believe that rich people do NOT need help.
Liberals believe that poor people do need help.
So the sooner the Liberals can make the rich people poor,
The sooner the Liberals can help them.
I really do not think that liberals are driven by a fierce need to help, and overall do not do so sacrificially, but that they see the have nots as victims of a system that requires adherence to principals of earning, responsibility, stewardship, and rewards or penalization based upon these. And their “help” is that of taking from those who represent support of these principles to give those who are “victims,” in order to promote the overthrow of that system of rewards and their own exaltation as elites who are not to be questioned.
As stated in post #30, it all began with the devil seeking to “climb up some other way (Jn. 10:1) and “occupy” the seat of power, (Is. 14) and thus he later sought to instill a victim-entitlement mentality in Eve, that she was being treated unfairly, and that God should share the wealth of His knowledge and thus power, (Gn. 3) and therefore her rebellion, was justified, as the devil thinks his was.
Besides Communism, the hippie rebellion of the 60’s, in which students would take over administration buildings and reject God’s laws and attain paradise via drugs an support via abuse of the establishment, is the modern expression of this (although unlike in Eden, there was some failures of the “landowners” which failures the rebels would use and magnify in order to sell their rebellious fantasy and justify their lustful self exaltation).
Yet the ideology of the hippies was/is even arguably more fantastical than the Communism in the degree of its imagination that goods and services will flow without adherence to Divinely established principles. And actually on one level it more radically rejects many basic laws of social behavior (no marriage,sexual mores, child discipline, etc.). They seek a perpetual Woodstock, but it turns into Haight Asbury. They preach a Garden of Eden but without God, and the laws of God, esp. those which are necessary because of the Fall.
And as so many of those who bought that deception actually became part of the “establishment” by deceptively selling their fantasy, to a post-Christian America (in which blindness in part has happened), then they now seek to legislate their ideology which spawned in Hell, and which only somewhat achieved by the use of drugs and its music.
And as in Communism, the leadership that ends up replacing that which represents (even with its faulty men) adherence to God’s principles is far worse than what it replaced. And having begun in Hell, and seeking the devil’s will to be done, it sends a nation to Hell, having forgotten God. (Ps. 9:17).
” - - - in order to promote the overthrow of that system of rewards and their own exaltation as elites who are not to be questioned.”
I have taken the liberty of using your above quote to point out what I see as ambivalence on the part of the Counter Culture of The Left, (CCOTL).
In order to achieve their goals, the CCOTL MUST destroy all vestiges of resistance to what order that THEY want to impose on Society.
Their goal then would be to establish THEMSELVES as the sole authorities of Societal Mores, that must be obeyed without hesitation.
Hence, the ambivalence: they HATE the present system of order, that allows for freedom of speech, and at the same time LOVE their system of order which will deny freedom of speech.
All of us went through this phase of ambivalence as we left the nest. It is just part of changing from a child to an adult.
The CCOTL are still holding onto their security blankets of ambivalence, and few among them have the courage to discard the contradictory values of the CCOTL and join in supporting the fundamental values of this Republic.
The pendulum is swinging,
Which way will it go?
To the Left a little more,
Or will today’s voter’s say NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!?
We are increasingly a post Christian country, upon whom blindness in part is come, and is reflected in the voting. I think we are past the point of return as a unified country.
The elections make it increasingly believable how the whole world will one day worship the beast and his image, while the body of Christ, the born again remnant church, must focus on being the alternative to a decaying world.
And you like poems,
Freedom not Sodom!
There’s freedom in America, the land of the red white and blue;
but there still must be laws, things you just can’t do.
You can’t marry your sister, your brother, or the family pet;
a sheep, or a goat - at least not yet!
That how is it with homosexuality, what the Bible calls sodomy;
men lying with men as with women, is perversity!
That they’re not designed that way, tis easy to perceive,
but yielding to sinful desires, man is soon deceived.
A moral wrong is not a civil right; like the sin itself, that’s confusion;
calling evil good and exchanging light for darkness, is sure delusion!
History tells us where this will lead, from societies now in dust,
When a nation casts off the laws of God, and follows it’s own lusts.
Promoting a sin which sends one to Hell from an early grave,
dishonors God and robs man of the Life He gave.
There’s but one answer: the Risen Jesus gave Himself for our sins;
Repent and believe, then truly follow Him!
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