Posted on 01/21/2013 4:48:32 PM PST by SkyPilot
President Obama defended the idea of entitlements like Medicare and Social Security in his second inaugural address Monday, arguing that these programs strengthen the nation and free Americans to "take the risks that make this country great."
"We reject the belief that America must choose between caring for the generation that built this country and investing in the generation that will build its future," Obama said. "For we remember the lessons of our past, when twilight years were spent in poverty, and parents of a child with a disability had nowhere to turn."
He continued: "We do not believe that in this country, freedom is reserved for the lucky, or happiness for the few. We recognize that no matter how responsibly we live our lives, any one of us, at any time, may face a job loss, or a sudden illness, or a home swept away in a terrible storm. The commitments we make to each other – through Medicare, and Medicaid, and Social Security – these things do not sap our initiative; they strengthen us. They do not make us a nation of takers; they free us to take the risks that make this country great."
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The king of devils is now in charge...soon the earth will know what that means.
People have their own issues to deal with and their own problems to solve. No mans need legitimately becomes another mans obligation. Using the law to attempt to legitimize larceny does diminish the larceny. These socialist schemers imagine themselves to be generous and caring because they are willing to give away others people’s money. With that money they bankroll a constituency to perpetuate their rule. I do not see a solution short of a massive display of armed resistance
I don’t consider myself a taker. I’m receiving Social Security, a program I’ve paid into for 50 years and am still paying into.
About all you can do is laugh. America is being taken down in a racist revolution. Powered by illegal “immigration”, and the republicans are sitting around worrying about being called racists.
Just think,a few years ago the little queer would have bringing us coffee.
Baraq is like that family in 2007 riding a wave of false prosperity based on maxxed out credit cards and helocs on a house with negative equity. Two leased luxury SUVs and a Mcmansion.
It’s all good until the bubble pops.
We reject the belief that America must choose between caring for the generation that built this country and investing in the generation that will build its future,” Obama said. “For we remember the lessons of our past, when twilight years were spent in poverty, and parents of a child with a disability had nowhere to turn.”
Yeah, well, that’s all well and good ...but most of the people we’re choosing to care for are neither the elderly or the disabled, but rather the able-bodied inner city dwellers, and illegals. Old people are gettin’ thrown under the BUS at warp speed.
Oh, and yeah — illegals ARE building everything ...taking construction and road jobs from Americans and pockeing the welfare cash they get, then sending it back to Mehico.
You’re hardly alone in viewing the SS program that way, but (1) it wasn’t designed as a purely investment based plan in the first place and (2) to the extent that it might have operated like an investment based plan, they squandered what was paid in and have to make the payments to you now out of taxes of people like me, who probably won’t ever see an actual SS.
Realize the huge value of the death panels.
They can do much to fix Baraq’s impending problem with SS and Medicare.
Slicing the average lifespan is a powerful tool.
Somebody will have to explain to me how that works because from my experience it works just the opposite.
In my experience most people are risk adverse; they would rather not take risk if they don’t have to.
I see risk takers for the most part falling in to two categories; those who by their very nature take risk and those who feel they must take risk to escape their circumstances.
They entitlement programs essentially insulates the great multitude from falling in to the second category.
And actually entitlement program for all intents and purposes traps people in their lowly circumstances because being naturally risk adverse they will stay in the lower class because trying to rise out of the entitlement class entails risk of loosing those benefits.
Obama, America's very own "Rocket Surgeon"
There is a third category, those who put risk in the context of faith in a God who wants people to do some things that they cannot necessarily calculate the results of.
Thanks SkyPilot.
The http://www.usdebtclock.org/ has recently been updated to show that the U.S. has exceeded it’s debt limit by over $46 Billion.
It also shows the actual employment vs. reported employment numbers.
He’s right.. It makes us a nation of people dependent on the King who buys their votes with entitlements. It was a HUGE mistake for the GOP to allow 0bama to ramp up the entitlement rolls for the past 4 years, unabated. HUGE mistake. This cannot be undone without massive civil unrest, so it will continue until America is no more and everyone becomes slaves for their pay.
Obama and the leftists who support him know that as well. They're telling the people what they want to hear as they slowly lead them to slavery. They have to get the guns in order to prevent an uprising when the pigs realize they've been pinned in and are being prepared for slaughter.
With all due respect, I believe you've missed the point. One of the most disgusting things about this President is that he wants the public to think his opponents see people like you and people like the guy with a Gucci hat and an iPhone buying steak at the checkout line with an EBT card (stole that last part from Iowahawk) as the same sort of person.
JFK was the lightweight in the WH back then. He’d blow Obama away.
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