If he lost, America won, if not we lost.
Posted on 07/23/2014 8:16:00 AM PDT by Kaslin
Excuse me, but what’s that fella got laying out on that anvil?
LOL I’ll have to ask my offspring, she’s the Boilermaker in the family.
Of course you’re only joking. When work requirements were active, the people who left welfare went on permanent Disability—an even worse option. Then Obama gutted the reforms, but the lesson had been learned. The Disability rolls have exploded, & once on you can never be removed. A perfect example of DC ‘fixing’ a problem by making it 100x worse.
He voted yes on the Paul Ryan budget capitulation bill along with John Lewis and Hank Johnson IIRC. real conservative.
Well lets see how Perdue holds up. My bar of expectancy for him is so low he won’t have a hard time impressing me.
We agree.
Welfare Reform was effective for almost a decade. The disability gambit took off after Zero took over. It took the Republicans booting their control of the government to enable the left to undo the improvement.
I don’t know what world you live in. I live in the real world. Yes, I vividly remember the brief euphoria of ‘welfare reform’ ‘working’. Conservatives were so happy about it. But all the while the permanent disability rolls were expanding. Finally people started to notice. The racket has merely changed venues. A small percentage of welfare recipients went to work, but a far larger number learned to game the permanent disability system. It has been steadily expanding ever since. So the big problem DC ‘fixed’, according to you, has resulted in skyrocketing dependency rolls.
& you call that a success.
This is just a spin job. Back it up with time series data.
How about this. I asked you to name one serious problem the USA has faced over the past 22 yrs that DC has fixed. You said welfare. Another term for welfare is ‘government dependence’. Today government dependence is at all time, historic, epidemic, catastrophic, economy-crushing/killing levels. That is my exact point. When DC ‘fixes’ something, the problem ends up being a 1000x worse.
Rove’s candidate, Jack Kingston, lost:
‘“Kingston’s largest backer, who has pumped nearly $3 million into Kingston TV ads is 100% openly pro-amnesty,” the ad says, referring to Kingston’s support from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.
The U.S. Chamber has been a fervent advocate for amnesty, desirable of low labor costs available from hiring illegal aliens, albeit at the expense of American workers. In December the U.S. Chamber announced that they’d formed a big-moneyed coalition with establishment Republican Karl Rove to join Democrats in attacking conservative Tea Party candidates who are against crony capitalism, but who support free markets.’
I have not seen any “Tea Party” comments about Perdue; was he considered one of the TP candidates, or just a GOPe alternative?
Amen! As in part two of my tagline...
In addition, it should be nearly impossible to exchange political donations for favorable legislative treatment. All donations should be anonymous; you can't sell influence if you don't know who is buying.
I've heard some say that all donors and recipients should be publicly identified, so everyone knows who is backing who and why. That would help if two thirds to three quarters of the populace was not too engrossed in American Idle or what celebrity outdanced the other celebrities to notice, and if the lamestream media would fairly and accurately cover that news. but you know neither will change.
You should have the right to donate any amount to anyone you want; that is freedom. But you should not be able to demand certain result from them in exchange; that is criminal. < /rant >
Perdue was not TEA party. He was just the GOPe alternative.
As for your rant, excellent!! Five stars+. There is so much that needs to change. Buying political influence has reached such proportions that our congresspeople no longer listen to or care what the constituents want. They are, as Rush put it, governing against the will of the people. Amazingly, they just keep on getting away with it.
The ‘getting away with it’ is the part that has to change. We the people have ALL the power; we just seldom recognize it & rarely use it. If, in every cycle, we voted 99 percent of the incumbents out [personally, I’d want people like Jeff Sessions to stay; he is a national treasure] we’d get dramatic results after just one cycle. The hacks that remained would be scared witless. Whatever we wanted, we’d get in a heartbeat.
But we just keep sending the incumbents back. Then some are surprised that the problems just keep getting exponentially worse. Duh. Things have got to change. We are the ones who can do it. Let’s hope & pray for a major house cleaning SOON.
From your keyboard to God’s ears!
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