Posted on 11/01/2014 9:57:04 AM PDT by John Semmens
In remarks this week, former President Bill Clinton denounced GOP attempts to "cash-in" on people's "misery" under Democratic policies and programs for "political gain."
"Republicans want voters to focus on the lack of economic growth and the huge number of people who can't get jobs since Democrats took control of the federal government," Clinton complained. "They want voters to overlook the flip side of this coin. Expansion of benefit programs have made work unnecessary for a growing segment of the population. The increased amount of leisure time our policies have made possible doesn't show up in the statistics Republicans like to cite."
Clinton expressed a hope that "the outmoded 'work ethic' of previous generations will be seen for what it really is—a sentence to 'hard labor' for minimal profit. Once voters realize that there is no shame in living a life free from drudgery, that their needs can be easily met through the generosity of government, they'll come to their senses and vote Democrat. Ideally, this will happen sooner rather than later."
While the former president exuded a barely concealed pessimism about this year's elections, he was far more optimistic about 2016 "when the albatross of the 'Obama brand' is removed from around the neck of the Democratic Party. The same policies under a more competent Democratic leadership will, I think, be just the ticket for success at the polls two years from now."
In related news, the New Mexico Center for Law and Poverty has filed suit to block a state law that would require childless adults to work, search for a job, or participate in community service or job training in order to qualify for government food stamps. Center Director Kim Posich insists that "the work requirement is the very same 'involuntary servitude' that was outlawed by the 13th Amendment to the US Constitution. If people don't want to work that is their unalienable right. For the government to threaten to withhold subsistence as a method of coercing them to work is extortion, pure and simple."
if you missed any of this week's other semi-news/semi-satire posts you can find them at...
http://www.freedomsphoenix.com/Opinion/165741-2014-10-31-semi-news-a-satire-of-recent-news-november-2-2014.htm
LOL! The closer we get to the elections, the more absurdities we see going on out there. Liberals are loons.
Wait a minute, if it is completely true, how can it be satire?
We know they’d say it if they could get away with it.
getting harder to parody them
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