Posted on 09/19/2009 6:23:24 PM PDT by T.L.Sink
[On Sept. 16th Heritage scholar Robert Rector appeared on the Lou Dobbs Show and outlined the shocking results of his latest research about how Obama is rushing us into the complete welfare state.] Welfare or aid to poor and low-income persons is now the third most expensive government function. Its costs rank above spending on national defense. Welfare spending has grown enormously since Lyndon Johnson launched the War on Poverty. In his first two years in office, Obama will increase annual welfare spending by ONE-THIRD from $522 billion to $697 billion. After adjusting for inflation, this increase is two and a half times greater than ANY previous increase in federal welfare spending IN U.S. HISTORY. While campaigning, Obama lamented that "the war in Iraq is costing each household about $100 per month." Applying the same standard reveals that welfare spending will cost each household $560 per month in 2009 and $638 per month in 2010. Obama's increases in welfare are permanent expansions of the welfare state, NOT temporary increases in response to the current recession.
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Issue resolved. ; )
I’d sure love to have that $693 per month back to pay for the welfare of my family! I’m so sick of paying for other slackers and ne’er do wells.
CLOWARD PRIVEN STRATEGY, overwhelm government until it collapses! Look it up, they tested it in NYC. Same radicals bigger prize. The enemy within, only some don’t want to believe it, they think zero will turn around one day and do the right thing! WRONG! accept it and lets move forward
12 times the amount of the stimulus?
the continuing sage of the democrat plantation...
eleanor roosevelt talks blacks onto the plantation...
lbj’s great society...
who wouldn’t want to steal into the u.s. illegally,
free food stamps, health care...
Well, no politicians are stopping him on this extravaganza.
Haven’t heard an enormous outcry. This will ruin many large to medium sized cities, as those wanting all these goodies come in. WHY WORK???
The goal of the Democrat Party is to steal money from their hard working political opponents and give it to people who refuse to work. The only function these people need to perform in exchange for this money is to vote for Democrats, preferable more than once per election.
why work is right! especially when they can sit around all day on their TCBE lazy fat asses and play with the x-box, smoke that crack crap and watch DOPErah....
Nice way of buying votes from those who pay nothing! They get to vote on what YOU pay.
The only people Obama cares about are his billionaire banking buddies on wallstreet who he gave trillions to and the welfare class which he wants to drive us all into. If you make anywhere from 40,000$ to 1,000,000 he wants to punish you and make you pay for the welfare state. He certainly doesn’t care about the majority of people or the middle class.
Got slavery?
Sure takes”promoting the general welfare”seriously
I don’t think it is really permanent. It will end when the creditors decide to recognize that the government is bankrupt.
How about changing our income tax laws to encourage personal savings and capital investment staying in the USA? That way, we can bring back the estimated US$14 to US$19 TRILLION in American-owned liquid assets sent out of the country to offshore financial centers using tax loopholes and lost to the cash-only undergound economy, all in the name of tax avoidance. That much liquidity coming back to the American financial system under better tax circumstances would provide a GIGANTIC base of real assets to fuel a new economic boom, one the relies far less on debt financing.
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From all reports, that’s what we’re doing. Dick Morris and others have had some great articles on how inflation in the next few years will wipe us all out!
Right - and we wonder why more and more people think it’s not worth working? It’s human nature - if YOU work to pay my bills, YOU are the sucker and I’m the smart one!
Good point. “overwhelm the government until it collapses” sounds to me like it’s right out of Saul Alinsky’s “Rules for Radicals.” And that’s what’s destroying us!
Blacks have always been on the Democratic Party plantation. But now their new overseer is a black slave-driver! Yes, massa Obama! Ha! Ha! The ironies of history!
Cartoon worth a thousand words!
Exactly right - and throughout history that reality has lead to the decline and ruin of more than one democratic republic!
Great pun (intended)!
I’m not so optimistic. Our major creditor (China) has already told us that since we can’t even be good capitalists they’re not going to be suckers and keep buying our Treasuries. They don’t intend to go down with a sinking ship! In fact, when Geithner was over there on his knees begging for credit the Chicomms told him that. Get your ship in order soon - or else!
“Many a truth is said in jest!” - Shakespeare
I think that makes complete economic and common sense - which is why the liberals won’t do it!
If we just gave the money as simple cash benefits, the "poor" would be instantly "rich". (Even at current spending levels, it would put them well above median income.)
This is unassailable proof that the statists' "war on poverty" is not about ending poverty. They could already do that, easily. It is and always was about growing the State and State power at the expense of the people's liberty.
Liberals and common sense are mutually exclusive things, in my humble opinion.
Instead of increasing it welfare should be eliminated 100%!!!
I think you’re exactly right. It’s a classic example of a huge partisan bureaucracy that has as it’s end not the welfare of individuals, but the belief that the omnipotent Orwellian State should dominate the social and economic order - for those who are incapable of recognizing what’s in their own and society’s best interests. As such, it’s totally at odds with the sense of individual freedom and responsibility that made the nation great. In other words, “we know best, not you.”
When we look at what’s happening it’s to deny that!
The liberals are not only expanding welfare but have it on their agenda to ELIMINATE the welfare reform measures of the Republican Congress in the 90’s.
Since the early sixties we have spent $13 trillion, and poverty has not changed one bit. The myth of poverty solving goes on and on. The money funds the continuance of poverty for sure. What a divestment of, as yet, unearned tax treasure.
“Sixteen tons and what do you get
Ten more trillion dumped on your back
Break more ground, haul it all out
Day and night labors’ what it’s about”
True - the whole problem stems from the fact that liberals a la Obama are only concerned with the REDISTRIBUTION of wealth and never the CREATION of wealth. We’re seeing the results of that policy more and more every day. That brings me to once again reiterating one of my favorite quotes from Margaret Thatcher: “Socialism always fails because ultimately it runs out of other people’s money.”
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