Posted on 01/22/2015 1:22:47 PM PST by Brad from Tennessee
My eyes water.
There is no overstating the evil of the welfare state in destroying humanity.
And everyone will gladly keep their hands in the Treasury all the way down to collapse without batting an eyelash.
“Progressive” is a fraud. Call them socialists, communists or Marxists. As bad as “climate change”
It started with lowering the import tariffs back in the 60’s. We’ve been offshoring lots of industries ever since. And now it’s weakened the economy to the point that everyone is seeking out welfare to survive.
It started with lowering the import tariffs back in the 60’s. We’ve been offshoring lots of industries ever since. And now it’s weakened the economy to the point that everyone is seeking out welfare to survive.
All this was by design and done on purpose.
LBJ and democrats purposely set in place the destruction of freedom and Capitalism and they introduced the Welfare State complete with Socialist goals and ideas.
Ask yourself - where/how does the the Left/Progressive US Government get the money to support this?
And don’t say TAXES. Because the government only collects enough total revenue to fund entitlements, nothing else.
You can have open immigration or you can have a welfare state, but you can’t have both for very long.
Regressive control-freaks.
And also in 1965 the change in the nation’s immigration
laws.
The high taxes and increasing public spending in the 50s were the start of it; that drove manufacturing jobs out of many big cities. Dropping tariffs while adding Medicare and the welfare state really compounded that pre-existing problem.
BTW, the first VWs were imported to the US in 1949.
The country will bankrupt itself. It doesn’t work to punish success and reward failure.
My MIL said of the SotU speech - “he’s such a nice man”.
As in, he is “going to give” a lot of stuff to people, and that makes her feel good about herself.
I heard her say that and could just feel myself “darken”.
I was shouting inside “HE’S DESTROYING THE COUNTRY FOR YOUR GRANDKIDS AND YOU FEEL GOOD ABOUT IT!”
As a white, Christian, heterosexual, conservative male in my 40’s am i eligible to collect?
Size of the economy in the 60’s versus now?
Article V. There is no substitute.
In a time of serious national emergency, many of these nanny-state dependents will begin to starve.
The enemy will appeal to them directly, telling them that if they help defeat the US they’ll be taken care of later.
That will create a fifth column consisting of roughly one-third of the total population to make mayhem from the behind the lines.
That’s a terrifying possibility. Now they are largely stupid, lazy, and unhealthy which might mitigate their usefulness a bit. But still scary.
That's true. Their ineptitude will result in the plot being unmasked quickly, which might in turn result in a terrible backlash or pogrom against these populations in general, without regard to the nuances or individual leanings.
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