Posted on 04/06/2016 7:01:38 AM PDT by Cyberman
Let's not be coy. There's a certain population in this country that expects unlimited government handouts despite its piggish unwillingness to work.
Don't tell me this is about their child-care responsibilities, or lack of access to transportation or education. Nonsense. These people simply don't want to work.
Ladies and gentlemen, meet the new welfare queens: your democratically elected U.S. legislators, the laziest, most do-nothing generation of federal politicians in decades.
Sure, they talk a big game about work ethic and personal responsibility.
With the stated goal of promoting personal responsibility, the House Republicans' 2017 budget proposes newly attaching work requirements to Medicaid, too. For the benefit of poor people, of course.
"Work not only provides a source of income and self-sufficiency, but also has been demonstrated as a valuable source of self-worth and dignity for individuals,” the budget resolution report reads...
Would that members of Congress were equally concerned about the self-worth, dignity and mental health of their do-nothing colleagues around Capitol Hill. These moochers and takers continue to receive taxpayer-funded paychecks and yet refuse to do their jobs.
Sure, U.S. senators and representatives are, technically speaking, employed. But it's hard to argue that they're working. By a range of measures, this Senate has accomplished the least of any Senate in decades.
The Supreme Court vacancy isn't the only judgeship it has refused to fill. Last year, the Senate confirmed just 11 federal judges, the fewest in any year since 1960, according to the Alliance for Justice.
A recent Congressional Research Service report likewise quantified how many other nominees the Senate has confirmed this Congress. It found that, as of February, confirmations for executive branch and other positions were at their lowest level since at least 1988, the earliest data available....
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
ABSOLUTELY! Hooray Catherine Rampell. Thanks for the post and YOUR comment, Cyberman.
tru dat
. . .except the author’s idea of “not working” means not passing programs pushed by the Left. OH NOES, if you want Food Stamps, you have to work, or show effort to work. . .
God forbid, the supposedly-Republican majority of both houses simply won’t rubber-stamp every last bit of Obama’s multiple agendas. . .
they only say this now because the republicans control both houses.
I agree with author’s contention that some of our elected representatives are “welfare queens” - but I disagree with her definition of what constitutes such a representative.
She defines them as congressmen who refuse to do everything Obama wants, who refuse to give him his Supreme Court confirmation, who dare to restrict government handouts with work requirements or cut some of the billions of dollars in social spending.
The writer claims she’s not being “coy” - but, that is exactly what she’s doing. This is a bogus liberal slam at conservatism.
The way I look at it, the less that Congress does, the better off we are.
Also the droves and droves of government paper pushers and beurocraps that work writing and enforcing regulations most of them nothing more than legalized theft by the government.
By a range of measures, this Senate has accomplished the least of any Senate in decades.
And I would DOUBLE their Salary if they did NOTHING AT ALL.
I’m perfectly capable of detesting them both, thank you.
The real welfare queens are the unelected, unaccountable bureaucrats, with their sinecures for life.
That’s why we need TERM LIMITS and CAMPAIGN FINANCE REFORM. If they could not become fabulously wealthy in office, only those who truly want to SERVE would bother to run for office.
Trust me, its BOTH
Exactly
Frequently, people who are engaged in some sort of undesirable behavior, try to convince others to engage in the exact same behavior to try and justify themselves. In this case, “welfare queen” politicians try and convince their constituents that being on welfare is a good or ok thing. Then both the politician welfare queen and the constituent who is on welfare can point at each other saying how they are both just fine being on welfare.
Republicans control squat, they are there for the perks, they don’t want actual responsibility, they are more than happy to play the role of the “Washington Generals.”
America can afford 525 people on extravagant welfare as legislators in DC. America CANNOT afford 150,000,000+ people on welfare.
Same here. I am wondering if some aren’t using our disaffection with the Republican Party, for not moving the conservative agenda, as a loophole to try to sway the weakminded to be disaffected with conservatism itself. Won’t work on me.
There’s something really wrong with these pols who grow rich and fat on capitol hill doing nothing good. Scum.
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