Replies

Well I was the same way when in college cousin Mike!

I became a flaming liberal and was convinced I was too cool for school.

I’d argue it’s a normal part of life.....BUT....we do keep packing those schools with fake Indian maidens like Elizabeth Warren and such until that’s all the college students know.

The solution is for more conservative....read NORMAL....people to become college professors. They pay real well I hear.

I remember when I got my first lesson in life. It was during the presidency of the wonderful Jimmy Carter, worst president before today and forever in the future.

The interest on houses rose so high that there was no way I would ever be able to sell the house I lived in or buy something better. It was a nice enough place but small. I wanted larger, perhaps children someday.

So I stood out in the small backyard and shrugged. Well at least I got THIS house, something a whole lot of people my age at the time did not have.

Then I got mad. And let’s not forget sitting in huge gas lines in the morning because I had to get to work to pay for that house. Oh, and the Iranian hostage crisis, when I was actually dating a real Persian, ask me about it sometime.

Jimmy Carter.

Ronald Reagan came along and I’d never be a stupid liberal again.

Oh, and the Iranian hostage crisis, when I was actually dating a real Persian, ask me about it sometime.

I was posted two years in Iran including being in our Embassy in Tehran when it was overrun the first time on February 14, 1979. We were hostages for a few hours in a bullet ridden Embassy surrounded by 10,000 angry Iranians until the Iranian FM, Yazdi, secured our release. Ask me about it sometime.

Well I was the same way when in college cousin Mike! I became a flaming liberal and was convinced I was too cool for school.

Most of us were "liberal" in those days. Of course "liberal" had an entirely different meaning compared to what liberals profess today. JFK would be considered a moderate conservative today. Different country, different demographics.

Census: 49% of Americans Get Gov’t Benefits; 82M in Households on Medicaid

In the fourth quarter of 2011, 49.2 percent of Americans received benefits from one or more government programs, according to data released Tuesday by the Census Bureau.

In total, the Census Bureau estimated, 151,014,000 Americans out of a population then estimated to be 306,804,000 received benefits from one or more government programs during the last three months of 2011. Those 151,014,000 beneficiaries equaled 49.2 percent of the population.

This included 82,457,000 people--or 26.9 percent of the population--who lived in households in which one or more people received Medicaid benefits.

Also among the 151,014,000 who received benefits from one or more government programs during that period: 49,901,000 who collected Social Security; 49,073,000 who got food stamps; 46,440,000 on Medicare; 23,228,000 in the Women, Infants and Children program, 20,223,000 getting Supplemental Security Income;13,433,000 who lived in public or subsidized rental housing; 5,098,000 who got unemployment; 3,178,000 who got veterans' benefits; and 364,000 who got railroad retirement benefits.