Posted on 02/02/2012 6:32:16 AM PST by Mr. K
It has frequently been said that if you wait long enough Mitt Romney will say something you like. It also applies for somethign you don't like.
The other day a big deal was made about his comment that he "doesn't care about the poor"
While it does give us a great chance to point out (yet again) the media bias by very easily demonstrating how out of context that statement is, the real context is disturbing in another way
If Mitt thinks the 'safety net' takes care of the poor, he is desperately and fatally wrong.!
These 'safety net' programs are THE SOURCE OF MOST OF OUR PROBLEMS!
They eat up a major portion of the budget and never 'help' the people they were intended to help, increase the size and scope and intrusion of the government into our entire lives, and bring down the best in the country for the benefit of the government class. (I bet you thought I was going to say benefit of 'The Poor' -no, they are the LEAST helped)
They are stocked with government employees whose usual workday consists of figuring out how to manipulate the union rules to their own financial benefit.
They forced families to depend on the government, and tore apart husbands and wives and families, by their policies. They suck up huge amounts of money, and the waste and fraud are incredible.
Let's take Welfare. By the governments own figures, it costs $100,000 to hand out $27,000 in Welfare.
$73,000 is wasted. That is a decent full-time salary.
That is the equivalent of one full-time government employee for every family on Welfare.
There used to be a joke about how big and bloated the Federal Bureau of Indian Affairs had gotten- The joke cartoon showed a man in the Indian Affairs office crying at his desk- another two employees are talking and one asks why the man is crying- and the other replies "His Indian died"
Private charities like churches are 85% efficient or more. We could cut the Welfare program in half, give that money to churches to take care of people- and be better off all around. The families would be helped by local people who know them instead of a governmet bureaucrat. And they might get a religious enlightenment too.
Does anyone remember Social Security "crazy checks"? If you can get you child to act odd enough (or even easier- get them diagnosed with ADHD) you can collect Social Security.
It is good that he knows the middle class is paying for all this, but this shows to me Mitt's complete lack of understanding that the fundamental problem facing the government is THE GOVERNMENT.
As Ronald Reagan once said: "The Government is not the solution to problems- usually it is the cause"
DO WHATEVER YOU CAN!
TEA Party March on GOP headquarters anyone?
Know what? I don't either. My guess is that 99% of the poor are that way because they made poor decisions along life's journey. In most cases, I think those decisions are early in life while they were in school. They saw little value to being educated and no one was there to correct that perception. If someone cannot earn a living because of a physical impairment of some kind, they should be helped. However, the direction of that help should be to teach them some kind of skill set that allows them to be self-sufficient. Politicians, on the other hand, want to give them my money to forever buy their votes. I'm more than a little tired of paying for someone else's poor decision making.
Seriously, not only is the cost to provide the services out of line, but all the fraud (collecting while working off the books or selling drugs, claiming extra kids, collecting under multiple IDs, etc.) probably triples the cost.
Conservatives please stop your damn complaining. I’m an ultra right wing conservative who left the GOP when Bush was still President. And if the GOP nominee in 2012 is Charles Manson I will vote for him because ANYONE is better than the POS Commie in the WH now.
This is a Spanish news article published the same day as Romney's comment.
Spanish Headline: Poverty trap for middle classes of Europe
"Unemployment has hit record levels in the EU, putting nearly a quarter of those Europeans who until now had a decent standard of living at risk of sliding into social exclusion. The phenomenon is undermining the EU’s strategies against poverty."
http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/1469391-poverty-trap-middle-classes-europe
I’m holding out hope that Mitt is a closet conservative.
There are currently 11.2 million adults collecting SS disability, double what it was in 1992. They collect an avg monthly benefit of 678.80. Total monthly payouts are close to $10 billion ($120B/year)
SSI payments to children: there are 1.2 million children under 18 getting SSI, total benefits $812M, avg monthly payment $601.
there you go, you know me well. I’m manipulated by the GOP. In short, you’re an idiot!
They took what Mtt said out of context for the first time this election. They did it to Newt countless times, like when he said “I’m going to be the nominee” and when he said he would “arrest judges he disagreed with.” Welcome to the party, pal.
By the way, your master Obama will lose in a landslide this November. I can’t wait
Dear God I hope so.
Funny thing is, I was NOT a huge Gingrich supporter UNTIL he said the “Arrest the judges” comment.
I’m all for that
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