Posted on 10/27/2013 5:41:42 AM PDT by IChing
Trick or treat!! The word, according to Neil Cavuto, is that the gazillions of food stamp recipients across the land are to have their “benefits” reduced as of November 1st, and that the Department of Homeland Security is gearing up for widespread riots.
Such wonders abound in our neo-socialist dystopia of “hope & change.” For the past several years, the Obama administration has aggressively sought to solidify and expand the democrat party’s grip on power by encouraging as many people as they possibly can to sign up for food stamps and other government programs, to make dependency on government a way of life for more and more generations of future voters. For most readers, this is by now an elementary fact of political life.
Problem is, the free-lunch tree is being stripped of goodies very quickly…
Remember that story from about a month ago, where the socialist regime in Venezuela was stationing armed troops inside toilet paper factories, in order to enforce production and distribution quotas, due to severe shortages resulting from price controls? Seems that centrally-planned economies can never satisfy human demands for goods and services, no matter how many times central planning is tried; nor does it matter who is doing the planning.
Government’s proper role is not to feed & take care of people, nor could it do so adequately even if that was its job. Instead, government should promote the general welfare by helping to create conditions which allow people to prosper in freedom–chiefly, by protecting individual rights, especially property rights.
To repeat a quote often attributed to our country’s first president, George Washington(a man who knew a little something about the proper role of limited government–he refused the suggestion by some that he be crowned king of the new nation of America, and rebuked those who suggested it): “Government is not reason, it is not eloquence–it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master; never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action.”
Today, we are “evolving” into more and more of a democracy, rather than the republic once cherished by those who fought so long and hard for liberty. Increasingly, the masses of people can simply vote themselves less personal responsibility, and more of the property produced by others, by electing democrats to use the force of government to redistribute goods. How much longer do you suppose before stuff here is inadequately produced at gunpoint, like in Venezuela?
Eminent black economist Walter Williams points out that during the time when chattel slavery was legal on this continent, there was (in addition to the usual plantation-bound, field hand arrangement) a sort of journeyman category of skilled slaves who actually lived rather independently from their owners. They plied their particular specialized trades according to their own comings and goings, and often had families and homes separate from their masters; however, the extent of their being slaves in bondage was that their masters still owned them, and owned what they produced. Their earnings were turned over to their masters, who allowed them to keep enough to maintain their separate livelihoods. If they tried to evade this relatively liberal arrangement in any way, they could be legally dealt with, and harshly, their owners resorting to bounties and whatnot if necessary.
Compare such a category of chattel slave of yesteryear with the taxpayer of today–is there really that much difference?
The more skilled and productive the taxpayer, the more of his or her product that the voting democrat masters seize, leaving him or her (if the taxpaying slave happens to be very resourceful) enough to enjoy a tidy or even splendiferous separate existence, yes, but the arrangement really is no different in essential character. We also have some very wealthy and highly skilled slaves today, owned by a multitude of democrat voters helping themselves to upwards of half of what the slaves produce.
So all of this can just continue on indefinitely, right? No?
You mean to tell me the takers are vastly out-breeding and out-voting the makers? You’re saying the makers are becoming disillusioned and discouraged?
Yes indeedy, an Investor’s Business Daily headline from yesterday reads: “Welfare, Not Full-Time Work, Is Now America’s No. 1 Occupation.”
Trick or treat!!
http://clashdaily.com/2013/10/food-stamp-rebellion-neil-cavutonovember-1st-iffy-kind-day-hell-breaks-loose-day/
Someone poke hubrisgunner and alert him for duty.
I’m here. Thanks for not pinging people when you mention them.
You have the 7th sense- the ability to detect blog pimpin from afar
Struggling U.S. Families Threatened by Food Stamp Cuts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3080434/posts
EBT cards and free stuff
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3079954/posts
Likewise self promotion.
Who would have thought we would have black plantation owners
bttt
Actually, Itchy.. Cavuto's segment was NOT on your happy little blog. It was on Fox.
You've linked (dead link, dumbass) to your little blog's COVERAGE of the segment.
Here's the link to the Youtube video some blogger with your outfit stole and embedded:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WgM_Ac4Evsw
Bad Itchy!
The Moochers and the Looters (govt workers) will always outnumber and outvote the Producers, sucking them dry like parasites until the host organism collapses and dies. That’s where we are heading today.
Another manufactured crisis. First, they spend 6 years getting as many people on the dole, then they pull the rug out deliberately.
Nobel Prize-winner hubrisgunner, to the rescue again against the evil forces of IChing and non-sharia compliant postings!
You referred to me in your first post without pinging me, in hopes that you could take a shot at my back.
Didn't want me to notice your cowardly sniping.
Well, that crap didn't seem to work out.
Now you're whining. Suck it up, buttercup.
Try reading what I actually typed.
One thing is true - 85-90 US Senators, and almost all Members of Congress, are terrified of riots if they slow down the rate of increase in free s*** from you and me, never mind reduce it.
This is the ONLY basis for most domestic policy decisions they make.
Some bullshit about sharia-compliant postings?
What wisdom was I supposed to glean from that?
Skimmed over it as a weak attempt at an insult. Was there some deeper meaning to it?
Anyway, since you invoked my name in your first post, you have no room to complain about my presence on the thread.
Kinda sucks when you find out you’re the horse in Animal Farm!
I was referring to my first post. You lied about what it said.
I can verify this. As a volunteer triage interviewer at a local food bank, I see the food stamp info from our clients. Every one shows a decline for November. A good thing.
IChing and humblegunner, how 'bout taking your high school spat to FReepmail and quit cluttering up the thread?
Democrats new slogan
Slavery- It’s not just for Blacks anymore.
I was referring to my first post. You lied about what it said.
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As a basically disinterested 3rd party, I took your first post as a shot at humblegunner also. Tagging someone as a possessor of Hubris is not a complement—it’s much more a shot.
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