Posted on 01/16/2016 1:23:34 PM PST by John Semmens
Since President Obama took office the number of able-bodied-without-dependents who are receiving government food subsidies has soared by 370%. This increase in participation by persons who in another era would have been expected to fend for themselves was hailed as "great progress on the President's goal of transforming America," by Secretary of Health and Human Services Sylvia Burwell. "Relieved of the burden of feeding themselves, these individuals are free to pursue goals higher on Maslow's hierarchy of needs."
One of the favorite "higher goals" of this segment of the population is smoking. Fully 50% of the subsidized beneficiaries are smokers and spend about $111 per month on the habit.
Unfazed by the food subsidy's enabling recipients to indulge in unhealthy behavior, Burwell boasted that "we also have a vigorous anti-smoking educational campaign to try to offset this unfortunate byproduct of what everyone recognizes as an essential humanitarian undertaking. And if our education efforts fail, fiscal hawks ought to appreciate the budgetary advantages of earlier mortality among those who do smoke."
if you missed any of this week's other semi-news/semi-satire posts you can find them at...
http://azconservative.org/2016/01/16/ny-dems-demand-conservatives-leave-state/
Its not satire, its reality
Reminds me of the line in The Sopranos when Meadow extols the wonderfulness of being a Columbia student working for free in some kind of free legal clinic that she had helped four crack mothers regain their crack babies from foster care.
is that percentage number really true?
that’s not even communism. communists barely gave food to workers
in fact, i dont recall in HISTORY giving food and money to the masses for doing nothing!!
not in 5000 years of history.
liberal and communist are not one and the same.
in some ways, liberals are worse.
at least under communism, the pain is spread evenly, with liberals, it put on the back of workers.
I believe it was common in 2nd-3rd Century Rome.
i was thinking MAYBE Rome.
at the end. which scares me.
i wonder why they did it. to prevent an uprising/
% is true
Romans gave bread & circuses to unemployed masses in the city.
we dont even get the circuses lol!
unless you include congress and the pres.
I think taxpayer subsidized sports stadiums are our “circuses.”
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