There’s the difference, the democrats used to promise pie in the sky, by and by but now they demand it now and free.
She should get a letter of support from Moochelle.
The public debate we MUST have is who is “indigent” and needs our help and who must be expected to provide for their own needs. Socialism is the ideology that we each can live at the expense of everyone else. Not only does this violate the Commandments that forbid coveting and theft, but both Hayek and Mises prove (in different ways) that it is not a “sustainable” economic system, a concept the left otherwise loves to scold us about.
Putting aside how government social benefits originally justified to help the indigent have destroyed the charity-oriented social support network that functioned in this country since its founding, these benefits have been expanded and expanded. One study I read stated that for a family of four, in order for a wage-earner to provide the same standard of living, he would have to earn a wage of about $60k/year.
We have made not working pay so much that employers with lower skilled jobs must pay more in order to compete with free medical care, free housing, free utilities, free food, free school lunches and free cell phones. This is one factor in the dismal rate of labor force participation.
Apart from the broader liberty question, or more directly, how this fosters dependency, having government “benefits” that extend to such a large fraction of society means that government must become an economic predator on the shrinking portion that creates wealth. The larger government gets, the less economic wealth creation we will have. We are on the road to serfdom.
Government takes $100 from the half that has taxable income, borrows $40 from China and then offers a $90 “benefit” to everyone who qualifies. The first disqualifier of course is that your income is too high. But those who do qualify climb all over each other to make sure they get what they are “entitled” to. There is never any suggestion that the program is for those who are truly in need and when a person is not in need, even though their income is low, they should not apply.
But even States do this with federal programs. If the States would just say no, the pols in Washington would not be working day and night to find ways to make money flow back home. If States would decline to accept federal bucks, the federal deficit would be much smaller.
We are being enslaved with our own money and our own credit rating. Worse, we are enslaving our children like no previous generation ever has.
American hero. And in MA no less.
Eh. People who take welfare should be watched like hawks ... but I don’t think we need to go so far as to monitor their diets.
SnakeDoc
Even The Jeffersons finally only got a piece of the pie!
This EBT card thing is way out of hand and a huge expense for taxpayers. They use the cards to buy treats, cigarettes, lottery tickets, and then ask for cash in change so they can head off to casinos. Or, they sell the cards for cash. Yet, the gov’t can’t dish them out fast enough. In fact, they even were advertising for you to come and get one. An entitlement society under Obama? You bet!
Andrea Taber: the Tea Party’s Rosa Parks?
God bless her.
Businesswoman Andrea Taber obviously needs to spend some time in one of Comrade Obama’s re-education camps. A few years in the rice paddy under the guidance of Comrade Elizabeth Warren would inspire her to proper thinking more in line with the teachings of the state. For more information on the correct use of EBT cards see the new rap music sub-genre: CONTENT WARNING
1. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NzspsovNvII&list=PL5012C10946C1F1BA&index=53&feature=plpp_video
2. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tbMZj2WC1lc&list=PL5012C10946C1F1BA&index=55&feature=plpp_video
3. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o64Fz-KW1Dk&feature=related
"Come on, everybody else is doing it!"
Oh, very wise business owner...
If the heat in your MA kitchen gets too hot, please move to Hampton Roads, VA...
You’re our kind of baker!
Whoopie-Pie-fil-A
But...but...I bought my EBT card at a discount for cash, so the recipient could have drug money...you HAVE to sell me pie! < /sarc >
But, seriously, is ID required along with the card, to be sure that doesn’t happen?
Michelle Obama promised them pie and they intend to have it regardless of who must pay.