The 2009 Index of Dependence on Government (Are We Socialist yet?)
The 2009 Index of Dependence on Government (Are We Socialist yet?)
That’s the plan. Get everyone hooked on a so-called freebie
and they’ll be a socialist voter forever.
Rector's seminal 2006 study, Importing Poverty: Immigration and Poverty in the United States: A Book of Charts, should be required reading for any policy maker.
The United States has the richest poor people in the world.
Barack the Kenyan told “Joe the Plumber” that he wasn’t going to do this. The only problem is, the morons who live in this country didn’t believe him. They wanted to make “history” so they voted for “the black guy”.
Won’t be for long....within the next few years plus, the US will be going default and be assured, some serious cuts are going to take place in those vast social programs we have in this country....bet.
Hu Jintao will call the shots financially for us in the long run.
He might try. But I think these clowns have reached the end of the road on taxes. Further tax increases are just going to reduce the GDP, and the deficit now exceeding $1.5 trillion, will balloon to in excess of $2 trillion per year. Needless to say, that won’t last long before the economic machine assumes the fetal position.
Since Dingy Harry Reid had previously called the war in Iraq lost, can we just call the War on Poverty lost, too?
***“Stay on welfare and don’t get married.” This message, however, is the very reason poverty continues to be a problem in the U.S. and why Lyndon Johnson’s War on Poverty failed.****
Absolutly true! I remember when Johnson went to Appalachia to announce his program and job training to a hillbilly that had never held a job. Twenty five years later, that same hillbilly still had never worked a day of his life but had spent his life still drawing government WELFARE checks.
When my mom retired, she had only SSI to support her, plus a small job. One day a local social worker for the welfare department tried to get her to become a welfare recipiant. We found out that the ONLY reason she wanted mom on welfare was it gave the social worker more JOB SECURITY!
Mom never went on welfare.
Old joke from the 1960s...
A hillbilly is napping while his wife is reading the newspaper.
Wife: “Luke, it says here the president has declared war on poverty!”
Husband: “Well, if he wants me in that war he is gonna have to draft me!”
That chart could also represent social pathologies in the black community. Disease, single moms, out of wedlock births (quaint phrase), divorce rates, murder, drive-by shootings, drug use, HIV/AIDS, incarceration...you name it. The more wealth we transfer, the worse things get.
Get ready for a whole new round of even more virulent pathologies embedded for the next 3 or 4 generations.
-- The Political Perspective of the Democratic Socialists of America
--We are socialists because we reject an international economic order sustained by private profit, alienated labor, race and gender discrimination, environmental destruction, and brutality and violence in defense of the status quo.
--The fundamental task of democratic socialists is to build anti-corporate social movements capable of winning reforms that empower people.
--In the United States, we must fight for a humane public policies that will provide quality health care, education, and job training and that redirect public investment from the military to much-neglected urban housing and infrastructure. Such policies require the support of a majoritarian coalition of trade unionists, people of color, feminists, gays and lesbians and all other peoples committed to democratic change. Our greatest contribution as American socialists to global social justice is to build that coalition, which is key to transforming the power relations of global capitalism.
---Socialists have historically supported public ownership and control of the major economic institutions of society -- the large corporations -- in order to eliminate the injustice and inequality of a class-based society, and have depended on the the organization of a working class party to gain state power to achieve such ends. In the United States, socialists joined with others on the Left to build a broad-based, anti-corporate coalition, with the unions at the center, to address the needs of the majority by opposing the excesses of private enterprise.
---Social Redistribution. --the shift of wealth and resources from the rich to the rest of society--will require:
1.--massive redistribution of income from corporations and the wealthy to wage earners and the poor and the public sector, in order to provide the main source of new funds for social programs,income maintenance and infrastructure rehabilitation, and
2.--a massive shift of public resources from the military (the main user of existing discretionary funds) to civilian uses.
Although such reforms will be very difficult to achieve on a national scale in the short term, their urgency increases as income inequality intensifies. Over time, income redistribution and social programs will be critical not only to the poor but to the great majority of working people. The defense and expansion of government programs that promote social justice, equal education for all children, universal health care, environmental protection and guaranteed minimum income and social well-being is critical for the next Left.
Election agenda
--Electoral tactics are only a means for democratic socialists; the building of a powerful anti-corporate coalition is the end. Where third party or non-partisan candidates mobilize such coalitions, democratic socialists will build such organizations and candidacies. However, to democratize U.S. electoral politics - whatever its party form -requires serious campaign finance reform both within and without the Democratic Party.
Pelosi is a big part of this.
Something is definitely wrong here. We all know that clinton ended “welfare as we know it” way back in 1995. Why does that graph show the numbers going up and up and up?
The way a society should run is for every able bodied person to have a job, not for a huge group to receive financial aid from the rest of us (the aid takes numerous forms including tax and mortgage breaks and now healthcare). Now a huge group (40 percent or so) pays no taxes. Crazy, man! And here we are cranking up a healthcare program to give additional aid primarily to that same 40 percent.
Universal healthcare is a wonderful idea from a moral standpoint. The only problem is cost. The only real solution is for practically everyone to make enough to to pay for their universal level of healthcare. The solution is not to have the universal level of healthcare to be so expensive that an enormous fraction of our population must have a subsidy. Massive programs where one part of the population takes care of another part only sap the society’s energy and motivation.
Margaret Thatcher: "The trouble with Socialism is, sooner or later you run out of other people's money."
"When you subsidize poverty and failure, you get more of both." - James Dale Davidson, National Taxpayers Union
So, Patriots, when is real change going to happen?
CAGW Names Rep. Louise Slaughter Porker of the Month
http://www.cagw.org/newsroom/porker-of-the-month/2010/cagw-names-rep-louise.html
A friend of mine went to work for Goodwill right after Welfare reform was passed. She was floored that so many she had go through her entry into the workforce progam had no idea how to fill out a application to go to work, nor had they ever known anyone who worked for a living.Many told her they were just there until they could get pregnant again becuse as long as you had a child unter the age of 2, the welfare kept coming.
The whole rotten system would crash and burn long before Premier Hussein ever gets his hands on that much money. The Chinese are our mortal enemies but they are not fools. Even they won’t lend us that much money...
Pick a problem, whether it is poverty, or unemployment, or maintaining high employment,or average profits too low, or even average profits too high, and Keynesians will believe that the cure is increased government intervention, with increased government spending and increasingly larger government deficits.They don't have a problem with wasteful spending. They believe that the government can always tax more, borrow more, or print more money.
Surprise, surprise..
The scumbag Ubanga administration is all about reparations.
