Posted on 09/13/2011 1:19:32 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
“The United States is the richest, most powerful country in the world and we’re going to change it!”
- Barack Obama
He is on track for a change. . . .
Unfortunately for most of us the change is BAD - REAL BAD. .
If you are poor, then you need to raise your productivity and become more productive
If you’re fat, you’re not poor.
End the war on Poverty. LBJ was wrong. Then let’s spend the peace dividend.
I read a study once that said the richer you are the less TV you watch, and many wealthy people don’t even have a TV. Just like the poorer you are, the fatter you are. Only in America.
I am amazed at how well the “poor” live. It would be nice if they would say thanks for my generosity at least once while in line at Walmart using their Lone Star Card.
They always seem to pull away in a newer vehicle than me and have personal electronic gadgets that make my Razor look quite antiquated. I’m not a tattoo or piercing guy, but I know that stuff is not cheap either. I guess it does pay to be poor.
Let's keep the focus on where it belongs. Rick Perry may want to stick you daughter with needles, Obama wants her to kill her unborn child. Bachman wants you to pray before football games, Obama wants you to die from exposure for lack of energy to heat your house. Romney wants to force you to purchase health insurance, Obama.....Oh Boy!
Gee, I don’t have cable or satellite TV.
RE: Gee, I don’t have cable or satellite TV
You poor man... don’t worry, Uncle Sam will fix that :)
I don’t have ceiling fans. I’m below “poor.”
Well, then roll down the dang window.
I disagree with the assertion that the definition of poverty is irrelevant.
The rhetoric of liberal policy is heavily laden with the term “poverty”, and both policy decisions and money allocations are made on the back of that term.
Actually, I believe some of the largest expenditures we make fall into those categories.
If we cannot have an honest appraisal and evaluation of what poverty is, then why even have a government that takes our money and does things with it?
I readily understand that to some, that is precisely the point.
“In 2008, federal and state governments spent $714 billion on means-tested welfare programs”
Can that be right ? Dividing $714B by 46M people is $15,500 PER PERSON — man woman and CHILD. How can anyone be considered “poor” when government assistance is providing that much money ? A family of four getting $62K in assistance ? Or ... is this a case of government overhead eating the lion’s share and the “needy” receiving just a fraction of the tax dollars spent ?
We should eliminate all of it.
Go back to soup kitchens where people who are really starving can get a meal but not use their food stamps to buy groceries that they can then sell for drugs.
Housing projects were a disaster and the people using housing assistance destroy whatever homes they “rent”, so let them live in cardboard boxes if they aren’t willing to be productive enough to afford better.
Medicaid is a scam and ridiculously expensive — better to fund free clinics where the staff are paid a fixed salary and are immune from lawsuits and taxes than the CYA medicine and opportunism that Medicaid pay-for-procedures model fosters.
A doctor can easily do 6,000 patient visits a year, or 1,000 patients six times per year, so paying him $500 per patient gives him $500,000 income each year to pay himself, a nurse, and office/consumables plus the testing that really needs to be done in a non-CYA environment — $24B to cover all 46M+ “poor” for primary care.
RE: A doctor can easily do 6,000 patient visits a year, or 1,000 patients six times per year, so paying him $500 per patient gives him $500,000 income each year to pay himself, a nurse, and office/consumables plus the testing that really needs to be done in a non-CYA environment
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Here in NYC, a doctor has to pay over $100,000 a year in malpractice insurance. Did you add that in the above calculation? A Gastroenterologist I know tells me he pays close to $130,000/year in malpractice insurance.
Government possesses no ability for creating wealth.
Government possesses no money except that which it confiscates from the citizens who earn it in the private sector through taxes or fees or through printing money (inflation), or through indebtedness to be laid on future generations.
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"To preserve [the] independence [of the people,] we must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. We must make our election between economy and liberty, or profusion and servitude. If we run into such debts as that we must be taxed in our meat and in our drink, in our necessaries and our comforts, in our labors and our amusements, for our callings and our creeds, as the people of England are, our people, like them, must come to labor sixteen hours in the twenty-four, give the earnings of fifteen of these to the government for their debts and daily expenses, and the sixteenth being insufficient to afford us bread, we must live, as they now do, on oatmeal and potatoes, have no time to think, no means of calling the mismanagers to account, but be glad to obtain subsistence by hiring ourselves to rivet their chains on the necks of our fellow-sufferers." --Thomas Jefferson to Samuel Kercheval, 1816. ME 15:39
"I deem [this one of] the essential principles of our government and consequently [one] which ought to shape its administration:... The honest payment of our debts and sacred preservation of the public faith." --Thomas Jefferson: 1st Inaugural, 1801. ME 3:322
"I sincerely believe... that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity under the name of funding is but swindling futurity on a large scale." --Thomas Jefferson to John Taylor, 1816. ME 15:23
"[With the decline of society] begins, indeed, the bellum omnium in omnia [war of all against all], which some philosophers observing to be so general in this world, have mistaken it for the natural, instead of the abusive state of man. And the fore horse of this frightful team is public debt. Taxation follows that, and in its train wretchedness and oppression." --Thomas Jefferson to Samuel Kercheval, 1816. ME 15:40
"Agriculture, manufactures, commerce, and navigation, the four pillars of our prosperity, are the most thriving when left most free to individual enterprise." - Thomas Jefferson
"The enviable condition of the people of the United States is often too much ascribed to the physical advantages of their soil & climate .... But a just estimate of the happiness of our country will never overlook what belongs to the fertile activity of a free people and the benign influence of a responsible government." - James Madison
The point is to defeat this S.O.B. at any and all cost and put a strong Conservative in the White House.
Of course, I agree that poverty in America is certainly better than prosperity in North Korea, but it is still a lack of jobs, earnings and incomes.
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