Mitt Wasn't All Wrong About "Gifts"

Townhall.com ^ | November 20, 2012 | Pat Buchanan

[Kaslin]

Set aside the idealized Hispanic of the Republican consultants' vision. What does the real Hispanic community look like today?

Let us consider only native-born Hispanics, U.S. citizens.

According to Steve Camarota of the Center for Immigration Studies, which analyzed Census Bureau statistics from 2012:

-- More than one in five Hispanic citizens lives in poverty.

-- One in four Hispanic-American men 25 to 55 is out of work.

-- More than half of all Hispanic women 25-55 are unmarried.

-- Half of all Hispanic households with children are headed by an unmarried woman, and 55 percent depend on welfare programs.

These numbers do not improve with time, as they did with the Irish, Italian, Polish, Jewish and German immigrants who poured into the United States between 1890 and 1920. Third-generation Hispanics do worse than second-generation Hispanics in all the above categories.

This is a huge community being sucked into the morass of a mammoth welfare state. Consider a typical Hispanic household with children.

It is headed by an unmarried women who receives food stamps and public housing or rent supplements to feed and house her children.

Her kids are educated free from Head Start to K-12 and fed by school breakfast and lunch programs. Should they graduate high school, Pell Grants and student loans are there for college.

For cash, mom gets welfare checks. If she takes a job, she will receive an earned income tax credit to supplement her income. If she loses her job, she can get 99 weeks of unemployment checks.

For health care, there is Medicaid and Obamacare. And like 45 percent of all Hispanic households, she has no federal income tax liability.

Why should this woman vote for a party that will cut taxes she does not pay, but reduce benefits she does receive?

Rename Romney's gifts "government services," writes Aaron Blake citing a Washington Post poll, and one discovers that 67 percent of Latinos favor "a larger government with more services."

These are big government people. And why should they not be?

According to Heather Mac Donald, writing in National Review, a 2011 survey found that California Hispanics by four to one objected more to the GOP on class-warfare grounds -- the party "favors only the rich," Republicans are "selfish" -- than to the GOP stand on immigration.

Writes Mac Donald: California's Hispanics will likely prove more decisive in passing Proposition 30, to raise state income taxes to 13.3 percent, the highest level in the nation, than to Obama's victory.

Nor is this unusual. Populist programs to stick it to the rich have always had an appeal south of the border.

There are 50 million Hispanics in America today. California is lost to the GOP. Nevada and Colorado are slipping away. Arizona and Texas are next up on the block.

With the U.S. Hispanic population in 2050 projected to reach 130 million, the acolytes of Karl Rove have their work cut out for them.

[capt B]

If “A” says “take from Peter to give to Paul,Paul will vote for “A” every time”. G. Bernard Shaw, Fabian socialist/ Stalin enthusiast. He new the “secret” of manipulating the “masses”

[SMARTY]

I think that if we EVER have another ‘Republican’ President, he will be SO compromised that he will certainly NOT represent Conservatism in this country.

Maybe the unavoidable, debilitating, economic flat-line scenario we're facing will bring everyone back to their senses.... but I am not optimistic.

[jboot]

Mitt wasn't wrong AT ALL. He was spot-on.

He merely said That Which Cannot Be Said, that large numbers of unproductive people demand access to Other People's Money and the Democrat party stays in power by providing it.

If the Republicans cease to acknowledge this fact I will cease to vote for them.

[Ann Archy]

Our country is OVER! The GIVERMENT has destroyed these peoples souls by the ENSLAVEMENT of FREE THINGS! They will never go back to being self sufficient. RIP AMERICA.

[A_perfect_lady]

Yes. It earns them status among the other girls, who all cluster around them cooing at how “cute” they look with a big belly. You’d think they were 6 years old and one of them just got a puppy.

[Just mythoughts]

This is not gift giving this is theft by government and churches. This is ‘social justice’ led by ungodly people.

[SMARTY]

Right.

There is pathology at work in reducing Americans to a condition of dehumanizing, eternal and unwholesome dependence upon government.

This is indistinguishable from servitude in all but name!

It’s the obscenity of the whole Liberal plan.

[madameguinot]

Finally, an idea I can get behind!

[PGalt]

Great article by Pat. Thanks for posting. Great article/great posts BUMP!

DEFUND socialism’s collectives. Si se puede.

[StAnDeliver]

"Look, everything I ever said about Mitt was exactly true.

1) He’s a very, very good man.

2) He is a manager, not a leader.

3) He was Obama’s dream candidate to run against - a perfect fit for the RAT template they wanted to run on.

4) He has undeveloped, or poor, political skills. It turned out that actively snubbing the Paulistinians, Newt’s followers, and the Sarah brigade was both unnecessary and foolish. A good politician would have kissed all of them, without giving away anything important."

Your (4) is wrong. Mitt Romney is and will forever be "The Man Who Humiliated A President".

Nothing will ever be the same for Bobo after that First Debate revealed him to be utterly incompetent for the job. The boobs that voted to rob the Treasury don't care about Bobo's competence. At All.

[AKA Elena]

I am so sick of the Romney KNOCKING that the GOP and individuals are driving through his soul! God bless the man with class and his running mate... who DID HAVE THE CHANCE to resurrect the USA!

Don't bother responding negatively, as I said I am sick to death of hearing and reading the garbage of criticism!

[txrefugee]

The Mexicans Credo: If you have two, I can steal one.

[ZirconEncrustedTweezers]

“The Mexicans Credo: If you have two, I can steal one.”

Which reminds me of a joke I remember hearing years and years ago...

There’s a boy whose father is Mexican and mother is Jewish. One day, he asks his mom, “Am I more Mexican or more Jewish?”

She says, “I don’t know. Why don’t you ask your father?”

So he asks his father the same question. His father says, “I don’t know, son. Why do you ask?”

The boy answers, “The house across the street has a bicycle for sale. I’m trying to decide whether to go over there and haggle with them or wait until dark and steal it.”

[teflon9]

5) Paul Ryan as Romney’s running mate was Zero’s wet dream.

[ZirconEncrustedTweezers]

“The Mexicans Credo: If you have two, I can steal one.”

Which reminds me of a joke I remember hearing years and years ago...

There’s a boy whose father is Mexican and mother is Jewish. One day, he asks his mom, “Am I more Mexican or more Jewish?”

She says, “I don’t know. Why don’t you ask your father?”

So he asks his father the same question. His father says, “I don’t know, son. Why do you ask?”

The boy answers, “The house across the street has a bicycle for sale. I’m trying to decide whether to go over there and haggle with them or wait until dark and steal it.”

[teflon9]

LOL!

[sheana]

I live in an area of California with a HUGE illegal population. They all think we owe them. You can’t even have a yard sale here without having 3 or 4 people to watch the illegals and their horde of children when they come. They will pay for a few 25 cent items and steal you blind. It is all done while they have you distracted with their interpreter children.

[cymbeline]

At the bottom this is a financial issue. How nice it would be if everyone could do no work and get housing, food, medical care, cellphones, spending money, etc.

I hope the fiscal cliff discussions will make us more aware of where our tax money is going and will reveal areas that obviously need to be cut back.

Handing out too much money to too many people is bad for the recipients and the suppliers. It will ruin a society.

[Arm_Bears]

Romney was spot on with this comment. What’s been instructive to me is the number of Republicans, including the 2016 “front-runners,” who have fallen all over themselves to condemn this very accurate observation. I won’t be supporting any of these dillweeds as they are simply RAT-lite.

[Vaduz]

He was also right about the 47%,the youn&dumb,lazy and greedy voted for zero.