Obama: Entitlements ‘Do Not Make Us A Nation Of Takers’

TPM ^ | 21 Jan 13 | Pema Levy

[1010RD]

Read Bastiat:

http://bastiat.org/en/the_law.html#SECTION_G003

[publius911]

Obama: Entitlements ‘Do Not Make Us A Nation Of Takers’

Of course it does, unless you redefine the English language.
Of course confounding pure welfare (NO contributory participation whatsoever) with Social Security doesn't help clarity in any discussion.

When the number of welfare recipients grossly overwhelm the producers, the system fails.

It's simple math.
Far as I know, there is no such thing as "ebonics math."

[R0CK3T]

Not takers...Criminal Crooks and Thieves who Steal under the color of authority.

[Abby4116]

With all due respect, I believe you've missed the point. One of the most disgusting things about this President is that he wants the public to think his opponents see people like you and people like the guy with a Gucci hat and an iPhone buying steak at the checkout line with an EBT card (stole that last part from Iowahawk) as the same sort of person.

That is exactly what he is trying to do. When they put Medicare and Medicaid together they are trying to legitimatize Medicaid as being the same sort of program that Medicare is. Funny we don't hear about the annual deductible related to Medicaid (which we continue to pay for monthly on Medicare by the way).

With the number of "disability" social security recipients approved in recent years due to the unemployment problem the program just got in much worse shape. Aren't they collecting ss for their spouse and kids too?

[bygolly]

Obama: Entitlements ‘Do Not Make Us A Nation Of Takers’

This from "The Taker In Chief"!

[publius911]

I don’t consider myself a taker. I’m receiving Social Security, a program I’ve paid into for 50 years and am still paying into.

Doesn't matter what you think.
Your Social Security benefits are no more or less earned than the welfare queen with 12 kids by 12 different baby-daddys, or the babbling alcoholic who has never held a job, or the able-bodied willingly ignorant who "qualify" for permanent disability...

[andyk]

Now entitlements free us to take risks and make us better. You gotta hand it to his speech writers.

I'm sure most folks on food stamps are down and out entrepreneurs.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

When they put Medicare and Medicaid together they are trying to legitimatize Medicaid as being the same sort of program that Medicare is.

Exactly. Medicare is not a government "freebie". It is a program they force you into and then take your money by force to pay for it.

I am paying in to Medicare right now and I am twenty five years away from being forced into the "plan"

I have insurance and I would like to keep it but I can't. When I turn 67 I will have to give up my current insurance as primary (but still have to keep it as secondary)and pay for Medicare and my coverage will go down.

And this is suppose to be a benefit?

[TurboZamboni]

“Do not blame Caesar, blame the people of Rome who have so enthusiastically acclaimed and adored him and rejoiced in their loss of freedom and danced in his path and given him triumphal processions. Blame the people who hail him when he speaks in the Forum of the new wonderful good society which shall now be Rome’s, interpreted to mean more money, more ease, more security, and more living fatly at the expense of the industrious.” —Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC)

[publius911]

You’re hardly alone in viewing the SS program that way, but (1) it wasn’t designed as a purely investment based plan in the first place and (2) and...

(3) it could never sustain that 60% of the eventual outflow would be the result of what did not even exist when Social Security was created: lifetime support for the indolent and their little bastards....

[RightOnline]

That thought has crossed my mind more than once, FRiend.

[Abby4116]

And this is suppose to be a benefit?

They tell us it is an ENTITLEMENT.

[publius911]

This cannot be undone without massive civil unrest, so it will continue until America is no more and everyone becomes slaves for their pay.

Or until the new slave the Working Amercan, rebels...

[Fledermaus]

This A-hole is the biggest, lying BS’er in history. What a mental midget.

[Kickass Conservative]

Notice how the Prez didn't mention Welfare, Food Stamps, Section 8 Housing or the infamous Low Income Tax Credit?

Those are the TAKER Programs.

He purposely included the “funded” Entitlements that are meant for the same people who paid into them throughout their working lives to elicit the exact reaction you Posted.

As usual, he is playing us for fools. I'm sorry, he is playing the Useful Idiots for the fools they are.

[BooBoo1000]

By what stretch of the imagination, did these “Takers” become entitiled to all of these programs. Entitled, Entitlement, by what manner of sophistry did these people become wards of the state>>>???

[First_Salute]

Your Honor,

It was not theft.

My client killed the two people in the home and stole their money and a large TV, for the greater good.

He was merely doing nightwork, part time, to redistribute to the masses, what was not the deceased’s property, by Executive Order and Obama’s Gettysburg Address of January 21, 2013.

/s

[Graewoulf]

Communist Tyrant Hussein Obama began his second illegal regime yesterday.

Tyrant Obama seeks revenge, and has the Democrats pledged to support his continued destruction of the United States of America.

GAME ON Obama, GAME ON !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Jane Long]

He continued: "We do not believe that in this country, freedom is reserved for the lucky, or happiness for the few.

Oh, so now freedom means entitlements.

[Right Wing Assault]

So, if you aren’t TAKING the money from me, then I don’t have to give it up, RIGHT??

And the IRS won’t come after me, RIGHT??

No? Oh. Please explain.