"...instead of using some of his hoard of cash - he whipped out his supplemental nutrition assistance card. I literally watched in amazement as the cashier rang up the purchase, handed him the receipt and thanked him for his patronage. "
Yeah sure, amnesty is about cheap labor and getting new voters for the 'rats. But those are just the fringe benefits for the kakistocracy. Mostly, though, it's about trying to get 14 million plus people who are surviving and and many cases thriving on the underground economy to please join the official economy.
7.3 is pure manufactured government spun BS. All it takes is looking around at your ommunity to see the droes of people losong their jobs or being downgraded to the point that it almost costs them more to work if they have to drive any distance. Again that number is pure Obama spun BS manipulation.
‘Travis’ - good article but it’s about one book and half an anthology behind you.
When you don’t have a robust manufacturing base, you are left with a lot of low-skilled people with nothing to do except flip burgers and exclaim “welcome to Wal Mart.”
The reality is that, with the U.S. government running on an annual deficit in excess of $1 trillion, the beneficiaries of these programs are using money that isn't costing the U.S. taxpayer a dime. This is how these programs have managed to perpetuate themselves at all.
The cost of the welfare state is due to the diversion of funds from capitalists, businessmen, and the rich to government officials, government employees and to recipients of welfare and redistribution. The aggregate results are:
1) decreases in profits
2) decreases in savings
3) decreases in net investment
4) decreases in demand for capital goods
5) decreases in demand for labor of workers
6) decreases in money wage rates for workers
7) decreases in supply of labor hired
8) decreases in net consumption of capitalists, businessmen, and the rich
9) decreases in demand for consumers' goods by workers
10) decreases in productive expenditure
11) decreases in investment of capital
12) decreases in capital invested
13) increased demand for consumer goods by welfare recipients and bureaucrats
14) decreased ratio of demand for capital goods / demand for consumers' goods
15) decreases in total productive ability
16) decreased capital accumulation
17) lower standard of living for the average wage earner
No mystery there. The Hispanics on welfare/food stamps always have undeclared jobs on the side, such as running a small landscaping business. They pocket all that cash, but conveniently forget to mention it at the welfare office. Meanwhile, American recipients who fell on hard times and are honest about their income are routinely turned down because they’re the tiniest bit over the poverty line. The system is stacked against honest people.
Most incomes are dependent on government debt/revenues (government employment, NGOs, contractors, services including financial, etc.). Even the agricultural industry is trying to use government to outlaw small farms. Energy might be one of the more independent private sector fields of work, but even that is closely linked with government in many ways. The last I saw figures, (couple of years ago), the whole food stamp program consumed nearly $100 billion from the yearly pile of debt (about 1/10th of the yearly deficit). Meanwhile, most government employees continue to have uninhibited labor unions (most of them without doing labor).
My grandma and parents were all full blown democrats. Why? Because in the fifties they could get government cheese. A guy in town would drive his pickup truck to the county seat to pick up “commodities” for several people in town. The people would give him some of the food. He’d then sell it. Fraud has been a part of welfare since it started.
And by the way, powdered milk and powdered eggs will gag a maggot.
I think he may have made an incorrect assumption.
If a person has a lot of money in their wallet, yet they are buying groceries with food stamps, do you assume they are wealthy enough to buy their food with that cash?
What if they pay their rent with cash? And buy gasoline with cash? And pay for everything with cash? It is likely they do not have a credit card, or a bank account, and they are carrying around all the money they have in their wallet.
Lots of people, with many more joining their ranks, are now living on the cash economy. Whatever job they can get, they are paid in cash. Everything they buy they buy with cash. They do not have enough wealth to use “the system.”
People who have credit cards don’t as often carry that much cash in their wallets. It is in their bank accounts, their investments, etc.
Where are so many people finding work in the underground economy?
Great Article! Thanks!
I don't care about the excuses. It always must go back to the people and their lack of self respect. None of this sh!t would work if people had any self respect. They want to be slaves, they deserve to be slaves. I'm very angry about their desire to be effin worthless pieces of protoplasm at the expense of those have real value in life.
But as far as their unhappy lives and worthless, unfulfilling existence(s), I don't care. I have several in the extended family and I honestly don't give a damn what happens to any of them. They get nothing from me (us).
If one state like Louisiana,Texas, or a Southern State secedes then many Americans who love freedom, small government and self reliance will move to that seceded state. And many democrats would move out. then with the greater majority of self reliant people we would remove the welfare state which would send any remaining democrat and illegal fleeing to the liberal states where they can get welfare and a handout. That new state will with freedom and capitalism outshine all the remaining states that will descend into a a hell of socialism. It would be like Ayn Rand’s Galt’s Gulch. All that has to happen for this is for one state to do it. Knowing the courage and the love for freedom of the people here in Louisiana my bet is on Louisiana. Although I think Texas , Alabama and a few of the other Southern states are also great.
If you work and pay taxes, you are screwed.
If you work and pay taxes and voted for Obama, you are insane.
I know some insane people. I don’t understand how they can work and pay taxes and have voted for Obama.