How wonderful for you and the people you know.
I live in a state nearly as red as your home state; we are also enjoying a very good farm and ranch economy, also something of a building boom, and definitely a spillover prosperity from the nearby Bakken play.
Yet my blood boils every time I stand in line at the grocery store watching healthy young people, sometimes with children and sometimes not, emptying their burgeoning shopping carts, food, snacks, dry goods, the customers wearing name-brand apparel and expensive shoes, running the tab up close to a couple hundred bucks---with the "EBT" designation showing bright on the checkout display.
We now have 50 million people, one in five "families," taking food stamps---not to mention other transfer payments of course. Carefree, job-free, shame-free.
Romney was stupid and gutless about a lot of things but he if anything he was over-optimistic about the forty-seven percent. Who would have thought to see the term "bigoted" thrown out by a conservative at FR in reference to our undeniably disastrous welfare state?
“Romney was stupid and gutless about a lot of things but he if anything he was over-optimistic about the forty-seven percent. Who would have thought to see the term “bigoted” thrown out by a conservative at FR in reference to our undeniably disastrous welfare state? “
You really nailed it. Dems won. In presidential elections, it’s Dems or RINOs forever because of this. A real believer in downsizing governemnt doesnt stand a chance. Too many are too invested in big government. Dems won.
It wasn’t bigoted of Romney to decry government welfare, it was bigoted to only oppose welfare to the poorest citizens. It was incorrect to say that people getting government assistance will automatically vote for food stamps over a growing economy and good jobs. It was politically stupid to insult potential voters and bigoted to not include the big banks and the crony capitalists in his list of takers. But what would you expect from an elitist socialist like Romney.
For the record, it disgusts me to watch someone buy a load of luxury groceries with their ebt card and load them into their nearly new car.