Posted on 04/20/2023 12:24:53 PM PDT by Twotone
I often try to get people to see the relationship between the 24th amendment and how we got our welfare program.
Most people cannot grasp the connection, but our current welfare system *IS* the result of passing the 24th amendment.
Not going to happen until we’re can’t afford to fund the programs anymore.
This is exactly correct. From it's creation by Lyndon Johnson in 1964, it was entirely about winning the massive poor class to keep Democrats in power.
And they only recently got the right to vote because the 24th amendment (Deceptively sold as a anti "RACISM" Amendment) gave non taxpayers the right to vote.
This was the beginning of our long national nightmare with reckless spending.
Govt surplus foods at govt distribution centers. Pay farmers to produce and stop paying them to not produce. Very tough certifications required to be qualified to receive.
Housing? No, barracks will inspire people to go get a job and move out.
There’s more to this
We fought The War on Poverty, and Poverty won.
“For ye have the poor with you always,
and whensoever ye will ye may do them good:
but me ye have not always.”
Mark 14:7
Barracks and a chow hall served me for a few years!
yup
“Barracks and a chow hall served me for a few years!”
I occasionally get into discussions with people, unlike yourself, who don’t have any inkling of the trade off a military member makes for their service. You do and so do I. And the minute people think we are overpaid in our retirement or have too many benefits I have to ask them just one question that normally terminates that observations:
What is the price of being willing to walk in front of a bullet for years, sometimes over 20, worth? We already know the cost of it.
If you spent time in a barracks and chow hall, you earned your room and board. (And probably a whole lot more) Welcome back from one who walked there, also, and maybe beside you.
wy69
Once they get their dictatorship established, there will be no more welfare programs. They’ll be forced to work. The role models the Soviet Union, Nazi Germany sent the idlers and work shy to the camps.
The purpose of welfare was to keep the starving masses from tearing rich bastards like FDR limb from limb and burning down his house. The rich are still rich, the poor are more numerous, and you and I get to pay for all of it. Isn’t communism wonderful?
Just one dramatic example. There are many more. I can get a pretty decent pair of athletic shoes for $50, but there is a reason why so many bodegas and convenience stores in poor neighborhoods sell luxury goods.
Almost works, too, if you prioritize law enforcement, so business indirectly subsidized don’t flee from crime. Thank almost never happens in similar situations.
Also fails if the typical 75-85 cents from every subsi-dollar goes to administrative layers of corruption and nonsense.
Starts from the TOP, in DC
Inflation between 1982-2022 (40 years) was 211%.
Population between 1980 and 2020 increased 60 million.
Most likely, the 240% number applies to the amount spent per recipient.
If true, then welfare per recipient has gone up less than 1% per year in constant dollars.
It would be interesting to see the total constant dollar welfare expenditure in 1982 compared to 2022.
Also interesting - how much has the percentage of the USA population collecting welfare gone up in 40 years?
This information comes from a college professor.
I will speculate that he deliberately concealed the constant dollar expenditures and the percentage of welfare recipients because he would catch a lot of Left Wing anger if he revealed that data.
Centuries ago before our country was even founded you needed to work to eat. If you couldn't feed yourself or your family the old New England towns would auction you off. You would be sold to the highest bidder in town and you would work for them full time. In return you got a roof over your head and some food until you could support yourself.
Where are their reparations?
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