Welfare

One of many projects to destroy America…

April 30, 2013

This from Judicial Watch: “For decades the U.S. government has knowingly given illegal immigrants food stamps, according to a former certification case worker who denounced the costly practice back in the 1980s but was essentially ordered to keep a lid on it.” Meanwhile, “the nation’s food stamp program has exploded under President Obama.” Read the [ Read more ]

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On the dole: “A hand up or a hammock?” Let’s get back to basics

February 8, 2013

Welfare, that is.  Used to be called “charity” from private sources, and sometimes, folks stayed at the county “poor house”.  Nowadays, the dole (heck, even “welfare”)  is dressed up in smooth bureaucratise so as not to “cause undue stigmatism towards those that need assistance”.  Payments go directly from Government “dole-er outers” to those that supply [ Read more ]

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Cause and Effect

December 22, 2012

If exposure to violence in movies or video games is a catalyst for youth violence, is exposure to welfare and other government handouts a catalyst to generational dependency? The answer to the former is that exposure to the latter is more likely to result in youth violence as they look for the only ways left [ Read more ]

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The Society’s wagon – pulling it or demanding to ride in it: what do you think?

December 7, 2012
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Data Points – various sundry stats

November 1, 2012

Welfare (via Heritage): Over half of the US thinks we spend too much for welfare Over half thinks Govt spends too much on poverty programs Only 22% believe that poverty programs reduce poverty 84% believe work should be mandatory to receive welfare Jobs according to ADP: Revised last month’s job advance – from 162, 000 [ Read more ]

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Guest Post: Mike Johnson – “New Hampshire, Tear Down This Firewall”

October 21, 2012

New Hampshire, Tear Down This Firewall Mike Johnson mnosnhoj@comcast.net 10/21/12 You have a choice, New Hampshire, an important choice, a life-style choice. Like our motto says, you can “Live Free or Die,” a free self-reliant citizen of New Hampshire, proud of yourself and proud of your state and your country.  Or you can “Live Dependent [ Read more ]

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Quotes worthy of note: Government dependency…

October 8, 2012

“Volumes of research have shown that Great Society welfare policies—such as public housing and aid to families with dependent children—fuel family dissolution, community fragmentation, generational joblessness, and government dependency….The Obama administration [is] more adroit at excuse-making and blame-shifting that creating opportunity, and seems ideologically incapable of pursuing the policies that fulfill the moral promise of [ Read more ]

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Parliment of Whores Update – ‘Fore’ More Years

September 5, 2012

The lefts parliament of whores has convened in Charlotte and two important things happened.  First, Charlotte’s collective IQ dropped 70 points.  Second, they want four more years. Of what? Adding another six trillion to the national debt? Another 48 months of unemployment over 8%? Median income dropping another $4,000.00? 47 million people on food stamps? [ Read more ]

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Passing the Buck on Welfare Work Requirements

August 20, 2012

Waving the job requirement for welfare seems like a natural extension of the Obama Economic plan.  Make sure there are no jobs, keep people dependent on government.  And now he can blame the states…who are suffering under every other yoke he has placed upon them in three in half years. Hey, maybe he’ll send Biden [ Read more ]

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Backwards

August 8, 2012
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Sometimes, it is nice to receive a “thank you” instead of a “where’s my….”

August 5, 2012

I’ve mentioned on many occasions here that TMEW and I ran a daycare center for a few years; I also have stated that the folks that were almost always the folks that were the most appreciative of the care we gave to and around their most precious ones were those paying “full boat” prices.  Yes, [ Read more ]

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Ancient Rome, America today, and TR…

May 3, 2012

  A quote from this guy on the horse on the left: “The Roman Republic fell, not because of the ambition of Caesar or Augustus, but because it had already long ceased to be in any real sense a republic at all. When the sturdy Roman plebeian, who lived by his own labor, who voted [ Read more ]

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Leftist-Progressives: Always The Dependable Deniers

April 11, 2012

“An individual, in promoting his own interest, may injure the public interest; a nation, in promoting the general welfare, may check the interest of a part of its members.” —Friedrich List Last week the Union Leader’s Gary Rayno reported on a check made of electronic databases searching for potential welfare fraud. House Speaker Bill O’Brien is [ Read more ]

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Why work when the Government pays you more to NOT work full time?

February 28, 2012

Over at Don Surber’s place, he had this post on the observation of a newspaper owner on “why aren’t people going to work?” Short answer:  Government. The observation: why aren’t people taking $10 / hour jobs and be self supportive and independent of welfare “strings attached”? Longer Answer: Due to the welfare system, it pays [ Read more ]

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Building the American Underclass

February 17, 2012

Theodore Dalrymple (pen name), has produced some of the most compelling work I’ve read about the welfare state and how it creates and sustains the underclass.  If you are still staring out across the crumbling wreckage of the fruited plain, wondering how we got here and where we may be headed, Dalrymple has some very [ Read more ]

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The Ascension of Democrat Voters

January 29, 2012

This started as a comment to Skips remarks on Neal Kurks bill HB 1658: ‘An act limiting Financial Assistance for mothers who have additional children while on Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF).  As usual, a few off the cuff remark exceeded the medium so I have promoted them here–and then some. It should be [ Read more ]

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Why should taxpayers be paying for more babies? Who really is the selfish one in all this? Enter stage Right – HB1658

January 28, 2012

Before getting into the quick discussion of NH HB1658 (“limiting financial assistance for mothers who have additional children while receiving Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF).”) that some Conservative has introduced, how ’bout this for a table setting?  This went viral back in December and while it was shocking to see a single women with [ Read more ]

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The Food Stamp Nation and Its’ President

January 24, 2012

 ”I’d go to, like, six different schools in one year. We were on welfare, and my mom never ever worked.” —Eminem During the Republican Presidential Debates, Newt Gingrich referred to President Obama as the, “Food Stamp President.” That was last week. Yet, over two years ago, Wyatt Emmerich, Publisher for the Northside Sun based in [ Read more ]

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Free Markets, Not Redistribution, Is Best Way to Reduce Poverty

November 22, 2011

Another installment from the Center for Freedom & Prosperity Foundation Economics 101 series; this one is that driving poverty away does not come from enforced charity but from Free Markets: A primer: who is poor, who is defining poverty, what causes poverty, and what is an answer to break govt dependency?

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A 21-year-old girl in Waco, Texas says “Put me in charge!”

November 7, 2011

This, from a 21-year-old female, was in the Waco Tribune Herald in Waco, Texas on November 18, 2010 (maybe…I haven’t checked it; but it sounds good anyway!). "Put me in charge . . . " Put me in charge of food stamps. I’d get rid of Lone Star cards; no cash for Ding Dongs or Ho [ Read more ]

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Get rid of it! Star Parker on Government sponsored welfare

November 5, 2011

Star Parker: “I know firsthand about welfare and welfare dependency because of my own life, living seven years in and out,” says Star Parker, founder and president of the Center for Urban Renewal and Education (CURE). Parker, also a syndicated columnist, explains what she thinks are the actual steps out of poverty and why our [ Read more ]

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SHORT BUS ECONOMICS

October 17, 2011

“Imagine a political system so radical as to promise to move more of the poorest 20% of the population into the richest 20% than remain in the poorest bracket within the decade? You don’t need to imagine it. It’s called the United States of America.”  —Thomas Sowell The collective voice of “Occupy Wall Street” has [ Read more ]

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Jeanne Shaheen: “Porking” Those Tax Increases Down Our Throats

October 3, 2011

  ”If Thomas Jefferson thought taxation without representation was bad, he should see how it is with representation …” —Rush Limbaugh Today’s Union Leader Editorial, entitled, “Free Cops!” points once again to the ills of  having a big-government Democrat like Jeanne Shaheen serving the Granite State in the U.S. Senate. Like her liberal counterpart, former Congressperson [ Read more ]

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What brings societies like our to an end? “We all know what will save us and what is destroying us.”

October 2, 2011

From Victor Davis Hanson, an author and University of California professor of classics: "Redistribution of wealth rather than emphasis on its creation is surely a symptom aging societies…A  new entitlement in a matter of minutes becomes an institutionalized right whose withdrawal causes far more anguish than its prior nonexistence….But as we see now in postmodern America…the [ Read more ]

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Why the Welfare State is evil. And why it must end.

August 30, 2011
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