This post by Terence Jeffrey at the Daily Signal caught my eye a while ago – I just couldn’t cram it into my schedule at the time as it takes time to reflect upon its message and how it is adding to the crumbling of our traditional norms.
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Dependency
Notable Quote – “Property Is a “Powerful Antidote to Unfettered Selfishness.”
One of the Pillars of our American Constitutional Republic is that of the Right of Private Property. What is mine, IS mine – and not yours. Nor is it yours to take or to lay claim to it in any way.
Notable Quote – It’s always about the Govt Overreach
Why is it that when someone has a “bright idea,” they never want to spend their own money? They want the rest of us (taxpayers) to do it for them?
We Are Seeing the Progressive Dependency Hard at Work Today
We see this today with Progressives in Congress, and Dementia Joe in the Oval Office all pushing for Government check after Government check to be sent out in rapid succession.
Given the Choice, Government Will Choose What is Best for Government
Politicians always want to be seen as “doing something” for you in order to “buy” your vote. And the electorate has been conditioned to believe that Government MUST be in the loop of life, else we’d all DIE!
Blogline of the Day – First they’ve gotten History wrong, gotten morality wrong…
The Black Lives Matter movement highlights the horrors of the past but is blind to the horrors of the present Human history is replete with lots of horrors and many are not all that long ago no matter how hard Progressives think or say they can “evolve” the rest of us to be in their … Read more
Notable Quote – An illusion of Black Dependency on White Largess
The narrative that white people “hold the power” conveys a wrongheaded notion of white superiority and creates an illusion of black dependency on white largess. This false assignment of responsibility, while coming from an authentic desire to produce change, can create a new kind of mental enslavement. Glenn Loury, a Brown University economist, exposed this … Read more
603 Summit: Dan Mitchell
Dan Mitchell is an economist and is widely read and commented on across the Conservative blogosphere; I have quoted his work a lot over the years. Well studied, clear writings, and often, good infographics. If you ever get the chance, search out his articles (there are MANY!) and settle in for a great read. He … Read more
And this is what Progressives wish to turn us all into:
Hey, what do you think “Dependency on Government” really is? (H/T: Powerline)
Jonathan Mackie – candidate for NH State House, Belknap 2 (Gilford/Meredith)
I am Jonathan Mackie, a Republican seeking to represent Meredith and Gilford in Belknap District 2. I am a lifelong resident of New Hampshire and have lived in Meredith since 1984. My wife Sue and I own and operate Clearwater Campground and Meredith Woods Four Season Camping Area in Meredith.
Although I have not previously served in public office, other experiences have given me a perspective that will serve our citizens well. Working as treasurer of my local church for 10 years showed me the value of dedicated volunteers serving to make a community better. We need to protect the religious freedoms that make this possible. My 20 plus years of running a business and also serving as president of the New Hampshire Campground owners Association for 3 years has given me first-hand insight into the many regulations, fees, taxes, permits and licenses that unnecessarily complicate investing in and operating a business in New Hampshire.
I am running because…
Are Liberals really THIS dependent upon Government that…
…they can’t even give their wealth away without outsourcing it to Daddy Warbucks Government? Not exactly my favorite person, “comedian” Bill Maher:
There was a story recently about a Georgia man whose home was in foreclosure, savings running out. So he called 911, and when the responders arrived, he took them hostage. His demands? Getting his electricity turned back on. Now I’m not saying that’s a smart approach, but squeezing people economically so tight that they go all Django unchained, that’s not smart either.
If you’re rich you should be begging the government to redistribute your wealth, because you know what happens in countries where there’s a huge disparity between the rich and the poor? The rich get kidnapped. It happens 72 times a day in Mexico. Getting snatched out of your car is so common in South Africa that they actually make cars that do this.
According to the NewsBusters post, he’s worth $23 million. Let’s do a back of the envelope calculations, shall we? Hey, he doesn’t need more than that, right? After all, President Obama has now twice indicated that once you have made enough money, you don’t need any more. So, let’s just leave Mr. Maher with $5 million – so we have $17 mil to “redistribute”. Let’s say that the average electric bill is $100 / month (round numbers are nice), that would be 170,000 less poor people – at least for a month.
Saturday morning Looking Spoon
H/T The Looking Spoon
Cause and Effect
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
Noted Dem pundit Kirsten Powers – you can’t have it both ways, dear, on Govt as Husband
More on “dear” after the jump. In keeping with the screams of “War on Women”, Fox News contributor Kirsten Powers tried to have it both ways to Sunday in her post about the Conservatives being wrong as to the reason for the female voting gap but also proving the Conservative allegations about Democrats transforming Government into being a proxy Husband and Daddy that has been promoting dependency. We conservatives have complained for years that Government is creating dependency – I have heard her on Fox News refute this reasoning. Yet, here it is in black and white:
…Fast forward to Nov. 6, 2012: unmarried women showed up, and they went for Obama 67 to 31 percent; women with children preferred the president by 56 to 43 percent.
…The media treated the “War on Women” as being primarily about reproductive issues, but not so the Obama campaign. Team Obama knew that the issue that women cared about the most was the economy, and reminded women constantly that the hostility the GOP shows toward the government could leave single women in a perilous situation. Republicans ridiculed “The Life of Julia,” but it was a brilliant campaign outreach tactic that showed how a Romney administration would affect women in a way that left nothing to the imagination.
See where this is going? She’s not being truthful – this is not about “the economy” but just one of the artificial economies kept alive by government spending and subsidies for special interest voting group (along with the constant redefinition of commonly defined words for political purposes). Look at what has happened in “green energy”; as Governments world-wideover pull their subsidies – bankruptcies and layoffs in the “great next thing” as defined by Government hacks (and not by demand from the real marketplace). But I digress. This is not about an economy, this is about a “propping up” because Progressives have achieved one of their main philosophical aims – doing to everyone else what they have achieved in the black urban families. There is no mention of any other viable solutions.
The End of the Beginning of the End
When not caused by war, nations decay slowly and gradually (e.g., modern day France, Italy, Spain, Greece etc.).
Alas, now, it seems ours is no different. Its exceptionalism is dissolving into the ordinary. It’s a choice made by the people. They fore-go liberty and self subjugate themselves under ruling political and administrative classes of which they’ll never be a part. They’ll never rise to those classes because they’re taught apathy, complacency, and their place since birth. They are relieved of the burdensome onus of everyday decisions. Decisions that were proudly made by preceding generations that were not a bother or an onus at all to them. To them, it was life. Deciding what to do, how to live, and how to be was essential and culminated in traditions, virtues, and mores.
That became too onerous for the generations that followed, they blithely go about taking direction and surrendering thinking and creativity to others in the elite political classes.
“Pew Research Center survey finds declining support for government safety nets” – Well, yes!
This article is kinda / mostly straight up and down…OK, it’s not if you think about it hard. It tries hard to present an objective view but when I look at the examples given, the veil falls. In fact, the examples that are inserted to try to arouse a sympathetic aire concerning the safety net simply either doesn’t begin to think of the important unasked questions, or sweeps them under the rug. Like this one (reformatted):
Jasmine McIntyre is thankful for the social safety net supporting her and her unborn child at the Florence Crittenton home. Without the residential program for at-risk teen moms, she would have scant money, little education and a bleak future. Instead, she is pursuing a job and is ready to enroll in college courses…Living at Florence Crittenton in a sprawling, old house with a dozen other hormonal, pregnant teens is not how McIntyre imagined her life when her parents moved to South Carolina three years ago. She was a student at West Ashley High School when she was sexually assaulted and dropped out of school. However, she went on to earn her GED, and the man she alleges attacked her was arrested. Then she learned she was pregnant (though not from the assault).
She decided to have her baby girl. McIntyre sent the baby to live with her own mother, who had since moved to Ohio, and made plans to move there herself. She was working two jobs when she learned she was pregnant again. With little money and no higher education, McIntyre and her mother worried. What was her future? And what could she offer two small children? Again, McIntyre decided to have the baby. But this time, now 19, she moved into Florence Crittenton, a home for at-risk, unwed young women….Its clients are more likely to stay in school, learn life skills and give birth to healthy babies. For every $1 the program spends, it saves $4 in tax dollars, Executive Director Lisa Belton said.
OK, let’s be blunt – real blunt, because if we shy away from saying the obvious, from asking the hard questions that now are off limits (because of Political Correctness), we’re only dealing with results and not the root causes.
Plainly spoken concerning the War on Women – “You’re kidding me; go get a job!”
We previously had “Mythology 101: Imaginary War on Women” by Sue DeLemus and Jane Cormier. Now, US Congressman Joe Walsh sums up and answers this overgrown “forever” student with a riff on “hey, try being self-reliant for a change”: I think that it is hilarious that CREDO SuperPAC has put this video out there – … Read more
I AM WOMYN, HEAR ME…………………beg
“Please, Daddy Government, may I have some more condoms and Pills?”
How debasing to have to ask Government for a handout to engage in the most intimate of sexual relations? This gives lie to the idea that Progressives and Feminists want Big Government out of their bedrooms. Nay, they are inviting them in! After all, if Government cannot make those evil companies and churches give me a pregnancy and STD experience, well, I need to beg some more.
It used to be “hear me ROAR”, right? Sandra Fluke and those supporting her, while thinking they are using their outside voices, are really whimpering: “please provide for my needs”. Strong, independent, able to provide for themselves and the ability to compete equally against men? Wasn’t that the original point of feminism – the Matriarchy rising above Patriarchal society?
But isn’t this just a whole charade with Sandra Flake? You have this “reproductive justice” advocate, picking a religious Law school deliberately to be an agent provocateur to get free stuff KNOWING that it was against their theology – but perhaps this is not their ” moment in the sun”she and her fellow travelers think it is? Maybe, is the “full circle” moment? From Oppressed to Freedom to Oppression, for if you have to beg for stuff from Government for a roll in the hay, you are not free. Dependency is never free – not even from the Progressive “Freedom from Want”, for as Communism /Socialism has shown us, The Bigger the Government, the smaller the citizen. Given the backdrop of a $16 Trillion debt, it is clear that their selfishness to assuage their urges have addled any financial sense they have. It is the ME generation on steriods – you MUST give to me, even as I prostrate myself to Government.
Good going, dudettes – you swapped one Master for another – happy now? Or do you even realize it?
Reduced to begging. Does that make the Feminists the “useful idiots” of Progressives who are ALL about central control, who do not trust citizens with their own freedom, and who must be dancing in the halls thinking “hey, we got another group dependent on us!” Who are all about taking away our precious Liberty and go back to the Oppression that reigned over most before the Declaration of Independence, all in the name of Equality (like the French Revolution worked out well) ).
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