Yep. As the chart clearly illustrates, total welfare spending in the U.S. (if converted into cash payments) equals approximately “$168 per day for every household in poverty,” higher than the $137 median income per-day.
From the senator’s office:
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As a counterbalance to the Entitlement mentality,
Yesterday I put up this post where a caller to a talk show made it clear that her expectation (demand?) is that others are responsible for taking care of her and her children. There was no discussion of voluntarily helping her, only the vagueness of Hillary’s “it takes a village” – in this case, the village WILL pay for my family because I had more kids than I can support.
Therefore, a palate cleanser is in order – Senator Rand Paul addressed this mentality back when Obamacare was being debated and he went right to the heart of the matter:
Bonus: I STILL love the video of Rand giving the you know what to an Dept of Energy flack over toilets:
There is your classic Obama voter: “Gimme cell phones, gimme free stuff”.
Arizona Senator Frank Antenori: That is the attitude in this country. There is your classic Obama voter: “Gimme cell phones, gimme free stuff”. Oh My God! “I want to have as many kids as I want and you got to pay for it”. We’ve all heard the saying, “it takes a village to raise a … Read more
Federal Government – Sure, they’re good stewards of taxpayer monies….#FAIL
The question we ask today is not whether our government is too big or too small, but whether it works — whether it helps families find jobs at a decent wage, care they can afford, a retirement that is dignified.”
– President Barack Obama, Inauguration, 1/20/09
In October of 2010, The U.S. Government Services Administration spent over $835,000 on a four-day “training” conference for 300 GSA employees…held at a luxury hotel outside Las Vegas.
This was in a post from The Corner that was in response to the same news:
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Rebuttal to Alison Therriault – No, there is no extreme jeopardy to women’s right to control their lives in NH
I submitted this in rebuttal to a Letter to the Editor in the Laconia Daily Sun (P. 7, March 23, 2012) (slightly expanded here):
It used to be that becoming an adult meant becoming independent and being self-responsible for their own well-being. Economic dependency on family was left behind along with the toys of childhood. It meant sober realization that what one wants, one earns. “Deserves” becomes relegated to childhood status;”earned”, its mature replacement.
Ms. Therriault shows her wish for maturity in stating “I control my body”. True enough; that’s what adults do – exhibit self-control. You have the ability to decide, within the statistical limits of reliable birth control and human discipline, how many children to have, when to have them, and when to start that family (it seems, too, that marriage is becoming more and more optional in today’s society. No wonder single moms are becoming the biggest proponents of “Government that gives you more with other peoples’ money” but that is grist for another letter).
It’s Town election season here in NH – and teachers are being closely looked at: If Bedford teachers want to leave, let them go
From another email that was inbound was this Letter concerning teachers and taxes from a town other than mine. From the folks that I hear from, whose jobs and companies have been affected by globalization in commodity products and services, there seems to be a growing resentment towards government workers who have absolutely no empathy … Read more
Then There Are “These” Refugee Costs
“All institutions are prone to corruption and to the vices of their members.” —Morris West
Beatrice Munyenyezi has resided nearby here in Manchester since 2002 . Like many others who have come to the United States as Refugees, Munyenyezi came to raise her children, work and, essentially, “live the American Dream.” But also unlike many other refugees, Munyenyezi presently stands accused of personally participating in the Rwandan genocide, as an extremist Hutu who not only killed, but had a hand in the rapes of untold Tutsi victims.
U.S. Immigration in its’ U.S. District Court complaint in Concord, accuses Munyenyezi of lying to enter the United States to gain citizenship. Currently behind bars without bail, Munyenyezi is slated to begin trial this Wednesday on fraud charges.
Building the American Underclass
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 relevant observations. A doctor with the British Health Service (Blimey Obamacare), he has and continues to write at great length about the victims of government largess, and the sorry state of his country as a result of it.
In a recent article in City Journal, he wrote…”The riots are the apotheosis of the welfare state and popular culture in their British form.”
John Hawkins at RightWingNews nails THE problem of the United States today
That would include the Political Class as well. Anyone that says “You owe me simply because I exist” should immediately be cut off. Mean? Which is meaner: demanding that someone take care of them (as most that do the demanding could provide for themselves, at least in part), or demanding that someone take care of … Read more