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The Size of the US Welfare State Has Exploded!

There’s still a problem here that isn’t going to clear itself out anytime soon. “The New York Times practically wet itself the other day noting that during COVID, the United States “built a European-style welfare state,” and isn’t it a tragedy that we gave it all up.”

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Walter Williams on the Welfare State

“We have abandoned many personal freedoms. The primary justification for the attack on private property and economic freedom and privacy, I might add,  can be found in peoples desire for  Government to do good.”

Burning-Money

“I Am Here from the Government and I’m Here to Help You”. Never Mention, It Was Government That Screwed Things up in the First Place.

“Veto Day” Political Machinations – and out of touch with Founding and NH GOP Platform Principles Once again, our solons have failed to learn from history – Davy Crocket (scroll more to the bottom). Posting is low for me today – just one of those sleepless nights again.  However, this came in over the email …

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Money down the toilet

Democrats’ Spending

The Democrats are pushing to spend more money than most Americans can truly conceive.  The Senate, with the help of some Republicans, signed off on what is called the “Infrastructure Bill” for about 1.2 trillion dollars.

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Notable Quote – No, it wasn’t Slavery that broke Black families; it was White Progressives with “good intentions” that did

Empirical evidence has likewise seldom been mentioned by those who make a common claim, advanced by [Nicholas] Kristof among many others, that “Slavery and post-slavery oppression left a legacy of broken families” among blacks. But the plain fact is that the proportion of black children living with only one parent was never as great during …

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If BLM Gets its Way – Then What?

Not the first time the question has been broached, and baby, it won’t be the last. What happens next? Black Lives Matter wants what it wants. Their advocates carry that water, but to what end?  Not equality nor equity nor anything but more misery.

Welfare State

Notable Quote: The Welfare State – the greatest means of control over a population ever created

That is, besides an evil Government that disarms its citizenry and then uses ITS guns to control people. Emphasis mine: The poverty we have today is spiritual poverty. Spiritual poverty is an absence of what traditionally has been known as various human virtues. Much of that spiritual poverty is a result of public and private …

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Thomas Sowell Welfare State

Notable Quote – George Will, Prof. Don Boudreaux

[Welfare] states presuppose economic dynamism sufficient to generate investments, job creation, corporate profits, and individuals’ incomes from which come tax revenues needed to fund entitlements. But welfare states produce in citizens an entitlement mentality and a low pain threshold. That mentality inflames appetites for more entitlements, broadly construed to include all government benefits and protections …

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Another Green Deal Breaker That Dooms The Democrat’s Entire Welfare State Agenda

Did you hear the one about the Democrat freshman Congresswoman who said we need to start having fewer children (or none at all)? Save the planet and all that. She’s also on team Welfare State. Medicaid for all. Free College. Guaranteed Income. A mission impossible if there are not enough people alive to pay the …

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