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Quotes worthy of note: Government dependency…

September 26, 2018October 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

Parliment of Whores Update – ‘Fore’ More Years

September 26, 2018September 5, 2012 Steve MacDonald

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

Passing the Buck on Welfare Work Requirements

September 26, 2018August 20, 2012 Steve MacDonald

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

Backwards

September 26, 2018August 8, 2012 Steve MacDonald

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=0F4LtTlktm0

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

September 26, 2018August 5, 2012 Skip

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, there were a few that were on State assistance that also in this category, but mighty few. For the majority, it was expected and sometimes, more was DEMANDED (and sometimes, got mad when we expected them to do something for themselves / kids). So, when this came in, a thank you, I decided to post it (emphasis mine, name redacted):

Ancient Rome, America today, and TR…

September 26, 2018May 3, 2012 NITZAKHON

He wasn't right on everything, but he nailed it in this quote.

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 without reward according to his own convictions, and who with his fellows formed in war the terrible Roman legion, had been changed into an idle creature who craved nothing in life save the gratification of a thirst for vapid excitement, who was fed by the state, and directly or indirectly…

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Leftist-Progressives: Always The Dependable Deniers

September 26, 2018April 11, 2012 Rick Olson

“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 sponsoring legislation that would require Health and Human Services to cross-check recipients in an effort to save taxpayer money to root out potential welfare fraud.

Naturally, any astute observer who has long followed the conversation on public entitlements can nearly guess, as if looking into a crystal ball, what the push-back is going to look like. And true to their principles of class warfare and legalized theft, opponents of this effort are dependable.

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

September 26, 2018February 29, 2012 Skip

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

Building the American Underclass

September 26, 2018February 17, 2012 Steve MacDonald

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.”

The Ascension of Democrat Voters

September 26, 2018January 29, 2012 Steve MacDonald

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 interesting to see if the Democrats try to frame Rep Kurk, the sole sponsor of HB 1658, as another Republican Extremist. Ideologically he is a GOP moderate, his NHHRA ratings put him near the RINO category, and if anything he fits the Democrats Free Stater legislative profile (another left wing narrative) more than anything.

But he has gotten a 100% rating from NARAL and as far as I can tell supports wide open access to contraceptives. So he’s all in on reproductive freedom, and fully embraces the lefts doctrine, right up to the point where it starts to cost taxpayers buckets of money–and then it stops. With great freedom comes great responsibility. Rep Kurk understands that sometimes people need help, but that we are not meant to be slaves to other peoples freedoms, including so called reproductive freedoms, and to that end we have HB 1658.

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

September 26, 2018January 29, 2012 Skip

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 15 kids by 3 “baby daddies”, what was worse was the attitude display by her:

“Somebody Needs to Pay For All My Children“

“Somebody needs to be held accountable, and they need to pay.”

(H/T: Weasel Zippers) The Welfare State gone crazy? No, it hasn’t. What is shown here is the actual logical endgame of the Liberal philosophy that allows bad behavior to continue under the guise of “she needs help”. Yes, indeed she does – but not the type I think she requires (think: a humungous dose of traditional morality). Yes, those children are in a bad situation – no doubt about that. However in this case, the Liberal philosophy that places personal sexual / libertine behavior off limits for discussion is shown for the fraud it really is – and the result is now clear that it places lots of children at risk. Tell me, Libs – how is this result showing “we care more than Conservatives”? There are Progressives that hold the State should not become involved in the intimate life of that woman (except when it is a minor female child – then they have no problem involving Govt in abortions without Parental Notification), but here’s the rub – they have no problem in having the State pay for the consequences of that philosophy.

Except they also expect us all to just pay for the cost of their failed policy. And that is where NH HB1658 comes in.

The Food Stamp Nation and Its’ President

September 26, 2018January 24, 2012 Rick Olson

“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 Jackson, Mississippi posited an editorial where his underlying thesis was, “a one-parent family of three making $14,500 a year (minimum wage) has more disposable income than a family making $60,000 a year.” (See Emmerich’s Editorial in its entirety, Here)

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

September 26, 2018November 22, 2011 Skip

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?

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

September 26, 2018November 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 Ho’s, just money for 50-pound bags of rice and beans, blocks of cheese and all the powdered milk you can haul away. If you want steak and frozen pizza…

Get rid of it! Star Parker on Government sponsored welfare

September 26, 2018November 5, 2011 Skip

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

SHORT BUS ECONOMICS

September 26, 2018October 17, 2011 Rick Olson

“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

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

September 26, 2018October 3, 2011 Rick Olson

**“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 Carol Shea-Porter, Shaheen brings home the bacon … To wit: a $1.4 million federal grant to pay for six new police officers; Providing four for Manchester and one each for Pelham and Claremont.

Not a new scheme at all. During the Clinton years we see how well it worked here in the Queen city the last time the Federal Nanny doled out money for cops. And as always, there is an end on the horizon for that funding which only segues the bitter fiscal fight also on the horizon. Police administrators, Union hacks and those in city government with a shameless fealty for tax and spend policies to keep those positions, will seek to have them funded on the backs of local taxpayers. Epic Fail. This latest grant is a mere redux of the same scheme.

Senator Shaheen is the epitome a big-government liberal. She does not respect local government, nor the people who elected her. This is a clear second example of such in just a few short months where Shaheen advocated for the Feds to contract locally with Planned Parenthood in the wake of the Executive Council’s vote not to fund Planned Parenthood services in the Granite State. Now she gives Manchester government a back-handed slap.

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

September 26, 2018October 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 costs finally equate to an implosion as we see in Greece or California.

"We all know what will save us and what is destroyinging us."