Wednesday, February 1, 2012

The Poverty Myth: Social Justice Is About Bringing the Top Down

From Godfather Politics:

posted on JANUARY 30, 2012 by GARY DEMAR

The Poverty Myth: Social Justice Is About Bringing the Top Down

Filed under 2012 ELECTION, CULTURE, ECONOMICS, FINANCES, GOVERNMENT, JOBS, LIBERALISM, POLITICS, SOCIALISM, TAXES

This present administration is prepping the poor to vote for him this November. The dependency vote is big for Democrats. The “moochers” as radio personality Neal Boortz calls them, have learned how to game the system to their benefit. It’s like playing a slot machine that always pays.

Then there’s the black vote. We know that more than 90 percent of blacks vote Democrat because they believe the Party’s policies lift them up economically. Add to the mix that Obama’s black, and it’s a slam dunk.

A new study shows that “that the 46 million living below the so-called ‘poverty line’ live and spend pretty much like everyone else.” Consider the following:

Forget the image of Appalachia or rundown ghettos: A collection of federal household consumption surveys collected by pollster Scott Rasmussen finds that 74 percent of the poor own a car or truck, 70 percent have a VCR, 64 percent have a DVD [player], 63 percent have cable or satellite, 53 percent have a video game system, 50 percent have a computer, 30 percent have two or more cars and 23 percent use TiVo.

The government defines poverty one way for political purposes. They need more people in the poverty class in order to funnel money to them to make them dependent on government. What incentive is there for the poor to vote against their personal financial interests? Almost none.

Consider these statistics from two recent Department of Agriculture surveys cited in Rasmussen’s new book “The People’s Money”:

On an average day, just 1 percent of households have someone who is forced to miss a meal.

On any day, children are hungry in .25 percent of U.S. homes. [That’s ¼ of one percent.]

96 percent of poor parents say their children were never hungry during the year because they couldn’t afford food.

83 percent of the poor said they have enough to eat.

It’s not that there aren’t real poor families in America, but it’s not the numbers that Liberals throw at us. The food stamp crisis is due in part to recruitment. You’ve heard the commercials on the radio on how “you may be eligible for food stamps.”

Read the article “I Got Food Stamps and So Can You!” by an industrious student who showed how easy it is for college students to get an EBT card:

Approximately one month after I had received the first letter from [the Department of Human Services], another letter found its way to my mailbox from the Department of Human Services. I opened it up to find an EBT card with my name on it, instructions on how to activate and use the card, and the amount I could access on it per month — 200 dollars. Nothing followed-up my interview, other than the evidently pointless letter I received during the previous month. No one ever asked for a copy of my birth certificate or Social Security card, nor for my student identification card. I answered all of their questions truthfully, but how were they to know that I was who I said I was? Is it really this simple to obtain welfare benefits here in the United States?

As she shows, yes it is, and for a very good reason: A dependent voter is an obligated voter.

America Does NOT Want Change!

From Godfather Politics:

posted on FEBRUARY 1, 2012 by GIACOMO

America Does NOT Want Change!

Filed under 2012 ELECTION, CULTURE, ECONOMICS, GOVERNMENT, HEALTH CARE, HISTORY, LIBERALISM, MEDIA, POLITICS

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In the 2008 election, Sen Obama ran on a platform of change. He promised to change how things were done in Washington and he has lived up to that one promise.

Since taking office, the changes President Obama made were not for the good of Americans, but for the good of Obama and his socialist comrades. He increases the size of the federal government and the national debt. He forced a national healthcare program on the people. He took over the student loan program. Obama has made more executive orders than any president in history and regularly bypasses Congress, setting himself up as a dictator.

He gave America change and Americans didn’t like it. In 2010, the people reacted to Obama’s change and elected a wave of conservative Republicans and regained control of the House of Representatives. They also elected a number of Republican senators, but not quite enough to regain control of the Senate. A number of states elected Republican governors.

The people made their voice heard that they didn’t like the change that Obama gave them. They told their new Republican congressional rookies that they wanted them to make changes in Washington and not the kind that Obama was making.

Following the instructions given them by the voters, the new Republican House members stood and made their voices heard. They resisted following the status quo and fought against the traditional DC dealings such as the federal budget, irresponsibly raising the debt ceiling with no way of paying for it and the abhorrent policy of spending, spending, and more spending. GOP rookies demanded that cuts in spending had to be made in order to pay for all of these different pieces of legislation.

Everyone kept saying that Social Security is broken and that it can’t financially last much longer, but when the GOP freshman tried to make some changes to save the system, everyone turned on them including the American people, who told them to do just that. This type of thing happened nearly every time they tried to do what they were told by the voters to do.

The result was a stalemate between them and the established politicians of both parties, but especially the Senate Democrats. In 2011, we saw one stalemate after another. The American people became dismayed with not only the liberal politicians that wanted to continue with business as usual, but they also blamed the newly elected representatives for failing to accomplish what they had promised.

It seemed that the people listened to the liberal media that pointed the fingers of blame to those rookies the people sent into the game. Through the media spin game, the people are now blaming their elected newbies for bringing Congress to a virtual standstill.

Instead of realizing that the GOP rookies were actually doing everything they could to cause change in Washington, the people now blame them for accomplishing nothing and just playing politics. In reality, it was the Washington business as usual crowd that fought so rigorously against the changes the rookies were trying to make, but alas the rookies were viewed to be as equally at fault as the real culprits.

The fact is that the GOP freshmen class was doing everything in their power to make the changes the people instructed them to make, but when others fought harder against them, the people say they failed.

The same holds true at the state level where Republican governors tried to make the responsible changes within their states that the voters demanded they make. But when they started to make some of these changes such as cutting spending and controlling the budget, the people rebelled.

Take for instance the recall drive that has been launched against Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker. The voters gave Walker a mandate to reduce the state budget. Walker began making cuts and implementing legislation to help control the spending. But when those cuts and controls stepped on the toes of the people, they rebelled and are now trying to remove him from office.

The American people want Washington and their own states to make changes, but only if it doesn’t affect them. It’s okay to affect someone else, but no, don’t let those changes affect them personally. But if the lawmakers do make any of the necessary changes that the people mandated and those changes affect them, heaven help that lawmaker’s political career.

In reality, the only change Americans really want are those in theory but not practice, otherwise it might actually affect themselves and heaven forbid they would have to make any sacrifices for the sake of the nation. That’s for others to do.