“The only time you even see
the people is when you look down to see what it is you're stepping on.” —
Bonnie Bedelia as Holly McClane in “Die Hard 2” (1990)
As originally conceived in
1964 with LBJ's “Great
Society,” welfare programs were promoted as a temporary helping hand to
give the downtrodden a leg up. Today, this blatant economic redistribution
(read: War
on Poverty) has metastasized in a multi-generational government
dependence scheme. In essence, entitlement programs such as food stamps are
de facto bribes directed mostly at minority groups loyal to Democrats. For progressives
it's a simple numbers game: garnering enough votes to keep themselves
perpetually in high elective office.
Recall that the bottom 60%
of the population pays only
2% of federal income taxes. Therefore, this static underclass has virtually
no economic skin the game as they are promised—in exchange for their
ballots—more and more “free stuff” paid for by someone else. Vanquished
Bolshevik Bernie
Sanders' fantasy of “free” public college funded by the much demonized One
Percenters comes to mind. In other words, why work when one makes almost as
much by not working?
Cynical liberals like Nancy
Pelosi (and her fellow travelers like Hillary Clinton) love welfare. To elitist
dolts like her, food
stamps and unemployment insurance payouts are laughably among “best ways to
stimulate the economy.” This fascist
millionaire of the political ruling class knows all too well: if you can
influence an individual's stomach you can control their vote.
Despite an escalating $19.4 national debt, the cost
of welfare is now well over $1 trillion dollars per year. In fact, the use of
food stamps has become so common they are the go-to currency in many inner
cities. At present, 45 million Americans depend on taxpayers to put food on
their tables. Since taking office, Mr. Obama has added 5 million to that number,
and 10 million more to the Medicaid rolls.
How is all of this
government largesse “paid” for? By further raising economy-killing taxes as
well as the debt ceiling (by borrowing, at interest, more money from Communist
regimes like China). Hence, the reasons for the widespread economic malaise of
the Obama years are laid bare. A booming welfare state and outsourced jobs (due
to high corporate taxes and draconian regulations) have resulted in almost
eight years of a largely stagnant economy—and 93
million able bodied Americans out of the workforce.
The cherry on the pie of
this fiscal wasteland is the surprising
revelation that illegal alien recipients are paid approximately $1,000
dollars more in U.S. welfare benefits than American citizens. So, despite this
clear economic drain, the unchecked criminality (such as the murder of
innocents like American Kate
Steinle), the violent drug trade and the ever present danger of radical
Islamic terrorism, Hillary Clinton supports an open border policy. Why?
Beyond an unquenchable lust for power, the amoral Clintons are all about
self-interest via political calculations. To this end, her hope of future
amnesty for this underclass of foreign
invaders (border jumping squatters and those illegally overstaying visas)
forms yet another cultivated voting bloc for her ilk to steal elections by
diluting the will of the American people.
Related to welfare as a
political tool of manipulation, we've come full circle back to the politician
who started it all, Lyndon B. Johnson. At the time, this first modern
progressive president said privately, “I’ll have those n*ggers voting Democrat
for the next 200
years!” Like LBJ, Hillary Clinton is a disdainful
creature (read: Server-gate)
who counts on the duped and the poor (whom she cares nothing
for) to realize her own longstanding presidential ambitions.
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