The Return of the Welfare State
October 24, 2013 · By Bob Ellis · 0 Comments
Did you know that in 5 years of the Obama Administration, the federal government has spent 62% as much on welfare in those five years as the United States spent in the 30 years following President Lyndon Johnson’s “War on Poverty?”
Yes, according to the U.S. Senate Committee on the Budget, we have spent $3.7 TRILLION on welfare in the last five years on 80 different welfare programs. For those of you who remember the landmark welfare reform brought about by Republicans following the 1994 “Republican revolution,” it was commonly acknowledged at that time that we had spent $6 trillion in the 30 year “War on Poverty”…only to see thepoverty rate increase slightly. Not decrease. Increase. Until Republicans knocked the wheels off the gravy train, you had generations of families on welfare.
In 2009, President Obama and a Democrat Senate and House eagerly set about dismantling the welfare reform Republicans instituted a little more than a decade earlier (the first time Democrats had been in power to have a chance to dismantle it). The Democrats brought back the “welfare queens,” put large numbers of Americans back on the government plantation, and began finding new and innovative ways to urinate away the hard-earned dollars of producing Americans.
We have federal funding for frat students, free lunches for all, Obamaphones, health care dependencyportals, pickup truck driving rocker surfer dudes buying lobster and fish on the taxpayer’s dime, welfare recipients buying and dumping bottled water for cash, millionaires on food stamps, and more Americans on “disability” than live in New York City.
Sadly, Republicans haven’t done much to reverse this trend since Tea Party patriots gave them control of the House back and increased numbers in the Senate in 2010; they’ve been too busy surrendering to what Democrats want.
One American is not entitled to the earnings and property of another American. Our constitution doesn’t allow this wealth redistribution, even though it has eclipsed the constitutional spending on defense. This isn’t how America was designed to operate and it was not how America operated until the last several decades. It’s bad for the country, bad for the American people, and people aren’t entitled to the earnings of another against their will.
A free nation can’t continue on when it’s busy consuming itself. Let’s restore sanity now.
HT: Free Republic
Yes, according to the U.S. Senate Committee on the Budget, we have spent $3.7 TRILLION on welfare in the last five years on 80 different welfare programs. For those of you who remember the landmark welfare reform brought about by Republicans following the 1994 “Republican revolution,” it was commonly acknowledged at that time that we had spent $6 trillion in the 30 year “War on Poverty”…only to see thepoverty rate increase slightly. Not decrease. Increase. Until Republicans knocked the wheels off the gravy train, you had generations of families on welfare.
In 2009, President Obama and a Democrat Senate and House eagerly set about dismantling the welfare reform Republicans instituted a little more than a decade earlier (the first time Democrats had been in power to have a chance to dismantle it). The Democrats brought back the “welfare queens,” put large numbers of Americans back on the government plantation, and began finding new and innovative ways to urinate away the hard-earned dollars of producing Americans.
We have federal funding for frat students, free lunches for all, Obamaphones, health care dependencyportals, pickup truck driving rocker surfer dudes buying lobster and fish on the taxpayer’s dime, welfare recipients buying and dumping bottled water for cash, millionaires on food stamps, and more Americans on “disability” than live in New York City.
Sadly, Republicans haven’t done much to reverse this trend since Tea Party patriots gave them control of the House back and increased numbers in the Senate in 2010; they’ve been too busy surrendering to what Democrats want.
One American is not entitled to the earnings and property of another American. Our constitution doesn’t allow this wealth redistribution, even though it has eclipsed the constitutional spending on defense. This isn’t how America was designed to operate and it was not how America operated until the last several decades. It’s bad for the country, bad for the American people, and people aren’t entitled to the earnings of another against their will.
A free nation can’t continue on when it’s busy consuming itself. Let’s restore sanity now.
HT: Free Republic
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