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Free Democracy: Mr. Romney's Missing Details

freedemocracy.blogspot.com12/6/11

Here's a reminder: It would cut food stamps by $127 billion, which would remove millions of people from the rolls during a downturn and cut the benefits of those who remain. Nearly two-thirds of Mr. Ryan's cuts affect low-income programs like Pell grants, housing subsidies and Medicaid. That's never mentioned by Mr. Romney, who instead talks about big cuts to tiny programs that are wildly unpopular with the party base, like the national endowments, family planning …

Feds Raid Million Dollar Home of Welfare Recipient in Washington …

conservativebyte.com12/5/11

I was in line behind a family that probably was living like the one in the article as they paid for almost $400 worth of food with food stamps. They had some … This is why Medicare and Medicaid is in deep $hit. People abusing …

 

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The following advice appeared in the Waco Tribune Herald on Nov 18, 2010

*I’d be happy to give a link to the article but only subscribers to the newspaper can view it.

It appeared under letters to the editor, and was written by a twenty one year old female.

It’s her future shes worried about and this is how she feels about the social welfare big government state that shes being forced to live in!

Fixing Social Security; Put me in charge of welfare, Medicare and housing grants!

The problems we face today are there because the people who work for a living are outnumbered by those Who vote for a living!

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, then get a job.

Put me in charge of Medicaid. The first thing I’d do is to get women Norplant birth control implants or tubal ligations. Then, we’ll test recipients for drugs, alcohol, and nicotine and document all tattoos and piercings. If you want to reproduce or use drugs, alcohol, smoke or get tats and piercings, then get a job.

Put me in charge of government housing. Ever live in a military barracks? You will maintain our property in a clean and good state of repair. Your "home" will be subject to inspections anytime and possessions will be inventoried. If you want a plasma TV or Xbox 360, then get a job and your own place.

In addition, you will either present a check stub from a job each week or you will report to a "government" job. It may be cleaning the roadways of trash, painting and repairing public housing, whatever we find for you. We will sell your 22 inch rims and low profile tires and your blasting stereo and speakers and put that money toward the common good..

Before you write that I’ve violated someone’s rights, realize that all of the above is voluntary. If you want our money, accept our rules.. Before you say that this would be "demeaning" and ruin their "self esteem," consider that it wasn’t that long ago that taking someone else’s money for doing absolutely nothing was demeaning and lowered self esteem.

If we are expected to pay for other people’s mistakes w e should at least attempt to make them learn from their bad choices. The current system rewards them for continuing to make bad choices.

AND While you are on Govt subsistence, you no longer can VOTE! Yes that is correct. For you to vote would be a conflict of interest. You will voluntarily remove yourself from voting while you are receiving a Govt welfare check. If you want to vote, then get a job.

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BTW – I personally think that the author of the book, "How To Get Food Stamps, Welfare And Other Benefits", should be put in stocks and pelted with fruit and vegetables by all those that work for a living!

 

 

If you’re considered middle-class,

then it’s almost certain that Obama will soon break the promise that he made you,

when he wanted to get elected.

Taxes, The Stimulus Package And Unemployment

Higher Taxes

The projected deficit for 2010 is already $1.8 trillion, and a further $1+ trillion will be added to that, if the 10-year health care reform program gets added.

And even if it doesn’t get approved, then higher taxes still look inevitable.

Former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan recently warned that even if the deficit-neutral plan that is presently being peddled by Democrats to fund government-run health insurance program were somehow passed, that it wouldn’t be enough to prevent higher taxes.

Speaking of the baby boomers that are currently signing up for Medicare he said, “We have to attack both the original shortfall and make sure we fund whatever new initiatives that occur in the health care area. It’s not adequate to be strictly revenue-neutral, because there’s a lot more to be done”.

And Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner agrees, “We will not get this economy back on track and the recovery will be not be strong and sustained, unless we can convince the American people that we’re going to have the will to bring these deficits down once recovery is firmly established”.

When asked if it was, “a matter of when, and not if, taxes would be raised, Geithner responded, “That is absolutely right”.

The chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, Rep. Charles Rangel, D-N.Y. did not agree however, and said, “Under our statistics, 96% of small businesses would not be hurt by this tax. It’s less than 1% of the wealthiest people in the United States that would be taxed, and that’s at a 1% tax”.

The Stimulus Package

Administration officials say they hope to see positive economic growth before the end of the year, and they credit the $787 billion Recovery and Reinvestment Act that was passed in February with preventing recession from going into a deeper depression.

Mike Pence, who is the No. 3 Republican in the House, insists however that the economy is recovering in spite of the stimulus plan, and not because of it, and he is adamant that to get out of the recession, that it is the American people that need to be spending money and not the Government.

“Borrowing a trillion dollars from future generations of Americans and spreading it around the economy is going to have some catalytic effect in the economy in the short term, but again, it’s no substitute for fiscal discipline in Washington, D.C. This piecemeal approach of government handouts through a government bureaucracy, is no substitute for broad-based tax relief and fiscal discipline in Washington, D.C.”.

Unemployment

The Recovery and Reinvestment Act (the stimulus package) which was opposed by all but three Republicans in the House and Senate, was intended to help save, and/or even create between 3-4 million jobs, but unemployment which is now averaging 9.5% and is between 10-14% in some states, is now expected to keep rising for at least another six months.

Expressing the administration’s hopes, National Economic Council President Larry Summers said, “Jobs are a lagging indicator, and once output increases, jobs will start to pick up. I think we have a ways to go. I want to emphasize the basic realities. Unemployment is still very high in this country”, and he went on to add that it wouldn’t be a good idea to rule out future taxes.

"There is a lot that can happen over time, but what the president has been completely clear on is that he is not going to pursue any of his priorities, not health care, not energy, nothing . In ways that are primarily burdening middle-class families.

That is something that is not going to happen".

P.S.

A few hours after writing the above, the following was published;

Just 16% of U.S. voters believe that tax increases help the economy.

A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds most voters (54%) say tax increases hurt the economy, a number that has been fairly consistent for more than a decade.

Fourteen percent (14%) say tax increases have no impact, and 16% are not sure.

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