
With our November elections looming there is an almost constant stream of political attack ads polluting our Televisions, radios, and computer screens. Name calling and mudslinging has been the norm on our American airwaves, with Joe Biden simultaneously making his usual “comedic” rounds. His last gaffe about “the whole load” made me laugh hard for at least 2 hours.
However, with that pushed aside there is a much more worthy subject that I would like to write about that has been seemingly ignored this election season by other so-called “less moronic than Joe” liberals – Debt and Poverty. With one truth telling unbiased glance at today’s America, it is easy to see that the intended purpose for certain parts of Johnson’s so-called “great society” have failed miserably.
For those who don’t know, or who would like to forget, “The Great Society” was a set of domestic programs proposed or enacted in the United States on the initiative of President Lyndon B. Johnson, many of which are still being used today in all of their bloated big government glory. The Great society began as “Help for the impoverished,” which morphed into Welfare and food stamps, which again mutated into our modern day S.N.A.P., “Obama gub’ment checks” and “OBAMAPHONE!”
As you can tell I am not a fan of some of the provisions made by LBJ and this is why. In an Article entitled “The 2011 Poverty Rate: What to Expect and How Long Will It Last?” From the The Center on Children and Families at Brookings, the 2011 poverty rate is predicted to be at 15.5 percent for adults and 22.8 percent for children, which is up a total of almost 3 Percent across the board since Obama claimed the Presidency.
It went on to tell, “Looking beyond 2011, we predict a rate of 15.6 for 2012 and a rate that remains above 15 percent for the next four years. By 2020, the poverty rate is expected to decline to around 14 percent, but our analysis suggests it will be many years before it returns to anything approaching the rate achieved before the recession began. With cuts in social spending for lower-income families slated to occur over the next decade, the outlook for the poor looks grim.”
This proves that poverty is not a “big city” problem but rather a national problem. Nationally we are drowning in massive debt, home foreclosures, job loss, and overall low morale while at the same time there is supposed to be many governmental programs in place designed to shore up against such an impoverished crisis.
Simply put, they aren’t working!
I believe that many of the very programs set up by our bloated government to fight against poverty have created poverty! How can you create wealth by dividing it? A house divided cannot stand, neither can an unemployed worker create production to employ and create more workers! How do you “pay in” to the system to protect against poverty, when you aren’t being paid? Truthfully speaking, when have you ever seen a “liberal bleeding heart” help anyone “get out of the ghetto?”
Election time in “liberal land” has always been about “throwing bones” to seem righteous, and “making people shut up and vote for them.” It has never been about “hope and change” but “slope and stock exchange.” Look at how many poor liberals have become millionaires after being elected, and you’ll know this is true. (Note: the Obama duo are allegedly billionaires, with alleged millions off-shore and billions to allegedly gain with the implementation of Obamacare.)
Unless we get America moving again with actually tangible and wide-scale production, sadly we will slip more and more into poverty. The percentages of those listed as “in poverty” will grow drastically with each and every passing day that this does not happen. S.N.A.P. cards and Gub’ment checks are only the answer to destroy the country, not build it up. The gap is widening into the truly poor on one side of this sadistic balance and the elitist rich on the other. If there is no true change soon, there will be no solid ground for the middle class to stand.
It’s an old cliché but a needed one if we are to ever lift us up out of poverty, “Buy American, today!” In closing I wanted to give a quote from a very smart man who sadly died in 2005, before our Obama debacle…please heed its call before it is too late!
“You cannot legislate the poor into freedom by legislating the wealthy out of freedom. What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving. The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else. When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them, and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work because somebody else is going to get what they work for, that my dear friend, is about the end of any nation. You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it.” – The late Dr. Adrian Rogers, 1931- 2005, former Pastor of Belleview Baptist Church, Memphis, TN
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November 1st, 2012 at 4:24 pm
Great first article, Jeremy. Welcome aboard!
We began undoing the Great Society mentality under Reagan and Clinton. You are right they are a failure, by and large, something everyone recognized 20 years ago. But the public seems to have short memories. They are back in spades under Obama.
November 1st, 2012 at 4:32 pm
It used to be a shameful thing to “collect” from the government. Today, our entitlement culture has been a cancerous tumor to our American economy. People need to take a lesson from the ancient Romans. They had entitlement programs too! And they became such a burden that they weakened their military enough to open a pathway to their destruction… Obamaland gotta’ go!
November 1st, 2012 at 4:33 pm
Thank you for your kind comments!
November 1st, 2012 at 5:04 pm
Thanks ! Jeremy
BTW 47% of all returning Combat Veterans are
applying for Delayed Stress Syndrome Disability
Benefits.
I have a ‘friend’ doing it. The benefits are most generous and they are For Life.
November 1st, 2012 at 5:42 pm
Let’s see, the last week on InTrade.
Seven days ago Obama was just under 60% for the probability of being elected.
Today?
68.6%
Uh, oh.
November 1st, 2012 at 5:59 pm
Intrade is in Ireland, isn’t it? It sounds like more Biden “Malarkey blarney” LOL
But, if it is true it is only because the naive have been sucked into the “Christie/Obama lovefest”
November 1st, 2012 at 6:01 pm
And as usual, cheering with Koolaid to avoid the issues.
November 1st, 2012 at 6:55 pm
WTF?
Oblahblah heads to Lost Vegas?
Harriet Reid serving pompusgranite pie?
Geezus BRay is about effective as a one legged man in a a** kicking contest.
Back to painting the new bathroom.
12 trees cut down this week.Roofer dude might be a no show….but the Rock guy was beyond brilliant.
November 1st, 2012 at 8:15 pm
“but the Rock guy was beyond brilliant.”
Thats just the rocks talking
November 2nd, 2012 at 4:22 am
Mick-
I won’t even begin to tell ya about the DIRT dude…
LMAO
November 2nd, 2012 at 5:44 am
Great article, Jeremy! Welcome to RP!
November 2nd, 2012 at 5:51 am
Thank you Andy Z!
November 2nd, 2012 at 7:02 am
It is interesting that red states trend towards taking more money than taxes paid, whereas blue states trend towards the opposite.
Highest 10 receivers of federal money:
1. D.C. (blue, also not technically a state)
2. North Dakota (red)
3. New Mexico (blue)
4. Mississippi (red)
5. Alaska (red)
6. West Virginia (red)
7. Montana (red)
8. Alabama (red)
9. South Dakota (red)
10. Arkansas (red)
That’s 8 out of 10 states being red. It’s also worth noting that a great majority of the most educated states are blue, whereas the great majority of the least educated are red. Also (since Republicans love touting morality) all 10 of the top 10 states with the highest divorce rates are red.
The difference between the Republican mentality of collecting entitlements vs the Democratic mentality is that Republicans have a ‘f*ck you, I’ve got mine’ way of thinking. Republicans are incredibly selfish and hypocritical.
Also, Jesus was a Democrat
November 2nd, 2012 at 7:06 am
I guess ‘Jesus was a liberal’ would be more accurate.
November 2nd, 2012 at 7:26 am
“The difference between the Republican mentality of collecting entitlements vs the Democratic mentality is that Republicans have a ‘f*ck you, I’ve got mine’ way of thinking. Republicans are incredibly selfish and hypocritical.”
You never did point out the difference you idiot
November 2nd, 2012 at 7:30 am
Okay, I’ll spell it out for you since you have a terrible time drawing conclusions:
The difference between the Republican mentality of collecting entitlements vs the Democratic mentality is that Republicans have a ‘f*ck you, I’ve got mine’ way of thinking, whereas Democrats do not.
November 2nd, 2012 at 7:32 am
Heres the difference.
“BOSTON — States with the least religious residents are also the stingiest about giving money to charity, a new study on the generosity of Americans suggests.
The study, released Monday by the Chronicle of Philanthropy, found that residents in states where religious participation is higher than the rest of the nation, particularly in the South, gave the greatest percentage of their discretionary income to charity.
The Northeast, with lower religious participation, was the least generous to charities, with the six New England states filling the last six slots among the 50 states. Churches are among the organizations counted as charities by the study, and some states in the Northeast rank in the top 10 when religious giving is not counted.
The most generous state was Utah, where residents gave 10.6 percent of their discretionary income to charity. Next were Mississippi, Alabama, Tennessee and South Carolina. The least generous was New Hampshire, at 2.5 percent, followed by Maine, Vermont, Massachusetts and Rhode Island.
In Boston, semi-retired carpenter Stephen Cremins said the traditional New England ideal of self-sufficiency might explain the lower giving, particularly during tight times when people have less to spare.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/20/study-less-religious-stat_n_1810425.html
November 2nd, 2012 at 7:34 am
“The Most Generous States: Republican and Religious”
http://abcnews.go.com/Business/generous-states-charities-lean-republican/story?id=17030246#.UJPiMW_A-So
November 2nd, 2012 at 7:35 am
“In the color of money, red staters more charitable than blues”
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/aug/20/religion-politics-affect-americans-philanthropy/?page=all
November 2nd, 2012 at 7:37 am
“Study: Red states more charitable”
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0812/79888.html
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Republicans make more, and give more.
November 2nd, 2012 at 7:38 am
WASSUP JEREMY !
November 2nd, 2012 at 7:40 am
From your article:
But researchers caution that churchgoers are no more generous than secular Americans when donations to religious groups are excluded.
If you don’t count the 10% guilt-fee that churches ask for, then you got nothing. Also, is giving to a church really giving to charity?
November 2nd, 2012 at 7:48 am
“Also, Jesus was a Democrat ”
Look what that got him.
Some liberal Jew too lazy to work sold him out to the Romans for a handful of change.
I miss Sam Kinison
November 2nd, 2012 at 7:55 am
“If you don’t count the 10% guilt-fee that churches ask for, then you got nothing. Also, is giving to a church really giving to charity?”
Where you get “guilt fee” ?
Say what you want. We still give more.
I “Choose” to believe in God and along with that choice comes a life of altruism.
“Ask” is a far cry from the IRS locking you up for failing to meet mandates such as the ones in Obamacare which.
You say Jesus was a dem ?
With your analysis and hate of the church that makes no fcking sense.
You greedy ass holes ran the country broker than its ever been.
Shut up.
November 2nd, 2012 at 8:01 am
“But researchers caution that churchgoers are no more generous than secular Americans when donations to religious groups are excluded.”
Yeah, I thought I’d toss in the Huffy post just to pacify you.
Too bad those religious groups are on the right.
Which is my point, idjut.
Learn the difference between who donates to churches and what the churchs donate.
Go drink some coffee, away from Starbucks