paulitician
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Interesting article from John Nolte.
Charles Sykes Makes the Case That We Are a Nation of Moochers
Charles Sykes is a longtime Milwaukee talk-radio host and the prolific author of a number of books that helped to shape my personal political worldview, including 1988s eye-opening Profscam, and 1993s A Nation of Victims, two works as timely today as they were decades ago.
A Nation of Moochers: Americas Addiction to Getting Something for Nothing (St. Martins Press) was just released, and the fact that Im writing this at the very moment President Barack Obama is announcing yet another government plan (his fourth, I think) to bail out those victims who bought homes they couldnt afford, makes this informative and engaging page-turner feel about as urgent and timely as any author could hope for.
What you need to know up front is that Moochers isnt an attack on the poor or needy or, for that matter, a specific political party. In fact, from beginning to end, Sykes makes clear that as a country we have an obligation to feed the hungry and offer shelter to the homeless. Moreover, he isnt even targeting a particular group, which would be impossible without a sawed-off shotgun anyway, because Americas moochers come from every level of our society.
What Sykes is targeting is a mentality, a dangerous and un-American mentality that infects almost every aspect of our culture, and one that is currently being bred into our children by those on both the left and right who are empowered by fomenting and excusing the dependence, greed, and selfishness of others. From corporate welfare to school lunches for the well-to-do to Wall Street bailouts to paying millionaires not to grow crops to tax breaks for Hollywood gajillionires to unending unemployment benefits to disaster relief for those who havent suffered disasters to TARP, and finally, to the shameless who walk away from mortgages they can afford to pay what Sykes is exposing is that we are on the march to becoming Greece. Not just a European welfare state, but the kind of welfare state where the populace has been engineered by a nanny state to riot at the very thought of not being able to mooch the life to which they have become accustomed.
A large part of the problem is that thanks to those who control the levers of our media and culture, the only thing were taught to be ashamed of anymore is the act of attempting to shame someone. As a result, those who want instead of need, are openly and proudly grabbing all the goodies they can get their shameless hands on, and doing so at the expense of others. Worse still, those others haven't even been born yet.
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I began this thread expecting to find typical partisan attack on the poor. This is a breath of fresh air, Paul. I get sick of attacking people to defend my character (by people who don't even know me. Don't know why I even care.) It's "liberal loons, socialists, communists, etc..."; "extreme-right, fascist, racist, etc...". We go 'round and 'round, and never can come to an agreement.
This man does sound like a voice of reason. It isn't JUST the poor who feel that they are "entitled". It crosses every financial class. And some people (on both sides) refuse to see facts staring them in the face. And then....there are those of us in the middle of it.
Finally! A voice for the sane. This sounds like an interesting read. Thanks for posting.
You're welcome and thank you for actually taking the time to read the whole article. It really is fascinatiing. Most on this thread didn't even bother to read the article. The usual suspect nutters just jumped right in with their stale 'You a racist, evil rich people, OWS, BOOOOOOSH Blah Blah Blah' rhetoric.