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Interesting take from Patrick Chisholm.
So much for hope and change; Yes, we can; and the grammatically questionable change we can believe in. After three years of Barack Obama, the verdict is in. The official slogan for the era of Obama should be: Dude, wheres my welfare?
Also right up there is Dude, wheres my job? But top honors should go to Dude wheres my welfare? because it so embodies the swelling number of Americans becoming dependent on government handouts under Obama.
There were high hopes when Mr. Obama got elected that he would be viewed, to use Colin Powells phrase, as a transformational figure. Oh, hes been transformational all right transforming millions of people into wards of the state.
At least six million more, so far. When he took office about 62 million, or 19.8 percent of all Americans, received government assistance. In 2010 it was about 68 million, or 21.8 percent. Obamacare is set to increase that figure by tens of millions.
Theres a pretty good chance that you, reader, either are getting government handouts or live with someone who does. Or if youre not, you probably know people who do. In 2010 (the most recent year for which stats are available) 48.5 percent of the U.S. population lived in a household that received some type of government benefit. That was up from 44.4 percent in 2008.
The governments main function is now wealth redistribution: coercing money from some people and giving it to other people in the form of food stamps, Section 8 housing, Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, Social Security Disability, unemployment benefits, government pensions, etc.
Read more: Dude, where's my welfare? | The Daily Caller
So much for hope and change; Yes, we can; and the grammatically questionable change we can believe in. After three years of Barack Obama, the verdict is in. The official slogan for the era of Obama should be: Dude, wheres my welfare?
Also right up there is Dude, wheres my job? But top honors should go to Dude wheres my welfare? because it so embodies the swelling number of Americans becoming dependent on government handouts under Obama.
There were high hopes when Mr. Obama got elected that he would be viewed, to use Colin Powells phrase, as a transformational figure. Oh, hes been transformational all right transforming millions of people into wards of the state.
At least six million more, so far. When he took office about 62 million, or 19.8 percent of all Americans, received government assistance. In 2010 it was about 68 million, or 21.8 percent. Obamacare is set to increase that figure by tens of millions.
Theres a pretty good chance that you, reader, either are getting government handouts or live with someone who does. Or if youre not, you probably know people who do. In 2010 (the most recent year for which stats are available) 48.5 percent of the U.S. population lived in a household that received some type of government benefit. That was up from 44.4 percent in 2008.
The governments main function is now wealth redistribution: coercing money from some people and giving it to other people in the form of food stamps, Section 8 housing, Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, Social Security Disability, unemployment benefits, government pensions, etc.
Read more: Dude, where's my welfare? | The Daily Caller