It's all about understanding human nature.
For most of us.....heck, if someone is ready to give stuff away.....we're ready to take it. With no thought to how it weakens our character.
Obama's election victories are based on that.
But how happy with oneself can one be being dependent on others for their daily bread?
1.".. since President Obama took office, federal welfare spending has increased by 41 percent, more than $193 billion per year. Despite this government largess, more than 46 million Americans continue to live in poverty. Despite nearly $15 trillion in total welfare spending since Lyndon Johnson declared war on poverty in 1964, the poverty rate is perilously close to where we began more than 40 years ago.
Throwing money at the problem has neither reduced poverty nor made the poor self-sufficient."
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From LBJ on, the free give-aways, incentivizing the sort of behaviors that cause poverty rather than cure it, have been exactly the opposite of what made America great.
We were the land of opportunity, and that's what brought masses of immigrants.
Hard work, and the freedom to choose what is best or each, helped move folks up the ladder.
Here's one version:
2. "America, 1860s. On his family’s farm in upstate New York, 9-year-old Almanzo Wilder grows up—working. He embraces considerable responsibility, and he yearns for more. Then the boy receives an offer of apprenticeship from the owner of the wagon shop in town.
Almanzo’s father explains to him the benefits of the shop job versus farming: an easier life, shelter from the weather, fewer worries, plenty to eat, money in the bank. “But there’s the other side, too, Almanzo,” James Wilder says. “You’d have to depend on other folks, son, in town. Everything you got, you’d get from other folks. A farmer depends on himself, and the land and the weather. If you’re a farmer, you raise what you eat, you raise what you wear, and you keep warm with wood out of your own timber. You work hard, but you work as you please, and no man can tell you to go or come. You’ll be free and independent, son, on a farm.”
That comes from Laura Ingalls Wilder’s biographical bookFarmer Boy." Choose Hard Work Or Comfy Gratification - theTrumpet.com
3. But isn't it better if the government simply gives folks what they want?
So saith the Liberals/Progressives/ Democrats:
a. "Pelosi: Obamacare allows workers to ‘escape’ their jobs
The Congressional Budget Office says Obamacare will take people out of the labor force — and the law’s supporters say that’s a good thing." Pelosi Obamacare allows workers to escape their jobs The Daily Caller
b. "Pelosi: We Must Pass Obamacare So Artists Can Quit Their Day Jobs PELOSI: Think of an economy where people could be an artist or a photographer or, eh, a writer without worrying about keeping their day job in order to have health insurance, or that people could start a business and be entrepreneurial and take risk but not [be] job-locked because a child has asthma or someone in the family is bipolar. You name it. Any condition is job-blocking. " Pelosi We Must Pass Obamacare So Artists Can Quit Their Day Jobs - The Rush Limbaugh Show
How far can this plan go?
Where does the money come from?
“The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.”
― Margaret Thatcher
For most of us.....heck, if someone is ready to give stuff away.....we're ready to take it. With no thought to how it weakens our character.
Obama's election victories are based on that.
But how happy with oneself can one be being dependent on others for their daily bread?
1.".. since President Obama took office, federal welfare spending has increased by 41 percent, more than $193 billion per year. Despite this government largess, more than 46 million Americans continue to live in poverty. Despite nearly $15 trillion in total welfare spending since Lyndon Johnson declared war on poverty in 1964, the poverty rate is perilously close to where we began more than 40 years ago.
Throwing money at the problem has neither reduced poverty nor made the poor self-sufficient."
Scribd
From LBJ on, the free give-aways, incentivizing the sort of behaviors that cause poverty rather than cure it, have been exactly the opposite of what made America great.
We were the land of opportunity, and that's what brought masses of immigrants.
Hard work, and the freedom to choose what is best or each, helped move folks up the ladder.
Here's one version:
2. "America, 1860s. On his family’s farm in upstate New York, 9-year-old Almanzo Wilder grows up—working. He embraces considerable responsibility, and he yearns for more. Then the boy receives an offer of apprenticeship from the owner of the wagon shop in town.
Almanzo’s father explains to him the benefits of the shop job versus farming: an easier life, shelter from the weather, fewer worries, plenty to eat, money in the bank. “But there’s the other side, too, Almanzo,” James Wilder says. “You’d have to depend on other folks, son, in town. Everything you got, you’d get from other folks. A farmer depends on himself, and the land and the weather. If you’re a farmer, you raise what you eat, you raise what you wear, and you keep warm with wood out of your own timber. You work hard, but you work as you please, and no man can tell you to go or come. You’ll be free and independent, son, on a farm.”
That comes from Laura Ingalls Wilder’s biographical bookFarmer Boy." Choose Hard Work Or Comfy Gratification - theTrumpet.com
3. But isn't it better if the government simply gives folks what they want?
So saith the Liberals/Progressives/ Democrats:
a. "Pelosi: Obamacare allows workers to ‘escape’ their jobs
The Congressional Budget Office says Obamacare will take people out of the labor force — and the law’s supporters say that’s a good thing." Pelosi Obamacare allows workers to escape their jobs The Daily Caller
b. "Pelosi: We Must Pass Obamacare So Artists Can Quit Their Day Jobs PELOSI: Think of an economy where people could be an artist or a photographer or, eh, a writer without worrying about keeping their day job in order to have health insurance, or that people could start a business and be entrepreneurial and take risk but not [be] job-locked because a child has asthma or someone in the family is bipolar. You name it. Any condition is job-blocking. " Pelosi We Must Pass Obamacare So Artists Can Quit Their Day Jobs - The Rush Limbaugh Show
How far can this plan go?
Where does the money come from?
“The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.”
― Margaret Thatcher
