Krauthammer doesn't 'get' it...he doesn't 'get' it at ALL.
He doesn't even 'get' what our founders created.
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights,
Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed"
We the People
ARE the government. Conservatives love to sever that seminal truth.
WHAT is America? Is it buildings, statues and concrete, or is it people? Liberals know the answer to that questions, do conservatives?
"Labor is the United States. The men and women, who with their minds, their hearts and hands, create the wealth that is shared in this country—they are America."
President Dwight D. Eisenhower
The only question liberals know the answer to is where the welfare checks are handed out.
Why don't you quit being so self righteous and say something meaningful ?
Since we (conservatives) are part of the people, we are going to darn well fight to make sure that our part of the "consent" piece is recognized and when you try to govern us to much against our consent, you get what you have now.....a mess.
Obamacare cuts my HSA limit in half. Thanks for making my healthcare more expensive.
Only liberals are on welfare? Talk about self righteous with a huge dose of obtuse.
It is so typical of conservatives to use welfare as an example, while they try to dismantle wonderful social programs like Social Security and Medicare. NO liberal supports lazy people collecting government checks. But liberals realize that is the minority, not the majority. And liberals also realize the half the humans in this country living in poverty are children. Are children expected to support themselves Listening?
But it is just another self centered justifications for creating an aristocracy, which is ALWAYS the aim of conservatism since man began walking upright. Here's your problem; your fairy tale requires other people to play along and conform to a role YOU supply for them.
EVERYTHING you post has the same earmarks; instead of learning and having facts create your view, you start with your far right wing view and ideology, then look for ammunition.
To try to CREATE social programs as the root cause is just another attempt to take your right wing social views and find any shed of evidence you can to blame liberals and protect the elite you worship.
The War on Poverty, what it is and isn't...
There's always the 'able bodied but lazy poor person', the 'bleeding heart liberal' who just wants to hand out other people's money and of course, the clear headed 'conservative' whose 'tough love' always saves the day. Well, I refuse to play along. Maybe you should gain the intelligence and curiosity to find out what the 'War on Poverty' was about and what it wasn't about. But it's a lot easier for you to define it under YOUR self righteous terms so you don't have to care. It is also predictable that you chose 'welfare', because that fits so neatly into your 'dependency' and 'entitlement' dismissal of others.
There are reasons for and realities to poverty, you have focused on the least of them.
When JFK's brother-in law Sargent Shriver accepted LBJ's challenge and took on the 'War on Poverty' the first thing he discovered was rather startling and disturbing. Half of the Americans living in poverty were children. Another large segment were elderly and another segment were mentally and/or physically disabled. So a HUGE segment of the poor fit the TRUE definition of a dependent. So there is an obligation as a civil society to make sure those real dependents are not trampled on or extinguished.
To address some of the players in your fairy tale, voila! We have an unabashed flaming liberal...Sargent Shriver. But I hate to disappoint you. Sargent Shriver hated welfare and had no intention of creating a handout program. He didn't believe in handouts, he believed in community action. The 'War on Poverty' was called the Office of Economic Opportunity.
The core principles were opportunity, responsibility, community and empowerment. The program's aims were maximum feasible participation. One of the concepts of empowerment was poor people had a right to one-third of the seats on every local poverty program board. It was a community based program that focused on education as the keys to the city. Programs such as VISTA, Job Corps, Community Action Program, and Head Start were created to increase opportunity for the poor so they could pull themselves out of poverty with a hand UP, not a hand out. Even when Johnson effectively pulled the plug on the War on Poverty to fund the war in Vietnam, Shriver fought on and won. During the Shriver years more Americans got out of poverty than during any similar time in our history. (The Clinton years - employing the same philosophy - were the second best.)
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