or How Will Welfare Recipients Spend Benefits If There Is No Country?
Obama’s Attitude/Opinion
Sooooooooooooooooooooo, Obama says budget cuts should favor Food Stamps at the expense of Defense. From Rebecca Kaplan at National Journal we get Obama’s statement: “I think what’s absolutely true is that core commitments that we make to the most vulnerable have to be maintained,” Obama said. “A lot of the spending cuts that we’re making should be around areas like defense spending as opposed to food stamps.” In an interview with NPR, Obama cast himself as the defender of the poor and middle class in the debt-reduction debate by calling on Congress to close tax loopholes for Big Oil and the owners of corporate jets.
Obama proposed in an April, 2011, letter that lawmakers should cut tax breaks to oil and natural gas companies to keep the economy moving. But from Erica Lovley at Politico we learn that Obama and members of Congress may have to answer for the millions of dollars in campaign contributions they’ve taken from the oil and gas giant over the years. BP and its employees have given more than $3.5 million to federal candidates over the past 20 years, with the largest chunk of their money going to Obama.
From Richard Rubin and Andrew Zajac at Bloomberg we get this fact: Obama’s proposal to end a tax break for corporate jet owners would achieve less than one-tenth of 1 percent of his target for reducing the federal deficit. “It’s only fair to ask an oil company or a corporate jet owner that has done so well to give up that tax break that no other business enjoys,” Obama said. “I don’t think that’s real radical. I think the majority of Americans agree with that.”
These comments from a guy that gets chauffered around in a BIG limousine and flies repeatedly in what has to be the ultimate corporate jet.
From Bryan Preston at Pajamas Media, we get a tweet from Obama when he was at the Twitter townhall event: “We will have to make tough decisions about Defense spending, or even on programs that I like.” So are we to conclude that Obama’s priority is to buy as many votes as he can with your money, and spending to defend the country doesn’t buy the votes he’s looking for.
Just For The Record: Growth of Food Stamp Program 2001-2010
From LeftandRightNews we learn that in November, 2010, there were 43.6 million individuals receiving food stamps. In other words, one in seven Americans currently receive food stamps. November, 2010, marks the 33rd consecutive month the amount of participants in the food stamp program have increased. Ever since 2001, the cost of the program, as well as the number of participants, have grown every year. As this trend continues into fiscal year 2011, food stamp expenditures are on pace to hit at least $70 billion for yet another record setting year.
More Just For The Record: Defense Spending Versus Entitlement Spending
From The Heritage Foundation, we learn that, as a percentage of GDP, spending on national defense has declined significantly from 1965 through 2010, while spending on the three major entitlements – Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid – has more than tripled. Now I know that there is a difference between food stamps and entitlements. But do welfare recipients feel that they are entitled to food stamps?
More Just For The Record
From The Wharton School of Business at The University of Pennsylvania we learn that: “Aerospace Industries Association (AIA) president Marion Blakey warned House Speaker John Boehner in a letter that deep cuts to the Pentagon’s budget would exacerbate the country’s already troubled economy.” She continues, “Deeply cutting defense during these tough economic times could make our nation’s fiscal and broader economic situation even worse.” It also points out that “major cuts to defense would create further layoffs, and great uncertainty for them and their families, and undercut economic gains.”
But that’s just my opinion.
Puts me in mind of that old Broadway musical about baseball…”Damn Yankees.”
Instead of “Shoeless Joe from Hannibal, MO” ,
it’s:
“Clueless “O” from Chi-ca-go.”
Was there ever a more cynical, more venal, more corrupt pResident, even including those that have been impeached?
Cut White House spending before you cut defense. We can live without all the fancy parties, travel on Air Force One, ill-fitting clothes on the First Lady, etc.
Not “Let them eat cake” but “Let them eat MREs!”
This afternoon I stopped by the grocers to pick up a few items for dinner; three bell peppers ($3.75), a pound of hamburger $3.97, four ears of unshucked corn ($1.00). So for less than ten buck, I will have a great dinner. The woman in front of me (overweight) had two large T-bones @ $6.95/lb, four ears of pre-shucked corn at a dollar a pop, ice cream, a premixed salad in a bag and a chocolate cake. She pulled out a LoneStar card and paid for her groceries. I’m eating hamburger and she’s eating T-bones.
Obama’ s plan is pure Cloward and Piven, and if he can get enought Americans living on the dole, the Democrats will never again be defeated. Of course, then the job creators who earn good money will move overseas and take their money with them and we will wind up like Greece. All those “fat cats” that make over $200K a year will tell this country “adios, it’s been good to know ya” and go somewhere else to earn a living and pay taxes.
Keynes doesn’t work, yet there is not one Democrat on the Hill that you could convince them of that.
@Helene:
Cut the White House spending, you say?
“White House: Budget cuts to president’s office hurt debt efforts
Proposed House cuts to the Executive Office of the President’s (EOP) budget will hurt administration efforts the cut the deficit, the White House argues.
The Obama administration made the argument in comments on H.R. 2434, the 2012 Financial Services and General Goverment appropriations Act. That bill could be on the House floor as early as next week, and would decrease funding for the EOP from $705 million to $640 million.”
You got that; if we cut the President’s budget it will hurt the deficit. Only a Marxist could come up with that rationale. But what about all that “shared sacrifice” Obama is always blathering about? I guess his mommie never taught him to share since he is unwilling to do without a few tony dinners for special friends, $600 bottle of wine, Michelle’s shopping trips on AF1.
The sad part about all this is that there are people stupid enough to believe that crap.
@retire05:
I had not caught that little point, retire05.
Here is one of many links to it.
http://thehill.com/blogs/floor-action/house/171947-white-house-cutting-white-house-budget-hurts-administration-efforts-to-reduce-the-deficit
Unbelievable!
After he has taken the rich man’s money, decimated the earnings of the average Joe, who’s he going to rob then? Who will support his welfare zombies? Honestly, can you imagine a life doing nothing! I’ve seen them spend their little gray cards, they purchase chips, pop, candy, etc. I watched a lady one day at the dollar store and ALL she put on the counter was junk!
FLOTUS is so concerned about the waistlines she should get a gander at what these people buy. Nah, she knows, she can’t be that stupid. On the other hand.
From LeftandRightNews we learn that in November, 2010, there were 43.6 million individuals receiving food stamps. In other words, one in seven Americans currently receive food stamps. November, 2010, marks the 33rd consecutive month the amount of participants in the food stamp program have increased. Ever since 2001, the cost of the program, as well as the number of participants, have grown every year.
This summer I have been working as a cashier in an upscale grocery store, located in an affluent SoCal community. And I have seen several users of “food stamps” (they’re actually plastic EBT cards that look just like credit cards) buy shopping carts full of expensive, organic food items. Not ordinary groceries, no, the significantly more expensive exotic produce and “natural” grocery products. Every single time, without exception, the welfare shopper has been a well dressed woman wearing jewelry that is clearly expensive as well.
One such woman got very angry with me when her EBT card was declined by the card reader, stating “I shopped earlier today at Trader Joe’s, and my card went through for $150 just fine!”
It is very, very hard at such times to smile and act neutrally pleasant, when I’m thinking, “Those are my hard earned tax dollars you’re spending on products I myself can’t afford.”
What a damned corrupt system. No wonder Obama’s desperate to keep it unchanged.
Here is my thoughts like it, love it or leave it….
If you are a renter or lease as far as I am concerned you have no right to vote on property tax issues, why? You are able to raise taxes on those that pay for the public “Fool” system that your bunch of useless brats to go to and they refuse to learn anything because you’re too lazy to discipline them and you are probably partying with them with the very money that you receive with my tax dollars.
If you are receiving welfare and it is obvious that you can work; you should lose your right to vote, why? You are far as I am concerned is a ward of the state, and are able to vote for the very politician that can bribe you with my tax money and keep you there. This right shall be lost for a term of the general election plus one day the following year. This shall include all dependants and people living and co-habituating with you because it is the taxpayer’s money that is keeping you alive and them there with you.
There maybe exceptions to the rule such as medically exempt handicap upon proven of their disability but other than that you don’t vote. Yes I know people will say but voters rent goes up but they can give a months notice and the landlord has to find a renter in 30 days but a home owner to move they could be months to years before that house is sold.
Don’t even pull off the where is your compassion with me, I am tapped out and tired of it.
I know a guy who is a trained butcher. He has been on SSDI for the last 10 years due to a back injury. What is really criminal about this is that this same guy is a “heeler” and ropes every weekend. Now, for those of you who don’t know what a “heeler” is, it is the team roper who ropes the calf’s heels while his partner ropes the horns. It required being on a horse and training 4-5 times a week. Anyone with a serious back condition cannot sit a horse for that long a period or stand the quick starts and hard stops of a roping horse.
Last year he got over $100K from a family oil lease. So before the contract was signed, he signed over the mineral rights to his wife so it would not affect his SSDI. Yesterday, I learned he was working as a butcher again, but only part time so it would not affect his SSDI. In other words, he is making a pay check from both private industry AND the taxpayer who is giving him almost $1,200/month.
Why is it that when you drive through public housing complexes, you see new cars and kids sitting outside with $100 boom boxes? Why is it that I see people on welfare buying booze, cigarettes and lottery tickets? Ever see a person pay for their groceries with food stamps while talking on a cell phone? Or loading their groceries into a vehicle that is new than yours?
And while we hear the POTUS say that he is willing to cut Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid, he doesn’t seem to be willing to clean up the welfare rolls from people who are fully capable of working but think they are “owed” from the rest of us who are not zero-liability taxpayers and who actually contribute to the system.
Welfare Reform and actual reductions in the Food Stamp rolls were forced on Bill Clinton by the Republicans, and they did actually work for a time…people got off of Welfare and learned that they could earn a real living…that’s all being washed away by the deliberate destruction of the economy and the fraudulent (let’s reach out and help more people , even if we have to break the rules in order to grow our budget, our department, and our jobs) bureaucrats.
See James O’Keefe’s Medicaid fraud sting: http://www.therightscoop.com/okeefe-unveils-4th-medicaid-sting-video/
Why is it that I can stand in a grocery line with my 99 cent per pound chicken thighs and watch the person ahead of me pay $9.99 a pound for steak using one of those magical EBT cards? Why is it that she knows exactly where to place the divider so that she can pay cash for the items that are not covered by the food stamp program. Why is it that that same person speaks to her 4 children, all under the age of 6 in Spanish? The corruption and fraud in the social welfare programs has to be astronomical. The people managing these programs are enablers and sometimes co-conspirators. Then again I’m just a bitter old man who worked all of my life to purchase the things I have.
I hate those women that are illegal and have like ten kids. They receive like $1,000 in food stamps. Some even say ” One more kid, more foodstamps.”
Michelle should lead us!
Food stamps should be used only for fresh fruits and vegetables, eggs, bread, milk and basic stables.
Hey Michelle, let’s see you get behind this!
Of course the marxists (who try to hide their true beliefs by wearing ‘democrat” as a cover) want to cut defense. The vast majority of us serving in the military cannot stand the leftists. Obama and his ilk want to continue buying the votes of the uneducated, the lazy, and those who subscribe to the class warfare jealousy with their worthless welfare spending. It never ceases to amaze me how the Constitutional duty for national defense takes a back a back seat to the deliberate misinterpretation of the preamble phrase “promote the general welfare”. The left is evil and wants to destroy our Constitutional Republic so they can establish their collectivist hegemony. They look forward to being the aparatachiks, lording over all us proletarian slaves. What’s sickening is how all these idiots demanding their “free” government handouts are too stupid to see their pending enslavement.
YES UNBELIEVABLE,
He doesn’t care for any AMERICANS WHICH ARE NON UNIONIZE,
HE CARE FOR THE VOTES HE WANT TO PROTECT; AND SPENDING CUT FOR THE
MILITARY IN TIME OF WAR IS THE MARK OF THE DEVIL. THEY ARE GETTING ENJURED AND KILLED,
IN THERE, FOR AMERICA’S FREEDOM, AND THE GOVERNMENT THREATS ARE DESPICABLE.
THEY SHOULD BE THE FIRST ONE TO BE CUT AND DRASTICLY,
IT wont hurt the debt ,and if they say that they are insane, they have sold their soul to his UNION’S FRIEND,
REMEMBER BIDEN SAID TO THE TEAMSTERS, IF YOU DON’T VOTE FOR US, YOU’RE ON YOUR OWN,
THEY SHOULD GIVE THE MONEY THEY GET FOR THE ELECTION TO THE REDUCE THE DEBT ON TOP OF THAT, CUT THE SALARY OF THEM SELF FIRST, THEY ARE THE RICH INCLUDED WHO SHOULD PAY HIGHLY, AND REDUCE AGENTCIES TO A EXEMPLARY STRICK MOST IMPORTANT NUMBER,
HOW CLEARER CAN IT BE, OBAMA YES YOU CAN
I MUST CORRECT, the comment above,
I meant the RICHS AMONG THE ELECTED DEMOCRATS WHICH HAVE ACQUIRED THEIR IMMENSE FORTUNE WHILE SERVING IN THE WHITE HOUSE, SHOULD BE PAYING INSTEAD OF GETTING PAID,
I WAS NOT INCLUDING THE RICH ONE IN AMERICAN ENTERPRISES TO BE TAX MORE,
BECAUSE THEY PROVIDE JOBS TO THE AMERICANS WHICH PRODUCES UNLIKE THE JOBS IN THE GOVERNMENT WHICH DON’T PRODUCE,BUT ARE COSTING THE AMERICAN THEIR TAX DOLLARS
SORRY IF MY PREVIOUS COMMENT WAS CONFUSING ON THIS ISSUE.
RICH WHEELER THANK’S FOR NOTING IT.
Gosh, I hope no one expected the Russians to carry on the work of keeping the Space Station going once we stopped with the shuttles.
Russia announced Wednesday that the International Space Station [ISS]– a space base the world’s scientists and billions of U.S. tax dollars helped build and maintain some 200 miles above the surface of the Earth — will be de-orbited and allowed to sink into the Pacific Ocean by 2020, just like its Russian predecessor, Mir.
When NASA quit, the plan had been to keep that space station going through 2030!
Congress and the White House fully expected ISS to be up and viable through at least 2020.
I guess they were wrong.
Meanwhile China claims it will have an orbiting manned space station by 2020.