From Larry Kudlow:
Question: can you think of any political ploy lower than intentionally fostering welfare dependency-- with the personal and family destruction it brings-- in order to buy votes?
I can think of a few that are lower (race-baiting, voter suppression of soldiers serving in combat), but they're also Democrat tactics.
Is Obama Buying the Election With His Welfare Explosion?
With the unprecedented budget explosion of means-tested, welfare-related entitlements, does Team Obama think it can buy the election?Remember Harry Hopkins, Franklin Roosevelt’s close aid? It was Hopkins who argued tax and tax, spend and spend, elect and elect. Sound familiar? And if I’m not mistaken, the high-tax, anti-rich, big-spending, redistributionist FDR is one of President Barack Obama’s idols.
It’s a cynical question. But I wouldn’t put it past that cynical bunch...
The spending explosion for means-tested welfare programs is outpacing spending on Social Security and Medicare, which are themselves veering toward bankruptcy.
I may be too cynical about Obama trying to buy the election with this entitlement explosion. Perhaps. But Obama wants to raise taxes in order to spend more on government unions and entitlement programs. It is redistribution, but it could be vote-buying, too.
Question: can you think of any political ploy lower than intentionally fostering welfare dependency-- with the personal and family destruction it brings-- in order to buy votes?
I can think of a few that are lower (race-baiting, voter suppression of soldiers serving in combat), but they're also Democrat tactics.
It is not possible to be "too cynical" about this crowd. They want an all-powerful central government controlled by a single party. They will settle for nothing less.
ReplyDeleteYou're exactly right. Mussolini gave the Left its desiderata:
Delete“Everything in the State, nothing outside the State, nothing against the State”
The GOP is in on it too, in case you haven't noticed.
DeleteVery true, but to a lesser extent.
DeleteAnd within the GOP there are people who fight it.
Not so in the Democrat party.
It's like comparing the police to the mafia. There are bad guys in both, but there is a real difference.
The GOP is in on it too, in case you haven't noticed.
ReplyDeleteThe Republican party can do no wrong - didn't you notice? In a week when there have been half a dozen stories about Republican voter fraud, Egnor says nothing.
Egnor is the world's biggest hypocrite.
Partisans are hypocrites by nature. I see the exact same blindness in Democrats. For example, ask yourself what happened to the anti-war movement when Obama took office. For some reason, Democrats don't notice when their guys start wars, abolish habeas corpus, deport record numbers of immigrants, and give away billions to bankers. By the same token, Republicans don't notice (or regard it as forgivable) when their guys expand government powers (party of small government my eye) and drastically increase the national debt.
DeleteWhen I ask partisans about this, they say that it's forgivable because their guys are not quite as bad and hadn't I better shut up about it in case the other party wins? And year after year, campaign promises are consistently worth about as much as the hot air they're blown in on, and we get the same policies, regardless of which guy sits in the Oval Office. It's almost as if both major parties were owned by the same powerful interests and only put on this circus for us every few years to give us the illusion of a choice, or something.