The stock market is tanking and businesses are laying off even more workers.
The Democrat plan is working just fine.
Democrats' constituencies are two: government-connected elites and government-connected poor. That was the genius of the New Deal and the Great Society. Dems created more of their constituencies, by expanding government power (the New Deal) and by markedly increasing government dependence and in fact destroying the civic and family structures that gave families independence from the government (the Great Society).
The poor have been tucked in the Democrat pocket. Now it's time for the middle class.
How to do it? Answer- make the middle class poor, or at least make the middle class depend on Big Government if they wish not to be poor.
The Democrats' worst nightmare is a free industrious society largely independent of government largesse. The Democrats' worst nightmare is prosperity, which is why they have been working feverishly to prevent it.
The looming economic collapse is a feature, not a bug, in the emerging Democrat governance.
The Democrat plan is working just fine.
Democrats' constituencies are two: government-connected elites and government-connected poor. That was the genius of the New Deal and the Great Society. Dems created more of their constituencies, by expanding government power (the New Deal) and by markedly increasing government dependence and in fact destroying the civic and family structures that gave families independence from the government (the Great Society).
The poor have been tucked in the Democrat pocket. Now it's time for the middle class.
How to do it? Answer- make the middle class poor, or at least make the middle class depend on Big Government if they wish not to be poor.
The Democrats' worst nightmare is a free industrious society largely independent of government largesse. The Democrats' worst nightmare is prosperity, which is why they have been working feverishly to prevent it.
The looming economic collapse is a feature, not a bug, in the emerging Democrat governance.
"The looming economic collapse is a feature, not a bug, in the emerging Democrat governance."
ReplyDeleteIt is. And were it not that me and mine will suffer right along with the fools (*) who willfully, deliberately, obstinately voted for national suicide by means of “legally” looting their fellow citizens, I’d be cheering as they get what they asked for, good and hard.
I expect that things will get very bad. And in the meantime, I fully expect them to blame us, we who have been warning against this for decades, for the inevitable result. If they can manage it, I fully expect them to persecute us.
(*) that is a moral judgment, not pointless some accusation of stupidity.
This is not rocket science. From the Democratic perspective, people getting on welfare is good news. People getting off welfare is bad news. Get on welfare and stay there!
ReplyDeleteIt's not good for society, it isn't even really good for the constituents picking up the checks, but it is good for the electoral prospects of the Democratic Party. Judging by last week's election results, it's working like gangbusters.
"Our common goal is to increase participation in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program,” the United States Department of Agriculture explains on its “Outreach Toolkits” page. “Our purpose is to ensure that those going through difficult times can feed their families healthy, nutritious food. By working as a team, we can accomplish these goals.”
[Comment: My observations tell me that healthy, nutritious food is nowhere on welfare recipients' shopping lists. Soda, meat, and lots of fried carbohydrates rank as favorites, hence the obesity epidemic among the welfare class.]
"The USDA has adopted a range of strategies and programs designed to bring more people to SNAP, including taking on “pride.” A 2011 Hunger Champions Award document reveals that local assistance offices have been rewarded for “counteracting” pride and pushing more people to sign up for benefits."
[Comment: Yes, let's give awards for getting people on welfare. Pride is apparently the problem. When we're a nation full of people without a shred of pride, then they'll be satisfied that they did their job. Is there any doubt that they want the welfare rolls to swell?]
Read more: http://cowboybyte.com/9625/obama-admin-wants-americans-to-drop-their-pride-and-go-on-food-stamps/#ixzz2BqPmJgMw
Joey
The funny thing is that Egnor himself is a welfare queen: his salary is paid by the citizens of New York.
ReplyDeleteNot only that, working for a public institution largely protects his from the consequences of spewing vitriol on the internet.
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Protects me from what, KW?
DeleteProtects you from being fired for being an embarrassment.
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"[O]nce a state extends the [voting] franchise to every warm body, be he producer or parasite, that day marks the beginning of the end of the state. For when the plebs discover that they can vote themselves bread and circuses without limit and that the productive members of the body politic cannot stop them, they will do so, until the state bleeds to death, or in its weakened condition the state succumbs to an invader--the barbarians enter Rome."
ReplyDeleteRobert Heinlein (in To Sail Beyond the Sunset)
Heinlein makes a very good argument for denying Egnor the right to vote. Glad to see you're supporting that, Boggs, old boy.
ReplyDeleteYes, Mregnor, the Democratic party wants you to be poor, so that you'll vote for them. That doesn't sound crazy at all.
ReplyDeleteYou haven't' offered an argument that would refute my view.
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The former Confederate states (except Texas) get back more from the federal government than they put in, and their per capita income tends to put them nearer (or at) the bottom of per-capita income chart. By your trainwreck of logic, they're solidly Democratic.
DeleteFederal spending on the states is complex, and involves support for military bases, highway construction, etc that are no "dependency" issues.
DeleteAre you arguing that Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, welfare, foodstamps, etc are not examples of government dependency hawked by Democrats, who benefit politically from buying the loyalty of beneficiaries of such programs?
There's nothing at all crazy about the idea that Democrats want us to be poor.
DeleteJoey
modusoperandi, put the merkin down and pay attention. Consider MS, on of those states which "should" be Democratic by Egnor's logic, but appear strongly Republican. How can this be?
DeleteWell, for those of us with more than two neurons to rub together, it's easy to solve that tangled conundrum. If you look at the county data, the counties that receive the most Federal funding did, in fact, vote for President Lackwit.
As BF Skinner taught us in the 1950's even pigeons and Norway rats have that much sense.
See how easy that was?
So you're denying that Democrats champion government programs that make people dependent in order to secure votes?
DeleteAnd how is your dependency on the taxpayers of New York state making you feel, Egnor?
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