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Just to be clear, looks like he's using "Food Stamps" and other recipents as "welfare". Some of those persons do work. E.g. the oft quoted 40% of Wal-Mart staff number.
http://www.statisticbrain.com/welfare-statistics/
Socialism for 88 million. Plutocracy for the select few. The rest of us? not represented much. :-(
Its happened before. Read one of the tomes on the Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire.
The US quit getting science degrees and quit manufacturing starting in the late 1980s. My EE dept chairman shared with me the challenges in the Engineering department. He was not happy.
When I was in my 20s, many of my cohorts jobs were related to manufacturing or a more technical alighned job.
Now all we can see is paper pushers in the Government, and about 70% of the private sector are pushing paper.
Is anyone paying attention?
Correction, Outsourcing started in mass in the 1970s, and is aligned with the rise of the foreign auto industry.
Comparing people who work for the government with those who don't work and mooch off the system is thoroughly intellectually dishonest and betrays a fundamentalist capitalist approach to tax/fiscal matters.
zzyzzx
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2012 Nov 29, 2:43am
Correction, Outsourcing started in mass in the 1970s, and is aligned with the rise of the foreign auto industry.
If I were dictator anyone who owns a car whose final assembly point is not in the US or Canada would not be eligible food stamps, welfare, unemployment payments, obamaphones, section 8 housing, and I would go back 10 years on auto records on this as well.
JohnLaw
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2012 Nov 29, 3:41am
Some of those persons do work. E.g. the oft quoted 40% of Wal-Mart staff number.
The old Walmart argument is stale. It is a generalization to victimize Wal-Mart associates. Many work there to supplement other household income or are actually making a career of it and see working on the floor as a stepping stone into management or in some other area of their lives (ie night school, first job out of school, etc...). Wal-Mart is an excellent company whose supply chain management system is a wonder to behold.
Wal-Mart moves the product that Americans demand, in the most efficient and cost effective manner possible and pass the savings on to their customers. Blaming our trade or food stamp policies on a retailer is like blaming drunk driver deaths on liquor store owners. There is nothing wrong with Wal-Mart's business model. What they sell is merely a reflection of the products demanded by the public that are sold by most other stores anyway, only at lower prices.
Has nothing to do with Obama, neither with American workers.
It's Banladesh workers who produce stuff for you being paid 21 cents/hour or $1200 for human life.
All the rest is just a redistribution of goods, services and wealth made thru printed money.
We got a consumption bubble at the end of Clinton's. Since than every President and every FED char did everything to reinflate the bubble.
Absolutely the worst one was GWB.
Obama only follows his path.
JohnLaw
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2012 Nov 29, 3:55am
Comparing people who work for the government with those who don't work and mooch off the system is thoroughly intellectually dishonest and betrays a fundamentalist capitalist approach to tax/fiscal matters.
Either (a) you never worked for the government so don't know what its like or (b) you always worked for the government and don't know any better.
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http://michaelgraham.com/archives/in-obama-rsquo-s-america-work-is-for-suckers/
............"Your tax hike is spent before it’s even collected. Congratulations...suckers."
Your Natural Truth for today:
For every 1.65 employed persons in the private sector, 1 person receives welfare assistance
For every 1.25 employed persons in the private sector, 1 person receives welfare assistance or works for the government.
110 million privately employed workers; 88 million welfare recipients and government workers and rising rapidly.
How is this possible? How can four American workers be paying THREE people either through welfare or a government job?
It’s simple: Debt. Your taxes plus $1.1 trillion in borrowed money this year will write those checks. And as long as the spending stays this high—about 25 percent of every dollar generated by the American economy being spent by Washington—talk of tax hikes is meaningless.
Obama’s tax hikes will, according to the White House, generate maybe $80 billion a year. Obama’s deficit IN OCTOBER ALONE was $120 billion. And President Obama has no serious plans for real spending cuts.
What happens the day after you cave and give the Obama White House a tax hike? All of these government workers go back to work—soon (according to President Obama) to be joined by more government workers. All the folks on welfare stay on welfare. No plans for economic growth and job creation.
Your tax hike is spent before it’s even collected. Congratulations...suckers.
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