Entitled Hillarys path to the White House: entitlements/caption
The only time you even see the people is when you look down to see what it is youre stepping on." ― Bonnie Bedelia as Holly McClane in Die Hard 2" (1990)
As originally conceived in 1964 with LBJs Great Society" welfare programs were promoted as a temporary helping hand to give the downtrodden a leg up. Today this blatant economic redistribution (read: War on Poverty) has metastasized in a multi-generational government dependence scheme. In essence entitlement programs such as food stamps are de facto bribes directed mostly at minority groups loyal to Democrats. For progressives its a simple numbers game: garnering enough votes to keep themselves perpetually in high elective office.
Recall that the bottom 60 of the population pays only 2 of federal income taxes. Therefore this static underclass has virtually no economic skin the game as they are promisedin exchange for their ballotsmore and more free stuff" paid for by someone else. Vanquished Bolshevik Bernie Sanders fantasy of free" public college funded by the much demonized One Percenters comes to mind. In other words why work when one makes almost as much by not working?
Cynical liberals like Nancy Pelosi (and her fellow travelers like Hillary Clinton) love welfare. To elitist dolts like her food stamps and unemployment insurance payouts are laughably among best ways to stimulate the economy." This fascist millionaire of the political ruling class knows all too well: if you can influence an individuals stomach you can control their vote.
Despite an escalating $19.4 national debt the cost of welfare is now well over $1 trillion dollars per year. In fact the use of food stamps has become so common they are the go-to currency in many inner cities. At present 45 million Americans depend on taxpayers to put food on their tables. Since taking office Mr. Obama has added 5 million to that number and 10 million more to the Medicaid rolls.
How is all of this government largesse paid" for? By further raising economy-killing taxes as well as the debt ceiling (by borrowing at interest more money from Communist regimes like China). Hence the reasons for the widespread economic malaise of the Obama years are laid bare. A booming welfare state and outsourced jobs (due to high corporate taxes and draconian regulations) have resulted in almost eight years of a largely stagnant economyand 93 million able bodied Americans out of the workforce.
The cherry on the pie of this fiscal wasteland is the surprising revelation that illegal alien recipients are paid approximately $1000 dollars more in U.S. welfare benefits than American citizens. So despite this clear economic drain the unchecked criminality (such as the murder of innocents like American Kate Steinle) the violent drug trade and the ever present danger of radical Islamic terrorism Hillary Clinton supports an open border policy. Why? Beyond an unquenchable lust for power the amoral Clintons are all about self-interest via political calculations. To this end her hope of future amnesty for this underclass of foreign invaders (border jumping squatters and those illegally overstaying visas) forms yet another cultivated voting bloc for her ilk to steal elections by diluting the will of the American people.
Related to welfare as a political tool of manipulation weve come full circle back to the politician who started it all Lyndon B. Johnson. At the time this first modern progressive president said privately Ill have those n*ggers voting Democrat for the next 200 years!" Like LBJ Hillary Clinton is a disdainful creature (read: Server-gate) who counts on the duped and the poor (whom she cares nothing for) to realize her own longstanding presidential ambitions.
David L. Hunter is an Associate Editor at Capitol Hill Outsider. Hes on Twitter and blogs at davidlhunter.blogspot.com. He is published in The Washington Post The Washington Times FrontPage Mag and extensively in Patriot Post Canada Free Press and American Thinker.