America in need of therapy.
A very large proportion of the people who vote are engaged in rationalization on a massive scale.
Tagged: welfare
I do not hate Democrats.
My disagreements with Democrats are not personal. My problem with Democrats is that I so vigorously disagree with so much of what they believe.
Of the Reagans & the Obamas.
Sasha and Malia Obama have lived their lives with a mother and a father in the house who love them and who are active in raising them. For all of my disagreements with Barack Obama, this is a part of him that I like and respect.
On KFXK FOX51: Ben Franklin on wealth and poverty.
The amount of money expended by the federal government on anti-poverty programs since 1965 is almost exactly equal to the national debt, currently approaching $17 trillion.
The Great Society at 50.
Fifty years ago today, President Lyndon Johnson gave a speech at the University of Michigan in which he first proposed what he called the “Great Society.” So what of the Great Society on its 50th birthday? Sadly, there’s little to celebrate.
The 50 year war.
The poverty rate in America stands essentially unchanged from its level on this day 50 years ago. If nothing else, the War of Poverty has proved the words of the scripture in which Jesus said, “The poor you will always have with you.”
Feeding His flock.
Recently, in an apostolic statement Pope Francis said, in effect, that capitalism is OK with him on the condition that we feed the poor. I say, with all deference to the Holy Father, that we can feed the poor only on the condition that we have capitalism.
Boomers: ‘Sorry, but we spent all the money.’
America’s post-war wealth is now gone and in its place stands a mountain of debt that our kids will shoulder all the way to their graves.
Failure in real time.
Liberals believe that there is no societal ill that does not call for a massive dose of government – despite now four full generations of compelling evidence to the contrary.
Premium cable or groceries? Why not both?
The food stamp program has gone from an emergency program designed to meet exigent need into a program in which just about anyone can enroll at his or her individual option.
Government is not a family.
Since government has proved willing to substantially replace many of the things that mothers at one time counted on a man to provide, there is less incentive for women to weed out the men that won’t meet that responsibility.
Of farmers and fathers.
The virtues of the American farmer as extolled by Paul Harvey in a commercial for Dodge trucks are the self-same virtues we look for in fathers – and for which there is no substitute when no father is around.
The road to insolvency is paved with good intentions.
One of the biggest drivers of America’s massive spending and debt problem is our inability to weigh the good intentions of programs that spend billions of dollars against the actual results that those programs produce.
It’s not a policy election. It’s a philosophy election.
The three Republican front-runners are now each out with tax proposals. None of the three has yet touched many hearts nor quickened many pulses.
Cuban on taxes. Wrong, wrong, wrong!
Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban caused a stir earlier this week on his blog. He opined that paying taxes is, “the most patriotic thing you can do.”
Reality acceptance.
The human capacity for self-delusion is the only thing that explains why the left continues to cling to a tired and discredited belief system.
The markets know that the piper must be paid.
The piper has arrived in Europe, seeking to be paid for 60 years of social entitlement spending. Everyone knows that the piper’s next stop is the United States.
Entitlement is just a politician word for dependency.
The more you convince people to take goodies from the government rather than provide for themselves, the more votes you can count on come election day.
Insisting on independence.
The parental decision concerning kicking newly graduated college kids out of the house is a microcosm of our societal decision about dependency. Pushing a kid out in the world to make it on his or her own is almost always the best thing you can do for the kid.
Taking candy away.
Even a sweeping Republican victory on Tuesday will not be enough to address the problems America now faces.