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September 23, 2009
Obama to Waste More Growing Welfare in a Year Than Bush Spent on Entire Iraq War
When liberals whine that the war to liberate Iraq cost too much, they make an argument that would be reasonable — but only if someone else were making it. We now know that their Teleprompter Messiah will flush more money down welfare in the next year than Bush spent on the entire war.
During the entire administration of George W. Bush, the Iraq war cost a total of $622 billion, according to the Congressional Research Service.
President Obama's welfare spending will reach $888 billion in a single fiscal year — 2010 — more than the Bush administration spent on war in Iraq from the first "shock and awe" attack in 2003 until Bush left office in January.
Obama's spending proposals call for the largest increases in welfare benefits in U.S. history, according to a report by the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank. This will lead to a spending total of $10.3 trillion over the next decade on various welfare programs. These include cash payments, food, housing, Medicaid and various social services for low-income Americans and those at 200 percent of the poverty level, or $44,000 for a family of four. Among that total, $7.5 trillion will be federal money and $2.8 trillion will be federally mandated state expenditures.
Welfare money is worse than wasted, because it doesn't just disappear: it buys poverty. Other than sinking us so deeply into debt we will probably never dig our way out, the only thing accomplished by Comrade Obama's pork-laden "Stimulus" bill was that it repealed welfare reform, which had been amazingly successful at getting people out of poverty.
If the government wants less of something — say, entrepreneurship — it taxes it. Where it wants more, it subsidizes. Our rulers subsidize poverty for the same reason they allow millions of Third World peasants to flood the country. To the government, more poverty means more power. This explains Democrat economic policy in a nutshell.
Hat tip: The Blogprof.
Posted by Van Helsing at September 23, 2009 10:06 AM
Comments
Cloward-Piven Strategy here we come.
Posted by: J at September 23, 2009 10:23 AM
Are we not supposed to notice that while we the people recieved literally nothing (except more insanity from the middle east and a giant bill, of course) for W's war, Obama's plan to spend money to help people does, in fact, provide a tangible benefit for the $s spent?
Apples and oranges? Nope... apples and a water buffalo (in space).
Posted by: PointlessComparisons...Why? at September 23, 2009 10:54 AM
Operation: Can You Hear Us Now?
Coming to YOUR left-wing media outlet October 17th, 2009
http://www.operationcanyouhearusnow.com/
Posted by: Bill at September 23, 2009 11:01 AM
If the "tangible benefit" is perpetuating wealth envy, then sure.
Posted by: I'm A Lasagna Hog at September 23, 2009 11:04 AM
"tangible benefit" = handing out money to losers?
Posted by: weewilly at September 23, 2009 11:17 AM
Another peek into the leftist mind:
Liberating 30,000,000 people from a tyrant, transforming a blood enemy into a nominal ally --- not a tangible benefit.
Spending billions to perpetuate a culture of poverty - tangible benefit.
Posted by: V the K at September 23, 2009 11:23 AM
@Pointless:
No, what the Reichschancellor's plan does is to transfer extorted funds from working people to parasites. Said parasites in turn act as stormtroopers for the racist regime. See: ACORN, et al. There are no "benefits" to be seen for any normal person, and to pretend otherwise is insanity. Get it now?
Posted by: The End at September 23, 2009 11:24 AM
Face it billy bob thems there congressional and senatorial hawgs have been set lose in the nations capital no bank account is safe
Posted by: SPURWING PLOVER at September 23, 2009 11:38 AM
Apples and oranges? Nope... apples and a water buffalo (in space).
Posted by: PointlessComparisons...Why? at September 23, 2009 10:54 AM
Pointless has his/hers/its head so far up their ass that he/she/it knows what that water buffalo had for breakfast.
Posted by: funkendunkel at September 23, 2009 11:49 AM
And one more thing PointlessComparisons...Why?, shut up. You're an idiot.
Posted by: funkendunkel at September 23, 2009 11:51 AM
And this will keep the parasite scum out of the productive peoples neighborhood?
Posted by: Stephana at September 23, 2009 12:03 PM
TO OUR COUNTRY LEADERS, CHIEF, EVERY WORKER &
ENTIRE WORLD, WE ARE ALL IN THIS WORLD TOG. UNDER ONLY ONE GOD AND SHD. ALL UNIVERSALLY
WORK FOR THE COMMON GOOD BY PROMOTING PEACE, LOVE,
KINDNESS, SHARING, PLANTING SEEDS OF GREATNESS
INSTEAD OF DOUBT AND GLOOM. OUR U.S.A. HAS BEEN
EVERY NATIONS FRIEND-NOW WE NOW FOREVER NEED ALL
NATIONS WORKING WITH DIVINE CO-OP ANN E. DELMORE
Posted by: Ann Elaine Delmore at September 23, 2009 12:36 PM
Ann you're supposed to call the pharmacy when your meds run out. Your welcome.
Posted by: Farmer Ted at September 23, 2009 12:41 PM
Ann the Loon,
In a nutshell, over my dead body. Ths fight's just getting underway.
Posted by: Gunny G at September 23, 2009 3:13 PM
I guess the lady in this video was correct in the beggining. I hope she can forgive Obama for the scare.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9SPdh4Nzy4
Posted by: Dan at September 23, 2009 3:35 PM
I recall how Ted Kennedy claimed that $1.4 Billion to build a border fence was too expensive. Meanwhile, pouring $16 Billion into the "Big Dig."
Posted by: V the K at September 23, 2009 3:42 PM
'i' before 'e' except after 'c'.
another PointlessComparison...
Posted by: Anonymous at September 23, 2009 5:33 PM
"Welfare money... buys poverty."
And it buys democrat votes by keeping people desperate and dependent. There's your tangible benefit.
Posted by: lvb-rocks at September 23, 2009 8:12 PM
Are we not supposed to notice that while we the people recieved literally nothing (except more insanity from the middle east and a giant bill, of course) for W's war
...except seven years without a single attack on American soil.
Obama's plan to spend money to help people does, in fact, provide a tangible benefit for the $s spent?
And what benefit would that be, exactly? Besides more Democrats added to the voter rolls?
Apples and oranges? Nope... apples and a water buffalo (in space).
No, apples and apples, numnuts. Funny how when the president wants to spend money on a Constitutionally-authorized priority (national defense) it's "wasted," but when we're subsidizing dependency, it's "money well spent." It's also funny how you and your kind aren't interested in digging into your own pockets to help the downtrodden, just other people's.
Good grief, I can't stand the hypocrisy and worn-out cliches from you people.
Posted by: PointlessComparisons...Why? at September 23, 2009 10:54 AM
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