I want to tackle a few issues at once.
Romney’s 47% Comment:
The left seems to be having a spazfit over Romney’s comment about 47% of the people in the US having a victim mentality. I don’t know whether or not it will really hurt him. Among conservative voters it will not, and among die hard Republican voters it will not. In spite of all the hype, there is really nothing at all contraversial about what he said.
“There are 47% of the people who will vote for the president no matter what. All right, there are 47% of the people who are with him, who are dependent upon government, who believe they are victims, who believe the government has a responsibility to care for them, who they believe that they are entitled to health care, to food, to housing, to you name it. That’s an entitlement. And the government will give it to them. And they will vote for the president no matter what.”–Romney said in the recording.
So basically all he did was call attention to the elephant in the room. The fact that entitlement spending and the amount of people on government aid is growing is a huge problem, and one which cannot be sustained over the long term. Eventually the economy has to bust completely, and there are going to be riots just like there were in jolly old England. Also, those people will never vote for Romney, they will vote for the man who is more likely to give them free stuff, which is Obama. But putting that aside, there is a large constituency for the Dems that can never be won by any Republican no matter what. The Republicans need to realize that and just put up real conservative candidates from now on, not more neo-cons.
Of course Obama’s response about how he is everyone’s president is asinine, and it is probably the biggest lie since the snake told Eve it was OK eat the forbidden fruit, or at least one of them. The fact is Obama represents and caters to his constituency. If he were my president then he would have less time to appear on irrelevant shows like “David Letterman” and “The View” and more time to meet with Netanyahu. He would also never have passed NDAA. He would also not continually suck up to Islam, and he would not call that child molesting bastard who started Islam a prophet. Those are just a few things. No, he’s the candidate for an entirely different group of people which I am not at all by any means a part of.
Welfare Mom:
Cindy Nerger, 28, who relies on food stamps to feed her family, said she was brought to tears after being embarrassed by a manager at a Kroger store in Warner Robbins, Ga.
“He said, ‘Excuse me for working for a living and not relying on food stamps like you,’” Nerger said the manager told her.
The man’s comment came after Nerger and two other store employees disagreed over whether her total purchase was eligible for food stamps – the employees had insisted that roughly $10 of her bill was not covered. She said the manager ultimately told the employees to “just give it to her.”
After Nerger then stressed that she had been right all along, the man made his “working for a living” remark, she said.
It’s no coincidence that an article would come out about someone on government aid after Romney’s comment, and in light of the smear campaign the liberal media is running against him for free. The article is about a 28 year old woman who is married and who has a daughter, but is also on foodstamps. The purpose of the article is to make people pity people those who live off the government and to make Romney look as though he is mean or spiteful, because he wants to cut funding to people like this, supposedly.
To that end, it’s worth noting that they picked a white female who suffers from a medical condition, and who is actually married. They did not want to pick a stereotypical welfare-mom or someone who looks like they could be an immigrant.
Nerger said the reason she and her family – she is married with a daughter – must rely on food stamps is because her husband’s carpentry business isn’t profitable enough to support the family.
Meanwhile, Nerger must devote 12 hours every night to a dialysis treatment to combat her kidney disease, which she’s struggled with since the age of 11. She’s been on a kidney transplant list for five years and hopes that someday, after a successful transplant, she can become a working member of society. She would like to attend college to major in child psychology.
If they picked a healthy woman who was unmarried and knocked up then there would be a good deal less sympathy. The sad thing is that many unthoughtful people will be taken in by this, and an article like this will actually influence the outcome of the election, even if only by a small degree. But let us be analytical.
Here is the woman with her child:
Even though the picture is carefully angled (a tactic which fat women often use when they post pictures online), and no doubt carefully chosen, it is still easy to tell that this woman is considerably overweight, probably obese, which is consistent with what I have seen of women on foodstamps and WIC (more on that shortly). The fact is that whether her need is serious or not, she has managed to get very fat, which indicated excess. If she’s really hard up for money she should eat smaller portions and share with her daughter.
Second, knowing that they were not doing well financially she should never have had a child. Wait until you can afford a kid then have one. If you can’t feed them don’t breed them. Seriously. If we are going to have welfare then the government should make abstinance or sterilization a pre-requisite for receiving aid. Otherwise a large dependent class is bred which just drains the productive sectors of society. Part of the reason the number of people living off the tit has grown so much is because the government pays them to breed. If you incentivise a behavior you will get more of it.
My third point about this couple, is that if her husband’s business is not taking off, then it’s time to do something else. The manager at the grocery store is managing to get by, maybe this guy should go and do that. It’s negligent of this man to keep waiting for this thing to take off IF he cannot afford to feed his family.
The medical condition she has is unfortunate, but this woman is still fat, she still had a child, and her husband is still not doing his job to support them.
Of course judging by the picture of this person it is hard for me to believe that that is the case. In fact, getting back to what I said earlier, obecity is quite common among those who rely on foodstamps and WIC. I know this from first hand experience because I spent a summer working at a grocery store as a cashier back when I was in my teens, and yes, I know it was only one summer, but so many of these people came in. I averaged at about three or four a day. Most of them were fat, some of them were grossly obese. What they would do is have a handful of bare essential items which they would use their foodstamps or WIC to buy, because only certain items can be bought with those programs, then there would be a basket stuffed full of food that they would by with their own money. So if the were responsible they would buy the small handful of essential items with their own money in place of some of that other junk, and get off the government tit. I saw only one woman on WIC who was actually thin, and I saw only a handful of food stamp recipients who were, and they were all in the same family. The family was from some country in Eastern Europe, or maybe Russia, but as foreigners and immigrants they should not even be elligible for foodstamps or any kind of government assistance.
So the issue is not whether Romney is mean, or how bad the situations of government recipients might be, but the issue at hand is deciding what the role of government is, and whether the government is a government or a charity. The left insists that poverty can be solved by throwing more money at it, but in the meantime we just end up with more poverty, which goes back to my comment about incentivising behaviors. If you incentivise a particular behavior or lifestyle then you will get more of it. To me, all the left wing talk about “helping the poor” rings hollow, because the traditional means for supporting the down and out are religious organizations and family, which are two institutions the left is continually attacking and trying to undermine.
If someone was struggling in the 1800′s, or the early 1900′s they could count on their families for help. Women could count on their husbands, and young women were not usually having children outside of wedlock, they were having children with their husbands and staying with them. Widows could also count on their families for help, because usually they had children, or if they were young enough they could remarry and get help from their parents in the meantime. If none of those factors applied, the widows could still get help from their church. This whole concept of government feeding people is relatively new. Traditionally when it came to food the government usually took it away from people, or let them keep it at most, but never have we had a situation prior to the 1900′s where a government tried to be everyone’s sugar momma.
I am firmly convinced that the left wing leadership, and some of the left wing followers as well, want to create a permanent underclass so that they can have a reliable voter-base that will come out for them every election.