Obama Wants to Corrupt Americans Through Fear and Dependency
Among Americans without a high-school diploma, just two out of five are working.
Obama sticks his finger in your eye and then fines you for squinting. After making Americans dependent on the government, Obama warns that the Republicans will take benefits away! The jobs machine that lifted America out of every recession in the past four decades was driven by start-ups and innovation. ObamaCare is the biggest jobs killer in American history: it forces massive costs onto employers just as they reach the expansion stage (with a $2,000 per worker fine for businesses with more than 50 employees that fail to offer the right kind of health insurance). The kind of start-ups that hire less-educated workers would have to pay about as much in health insurance as they do in base pay for new workers. That helps explain why less-educated, lower-earning workers simply can’t find employment. Obama has priced them out of the market.
The trouble is that too many Americans are dependent on government help. The most courageous Republican in the country is Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker, the man who took on the government unions — and he faces a recall election in June, with polls showing the voters split down the middle. Obama is hoping that Americans will circle the wagons around their existing entitlements — that they have been down so long that they have forgotten what it feels like to be in an economy driven by entrepreneurship.
There’s a one word answer to Obama: “Job-killer.” Republicans will have to stay carefully on message this year to counter Obama’s efforts to corrupt the electorate through fear and dependency.
“That helps explain why less-educated, lower-earning workers simply can’t find employment. Obama has priced them out of the market.”
The monster in the room is immigration. Obama has to bribe his constituents into passive decay because they cannot compete with illegal labor, or drones brought in from the third world who see severe exploitation as normal. Well, it’s the new normal now.
Europe was doing things right for a very long time, reducing the population to the number of jobs available. They have the opposite problem now, a struggle to turn the decline around! China might face the same thing in 30 years.
As onerous as it sounds, racism and “racism” sure did help the working class for a long time, before the 1965 immigration act let the flood gates open. Big business Republicans and multicultural Democrats have destroyed the backbone of the nation.
Even Ron Paul doesn’t have the courage to stop it. It’s too late.
“Europe was doing things right for a very long time, reducing the population to the number of jobs available”. Do you mean through WWI and WWII ? That’s maybe true (polemologist Gaston Bouthoul used to talk of war casualties as “émigration dans l’au-delà”) but your sentence remains audacious, to put it mildly.
Napoleon’s wars were a result of technology and economics. Major shifts in these create surplus peasants in the short run.
Spengler’s insistence on accurate data is only one of his many positive attributes.
Americans, not the brightest fireflies in the jar, are always going to be susceptible to Democrat propaganda simply because Democrats give them stuff. No Democrat politician is ever really out of a political race for that reason.
It is also the idea of such un-Constitutional spending (on individuals) that violates the ground of American federalism. In order to correct this gross error the Republican politician is going to have to convince the American voters that they must sacrifice: good luck with that.
Consequently, the apocalypse continues.
Those numbers demonstrate something I wrote awhile back about Social “Darwinism”.
If you actually take the assumption that such a thing exists, you have to do it in the context of how evolution works.
Evolution does not function based on what an individual creature wants, and definitely not on what some observer or director wants.
Darwinian evolution, of “survival of the fittest”, functions by ecological niches being filled by those best adapted to them. In a “social” version, social classes would thus be filled by those best adapted to them.
If you then create a niche of social benefits, you will not eliminate people dependent on them. You will instead exert a pressure to adapt to thriving on them. Those who can best solicit, secure, and live on social benefits will become specialized to do so.
You will place further pressure against being one of those who exerts survival energy to support that dependent social class, generally driving them to join the class in response to their own survival drives, or drive them to destroy that class to preserve their own survival chances.
Not only do the social programs create a dependent class, but they function to make class warfare a self-fulfilling prophecy!
It would also mean that destroying the dependent social class is not an immoral expression of social manipulation, but rather a moral expression, as it creates more pressure to rise in social class, and thus supports adaptation for people to be middle and upper class rather than lower or dependent class.
Of course that assumes Social “Darwinism” is actually valid, and not merely an ex post facto justification to support the original class warfare paradigm.
If people would prefer to be self-sufficient but are not allowed to be, and if the observer/supervisor “class” really requires people to be productive but merely on their terms, then the entire progression becomes not an evolutionary function but rather a control function of the social process.
Good thinking Sam, but please never leave out chaos theory. There is usually an unknown element that can change the entire game. In Murphy’s laws, something went wrong because it started out with a plan. Diversity invites randomness which can mutate angels and demons, or is it the other way around?
And that doesn’t include the massive wealth of pension plans.
From a study on wealth income inequality stats based on Germany data that applies to any modern Western Society.
http://www.lisproject.org/conference/papers/frick-grabka.pdf
Conclusion
“Entitlements from old-age pension schemes—statutory, occupational, and private—represent a considerable source of wealth. For data-related reasons, however, empirical analyses of wealth inequality in Germany have failed to take this important component adequately into account. ”
“This extended measure of wealth shows considerably (about 25 percent) less inequality than traditional analyses that refer only to financial and material assets (net worth). “
More importantly, either directly through taxation or indirectly through debt, $5 out of $5 that goes into the government’s pocket comes from the people. . . we should never forget that fact.
It’s easy to transform citizens into subjects: Just position yourself on the side of the laws of gravity, entropy, demoralization, dependency, despondency, and all available kinds of degenerative human atavisms, and you got it made! But if you try to turn subjects into citizens, you are up the creek, if it’s not too late already!
But how well does that work when so many of us own guns? Well more than half, based in extrapolating from survey data that as I recall currently says about half (we suspect the surveys since not everyone is going to tell a random person on the phone that they own guns).
Or as Jeff Cooper said in his highly recommended The Art of the Rifle, “Pick up a rifle and you change instantly from a subject to a citizen.”
Is this 20% figure counting government payrolls and contracts?
Government employees don’t pay taxes, they only file a return.
Contractors could probably claim a B2B multiplier effect, if one ignores the patronage.
Is the true dependent class approaching 2/3 of the economy?
The public-private system is the new norm.
We are Occupied by a hostile power.
“Government employees don’t pay taxes, they only file a return.”
Though I agree with the empirical nature of your statement, I can attest that, as a military member, I indeed DID pay taxes. Most of us thought it weird that since our money came from tax dollars, that we even had to pay them at all.
(The law of diminishing returns takes hold and how many times does a dollar get re-circulated through the system before it vanishes?}
I heard all kinds of arguments but none made much sense to me. ‘Course I still had to pay into social security, etc. Some poor guys if they were stationed in the state they claimed as residence, they paid state taxes as well…and some states even if they weren’t in their “home state” such as Connecticut, which simply takes “their cut” because they can.
However, I felt it much simpler to just give a G.I. a check…not have them have to eve file a return unless they have a side-business of their own and leave it at that. Simple, effective, efficient.
But that is not the government way.
“not have them have to eve file a return unless they have a side-business of their own and leave it at that.”
What a very good idea!
That would certainly clarify things.
Given our ruling class’ idolatry of equality, that’s unthinkable.
Well, yes – you did pay taxes. But in net terms, you didn’t, as you paid less taxes into the system than you took out in salary. Not that that’s a bad thing in your case, the country needs a military.
From a tax viewpoint you can divide up the electorate into two kinds of people in the United States: those who are net tax payers and those who are net tax consumers. Net tax consumers include those who are productive (military, cops, firemen, teachers – government employees in general) and those who are non-productive, people on some kind of support or another who receive more in services and grants than they pay in taxes. Net tax payers are people working in private industry of some kind or who have managed to amass enough money that they can support themselves without more money from the government than they pay it.
What has happened is that the government has expanded so much that at this point in many states – certainly in your average urban county – the tax consumers outnumber and outvote the tax payers. With the exception of the military (who are present in large numbers mostly in non-urban settings and are an anomaly anyway), a proposal to expand government programs attracts tax consumers because the non-productive ones receive direct benefits and the productive ones provide those benefits and thus get jobs. So they unite to support expansion of government programs and thus government power. But the people they outnumber actually PAY for this expansion.
Remember – what can’t continue forever won’t. Just ask the Greeks.
“One out of five dollars that flow into the pockets of Americans comes from a government check.”
And no one seems willing to attribute this to the fact that the American private sector doesn’t feel the need to produce things in America anymore. But please, let’s keep giving them massive tax breaks so that they can continue not hiring Americans. People still need jobs. And if all the private sector is going to offer is Mcjobs, then it makes sense that people will look for government work.
And no one seems willing to attribute this to the fact that the American private sector doesn’t feel the need to produce things in America anymore.
A business’ need is to make money. The lack of American production is not due to a lack of need to produce in America, it’s due to a need to produce outside America – where there are no unions, fewer regulations and lower taxes.
But please, let’s keep giving them massive tax breaks so that they can continue not hiring Americans.
They’re not getting massive tax breaks. Corporate tax rates are higher in America than in any other country in the world.
President Obama met with Steve Jobs a few weeks before he died. He asked Steve why he didn’t produce in America. Steve told him (I paraphrase here) “I’ve got $50 billion siting overseas. If I invest that in production offshore I get the full benefit of that $50 billion. If I bring it to America you will take a third of it and I’ll have only $37 billion to invest. That money’s not coming back unless you don’t tax it when I bring it back into the country.”
People still need jobs. And if all the private sector is going to offer is Mcjobs,
The private sector offers McJobs in America because government policies will bankrupt them if they keep better jobs here.
then it makes sense that people will look for government work.
Which, again, are net consumers of tax money, since the people performing them get paid more than they in return pay back in taxes.
He’s the President of Handouts. Whether its unemployment, welfare, housing, cell phones, food stamps, food deserts, school lunches (Breakfast, lunch & dinner), or medicaid. The vote buying never ends; the demands only increase.
He’s President Downgrade. He’s spent so much money and the deficits are so large, that I don’t see any way out than to inflate the currency until its worthless. Then watch survival of the fitest.
He’s President of regulating us out of business. Its doesn’t matter if its farming, fishing, mining, drilling, power generation, pipelines, or manufacturing he’s regulating us out of business. What kind of man gives handouts to other countries to develop their energy resources (thru the IMF) and shuts down U.S. sources? What kind of man shuts down coal generated electricity so U.S. people will eventually have browouts, but then ship large quantities of coal to China? Hint, we’re stil inhabiting the same planet as China.
What kind of man gives large subsidies to inefficient energy sources (solar, wind, and biofuels) even though he knows these are failing enterprises? Then these companies have the audacity to give executives bonuses?
Really what kind of man literally spends his country into oblivion? Obviously one that doesn’t love the one he leads.
When the dollar merry go round stops, or more likely fizzles out as the paper and plastic reverts to its inherent value, the blood-letting will be fearsome. Foreign creditors against debtors, and the cheated against the cheaters. You won’t need a score card, just an angry heart. Sad, sad, sad, but until capitalism, this happened regularly. Check the history books. Captialism created real money and mitigated it. The return to fuedalism kills money as well as those left to fight over the dwindling supply. My bets are still on the US Military. Hoo-Rah! Their hearts are still right.
Per the previous piece David, I take back what I said about Michael “Faster Please” Ledeen being flippant about the prospect of the Muslim Brotherhood taking over a post-Assad Syria and stockpiling rockets along the Golan Heights. I’m sure you two being friends have discussed it at some time or another.
And per PattyMor’s comment above, perhaps the concentrations of heavy metals at high altitudes in the Sierra Nevada have to do with coal plant pollution from China (you know all those Chinese plants that burn dirtier coal without the scrubbers we can produce over here) and not with the Coast to Coast AM theory of chemtrails.
Yes, Obama is a job-killer. Yes, he’s working hard every day to increase fear and dependence on government handouts.
He’s also using our taxdollars to buy his re-election, expand government, and fund the Divided States of America vision he’s working so hard to create.
We, the taxpayers, are funding – however unwillingly – our own demise and that of our country.
Deport all the illegals and their anchor babies, imprison Eric Holder, and impeach and imprison Obama for not having qualifying to run for the 2008 presidency.
>>One out of five dollars that flow into the pockets of Americans comes from a government check
You say that like it’s a bad thing.
Abolish the wages system
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/ID17Ak01.html
13 years later and Serbia was still a crime, and an idiotic example of picking the wrong horse. Thank you David for writing the facts back in 2007. Partition with the Serb-majority parts going to Serbia is the only humane solution.
Plus there’s this beauty from MEMRI, which normally covers Islamic extremists and translates their comments from Arabic into English, now covering Saudi clerics denouncing Russia and calling for Western intervention. Funny how unholy the company Sen. McCain finds himself in these days, no? And the comment reads like a thinly disguised threat to Russia that if it keeps blocking Assad’s overthrow it could see more violence in the Caucuses. Which Saudi Arabia will have nothing to do with, of course.
Baloney. The figure shows total transfers as a percentage of GNP from 1959 to August 2008. Obama was elected into office in November 2008. But this figure shows how Bush+Cheney bankrupted this country. Look at the years 2000-2008 and weep. Look how transfers as a fraction of income shoots up! And how does Bush+Cheney disaster end? A financial meltdown and a great recession! That is the spike at 2008. Thanks Obama leadership both at home and abroad, America is safer and more prosperous. Thank you Obama.
“Look at the years 2000-2008 and weep.”
I see pretty much a flat line until the spike of 2008 and then the near vertical line since then, under Obama.
MSTR-baloney you! Obama came to clean up, so he says, and now he has only dug us deeper in. He lied more than any other president because he knew people believed what he said when he stated that he would create a more responsible government. He knew the people were ready for a person who do as he said he would do. Instead of being a different black president it turns out he is no different than his white counterparts. We voted for change, not more of the same…
Sydney Blumenthal “The Strange Death of Republican America: Chronicles of a Collapsing Party”…..could turn out to be foretelling if we continue to pretend that Romney can carry the GOP torch.
Actually the money flowing into the pockets comes from the pocket of wage earning / tax paying American workers. The shame of it is that it is flowing into the pockets of wasteful government officials and others who are using it to perpetuate a socialistic state as taught by liberal progressives in Ivy League schools such as Harvard Business School.
David, are federal and military pensions included in transfer payments? What about earned S.S.?
So what? Are you going to complain that people that receive ‘free money’ are still allowed to vote? Don’t be dense! This has always been the socialist plan and there is NO WAY to stop it unless..we start reporting it! Wage slaves get their W-2′s. Independent contractors and investors get their 1099-MISC. Used to work but now on unemployment? Perhaps you need a 1099-G. Welfare and food stamp line experts should get their 1099-GOV. When we all see that X dollars is awarded a breathing entity from the government and reported on a 1099-GOV then we know what amount should be exempted from Federal taxation for breathing and working individuals. Simple. And remember, EVERY Federal, State, County, City government currently cuts W-2′s and 1099-MISC. It is a simple database port to implement this. IF YOU decide to force it then it can happen in two weeks.
Republicans will have to stay carefully on message this year to counter Obama’s efforts to corrupt the electorate through fear and dependency.
Well said. And perfectly enunciated by Mitt Romney last week when he framed the idea of choosing between ‘government centered life’ and individual path of life.
1 in 5 dollars flow from governnment. AFTER IT FLOWS FROM OUR POCKETS FIRST.
government has no $$ except what they take from us.