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Christie the Prophet

George4059 Wrote: Apr 21, 2012 6:09 PM

Anytime "The Left was outraged"...you can bet that the truth was finally told by somebody. Gov Christie is absolutely right. When you have able-bodied people on lifelong welfare roles and nobody stops them...they are called freeloaders..period. If those people made bad choices and have no one to blame but themselves... they have to face consequences...that does not include living off of the taxes of other hard-working people. 'Welfare' should be a short term assistance..not multi-generational welfare parasites. The left will say that I'm heartless... My heart goes out to anybody who is struggling to survive in this economic meltdown.. not to those who abuse my tax dollars. Gov't is out of control..everywhere.

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Christie the Prophet

New Jersey governor Chris Christie recently warned that America is in danger of becoming a country of “people sitting on the couch waiting for their next government check.” Predictably, the Left was outraged, but Governor Christie wasn’t far off the mark.

During the 2011 debate over raising the debt ceiling, President Obama reminded Americans that the federal government sends out 70 million checks every month. That is probably an underestimate. According to the Washington Post, the president’s number included Social Security, veterans’ benefits, and spending on non-defense contractors and vendors, but not reimbursements to Medicare providers and vendors or electronic...