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Is Obama Buying the Election With His Welfare Explosion?

loadstar Wrote: Oct 20, 2012 10:33 AM

re: "the rich" will pay for Obama's welfare programs" >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> As Margaret Thatcher opined, the trouble with taxing other people to pay for unbridled big guvment is that you eventually run out of OTHER people to tax! As another great Brit Churchill added, “The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings. The inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of misery.” If you make living off the guvment too attractive, why work?! Remember the Welfare Queens? O wants them back! He is quietly undoing the Welfare reform forced on Clinton by the Republican Congress Vote ROMNEY to try to stem the ineluctable trend toward our slouching into becoming Greece or Spain.

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Is Obama Buying the Election With His Welfare Explosion?

With the unprecedented budget explosion of means-tested, welfare-related entitlements, does Team Obama think it can buy the election?

It's a cynical question. But I wouldn't put it past that cynical bunch.

Remember Harry Hopkins, Franklin Roosevelt's close aid? It was Hopkins who argued tax and tax, spend and spend, elect and elect. Sound familiar? And if I'm not mistaken, the high-tax, anti-rich, big-spending, redistributionist FDR is one of Barack Obama's idols.

So let's take a look at some of the recent budget-explosion data points:

According to Jeff Sessions, the ranking Republican on the Senate Budget Committee, means-tested...

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