I'm sick of people saying "at least you have a job" when there are lots of families sitting on their asses collecting welfare and food stamps while living in government subsidized housing nicer and cheaper than my crappy townhouse while I stress over paying my bills every month. Where exactly is my incentive to work and continue contributing to this?
My point exactly.
Obama is counting on a majority who depend on government, and there are incentives he is building for people to NOT work!
Disability claims are up from 1.9 million when Obama took office, to 3.9 million. Do all these people really need to be on disability? I work with an orthopedic specialist, part of whose job is to evaluate disability claims. He expresses maximum contempt for these people. In his words, they may not be able to do heavy lifting, but are certainly capable of sitting at a desk for 8 hours. But choose not to work.
Unemployment and food stamps are also way up under Obama. A few weeks ago, I saw a story about how the federal government in some areas is actually running radio commercials
encouraging people to enroll on food stamps! Incredible.
Add to that Obama's takeover of the banking sector, the healthcare sector, the auto industry bailout, and pushes for greater expansions of power and entitlement by labor unions (even as private sector annual salaries have dropped by $5,000).
And if Obama wins a second term, he will find a way to give amnesty to the estimated 20 million illegal immigrants, and put them on a path to citizenship, to (along with all the state-dependent Americans already addicted to DNC big-government entitlements) create a permanent Democrat voting majority.
The priority should be securing our borders and creating favorable economic conditions, and jobs, and benefits, for the existing U.S. citizens and immigrants who are LEGALLY in this country. Not giving benefits to people who demonstrated their contempt for this country and its laws by coming here illegally, and often march under Mexican flags.
Time and again, I see the Democrats pursuing what is politically expedient for them, even as it works toward the detriment and long-term decline of the rest of the nation.
Rome's leadership in its final decades had similar self-destructive policy, welcoming Vandals and Visigoths inside their borders. A few decades later, they killed the emperor who welcomed them.
