George Will: Citizenship for Illegal Immigrants Necessary to ‘Sustain the Welfare State’

George Will: Citizenship for Illegal Immigrants Necessary to ‘Sustain the Welfare State‘

Newsbusters ^ | April 14, 2013 | Noel Sheppard

 

Posted on Monday, April 15, 2013 4:46:13 AM by Bratch

On ABC’s This Week Sunday, George Will made a comment about the need for a path to citizenship for illegal immigrants that is likely to raise eyebrows on both sides of the aisle.

Lawmaker Explains Sending Photo of Genitals to Government Computer… “Massachusetts Democratic State Representative John Fresolo complained that “people are misinterpreting the rationale behind what I did.””

Lawmaker Explains Sending Photo of Genitals to Government Computer

 

Semi-News/Semi-Satire ^ | 30 Mar 2013 | John Semmens

 

Posted on Sunday, March 31, 2013 1:15:30 PM by John Semmens

 

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Massachusetts Democratic State Representative John Fresolo complained that “people are misinterpreting the rationale behind what I did.” What he did was send a digital photo of his penis to a computer at the State House. A legislative aide who saw the photo lodged a complaint with the Ethics Committee.

 

Fresolo maintained that he was “pilot-testing a new element for sexual offender databases.

 

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Right now, all we have on sex offenders is facial photographs. In cases where a rapist wears a mask the victim may not be able to identify her assailant. By providing another data point we could close more cases.”

 

Government Website For Immigrants: Come To America And… (Sounds Like…CommOrganizing, Etc…))

Government Website For Immigrants: Come To America And Take Advantage Of Our Free Stuff

By Michael Snyder

November 19th, 2012

A website run by the federal government (“WelcomeToUSA.gov“) encourages new immigrants to the United States to apply for welfare benefits. This website is run by the Department of Homeland Security and it says that it “is the U.S. Government’s official web portal for new immigrants.” So your tax dollars were used to build and maintain a website that teaches immigrants how to come into this country and sponge a living off of federal welfare programs paid for by your tax dollars.

(See Reader Responses) ~ Is Cloward-Piven being successfully implemented?

 

My understanding of the Cloward-Piven strategy is that in order to get everyone a guaranteed income and “end poverty”, you had to ‘overload” the US public welfaresystem and get as many people as possible on welfare, government handouts and the like.

 

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Over 100 Million Now Receiving Federal Welfare

 

A new chart set to be released later today by the Republican side of the Senate Budget Committee details a startling statistic: “Over 100 Million People in U.S. Now Receiving Some Form Of Federal Welfare.”

The Great Transformation: From the Welfare State to the Imperial Police State | Veterans Today

The ‘Great Transformation’ occurred exclusively from above, organized by the upper echelons of the civil and military bureaucracy under the direction of the Executive and his National Security Council.

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The ‘Great Transformation’ was not a single event but a process of the accumulation of powers, via executive fiats, supported and approved by compliant Congressional leaders.

41 million Americans don’t get enough sleep

(CBSNEWS) — If you happen to be at work right now and you’re feeling tired, you’ve got a lot of company. A new CDC study finds more than 40 million workers get fewer than six hours of sleep per night – that’s about 30 percent of the country’s civilian workforce.

“The problem with Socialism is, that eventually you run out of other people’s money.” ~ Is The United States of America a Failed Welfare State?

Is The United States of America a Failed Welfare State?

Graewoulf | November 10, 2011 | Graewoulf

Posted on Thursday, November 10, 2011 10:43:04 AM by Graewoulf

The financial death spiral of the US Federal Government has been caused by financially irresponsible politicians during the last 80 years. Their lack of stewardship has resulted in them charging us with a National Debt of 14.8 TRILLION dollars, which must be paid back, plus interest, to those who we borrowed the money from.

We have indeed allowed these same politicians to cruelly burden our own grandchild with this horrific National Debt. We have no one to blame but ourselves for electing them in the first place, and not impeaching them when they failed to spend our money within our means.

Retiree Benefits for the Military Could Face Cuts

As Washington looks to squeeze savings from once-sacrosanct entitlements like Social Security and Medicare, another big social welfare system is growing as rapidly, but with far less scrutiny: the health and pension benefits of military retirees.

Military pensions and health care for active and retired troops now cost the government about $100 billion a year, representing an expanding portion of both the Pentagon budget — about $700 billion a year, including war costs — and the national debt, which together finance the programs.

Making even incremental reductions to military benefits is typically a doomed political venture, given the public’s broad support for helping troops, the political potency of veterans groups and the fact that significant savings take years to appear.

But the intense push in Congress this year to reduce the debt and the possibility that the Pentagon might have to begin trimming core programs like weapons procurement, research, training and construction have suddenly made retiree benefits vulnerable, military officials and experts say.

And if Congress fails to adopt the deficit-reduction recommendations of a bipartisan joint Congressional committee this fall, the Defense Department will be required under debt ceiling legislation passed in August to find about $900 billion in savings over the coming decade. Cuts that deep will almost certainly entail reducing personnel benefits for active and retired troops, Pentagon officials and analysts say.

“We’ve got to put everything on the table,” Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta said recently on PBS, acknowledging that he was looking at proposals to rein in pension costs.

(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com …

via Retiree Benefits for the Military Could Face Cuts.

The Obama-Piven-Palin Strategy

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The Obama-Piven-Palin Strategy

The Next Right ^ | 11/14/2010 | Adam SelenePosted on Thursday, February 10, 2011 1:12:44 PM by

GarthVaderObama associated with Marxists and other lefty radicals when he was young. This is not controversial.

The real question is whether he still associates with such radical riff-raff today, or worse, is secretly carrying out their nefarious plans.

In one case the answer is: we can only hope so.I am referring to the infamous Cloward-Piven Strategy, an undemocratic plan to force a basic income guarantee by overloading the welfare system with applicants.

Excerpt Read more at thenextright.com …

If We Quit Voting by Frank Chodorov

This essay originally appeared in July 1945 in a monthly newsletter Chodorov established called analysis.

It later appeared as a chapter in his book Out of Step: The Autobiography of an Individualist 1962.

New York in midsummer is measurably more miserable than any other place in this world – and should be comparable to the world for which all planners are headed. Why New Yorkers, otherwise sane, should choose to parboil their innards in a political campaign during this time of the year is a question that comes under the head of man’s inscrutable propensity for self-punishment. And if a fellow elects to let the whole thing pass him by, some socially conscious energumen is bound to sweat him with a lecture on civic duty, like the citizeness who came at me.For 25 years my dereliction has been known to my friends, and more than one has undertaken to set me straight; out of these arguments came a solid defense for my nonvoting position, so that the lady in question was well parried with practiced retorts.

I pointed out, with many instances, that though we have had candidates and platforms and parties and campaigns in abundance, we have had an equivalent plenitude of poverty and crime and war. The regularity with which the perennial promise of “good times” wound up in depression suggested the incompetence of politics in economic affairs. Maybe the good society we have been voting for lay some other way; why not try another fork in the road, the one pointing to individual self-improvement, particularly in acquiring a knowledge of economics?

And so on.There was one question put to me by my charming annoyer that I deftly sidestepped, for the day was sultry and the answer called for some mental effort. The question: “What would happen if we quit voting?”If you are curious about the result of noneating you come upon the question of why we eat. So, the query put to me by the lady brings up the reason for voting.

The theory of government by elected representatives is that these fellows are hired by the voting citizenry to take care of all matters relating to their common interests. However, it is different from ordinary employment in that the representative is not under specific orders, but is given blanket authority to do what he believes desirable for the public welfare in any and all circumstances, subject to constitutional limitations. In all matters relating to public affairs the will of the individual is transferred to the elected agent, whose responsibility is commensurate with the power thus invested in him…