Reflections From a Murky Pond

It seems that not even NBC, one of Obama’s most loyal shills, can get a straight answer out of the boy to even softball questions about entitlement reform as the talking heads of Meet The Press found out.

As always when confronted with any questions that even vaguely resemble being substantive, Obama stayed true the script his masters and handlers provided for him to jabber from, which meant staying firmly off point whenever an actual answer to the question who be more definite and, hence, more open to accountability, than the “Present” for which the boy is so well known.

In many ways it’s amazing that anyone even bothers to ask Obama questions at all.  It’s not as if the boy’s built up a track record of answering them.  It’d make for sense for the few real journalists left in America to simply ignore him and for the MSM to just go forward as they started by giving him feeder lines for his next oratory tap dance performance.

Tags: Economy | Entitlement Society | MSM | NBC | Obama | Politics | Welfare | Welfare State

This entry was posted on Monday, December 31st, 2012 at 10:08 am and is filed under Politics. You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed.

As all Americans know, it’s the wealth producers, the productive members of society, who are forced into bearing the burden of supporting and subsidizing the eaters and takers existing within our nation’s borders. What most do not, however, realize is just how critically bad the situation is now and are likely to remain.

As of 2011, 11 states have more residents on Welfare than they have citizens who are employed: Alabama, California, Hawaii, Illinois, Kentucky, Maine, Mississippi, New Mexico, New York, Ohio, and South Carolina. Meanwhile, the total American workforce continues to shrink and is now at its lowest level in more than thirty years with only 63.6% of American adults employed or unemployed but still looking for work.. and 19% of them are employed by the government.

Two Things To Ponder

1. What do you think will happen when, in the not-too-distant future, the eaters and taker equal or outnumber the makers?
2. How bad are things already when cutting the size of government will noticeably impact national employment figures?

If anyone truly thinks that this is sustainable, they’re delusional. There just aren’t enough workers left to support the lives and lifestyles of the drones and the very measures that the government now chooses to use to deal with this just accelerate the impending collapse because those measures always include increasing taxes in order to make up some portion of the difference, which drives businesses under or overseas and stifles investment that might fund new businesses.

If you want an example of how this can play out, don’t look just at Greece. Look at Egypt!

Tags: Economics | Economy | Employment | Government | Politics | Society | Unemployment | Welfare | Welfare State

This entry was posted on Sunday, December 23rd, 2012 at 4:00 pm and is filed under Politics, Society. You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed.

Sometimes referred to as part of Scottish Wisdom and meant with all humor, this blunt statement carries with it a great weight of vastly unpleasant truth.

Help a man when he’s in trouble, and he’ll remember you when he’s in trouble again.

I think that what humor it evokes is of the “you either have to laugh or cry variety.”

It’s true though; more often than not, the result of helping is man is that he’ll first turn to you the next time he believes that he needs help – and so the cycle of irresponsibility and dependance begins.

Tags: Entitlement Society | Foreign Aid | Humor | Welfare | Wisdom

This entry was posted on Thursday, September 29th, 2011 at 9:04 am and is filed under Musings, Society. You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed.

“Feeding the Monkeys” is slang for doing something that you know is stupid, unwise, and/or contra-indicated. It almost always has a negative result. It is also a very apt metaphor for America’s ever-expanding entitlement programs.

Feeding The Monkeys Is Not A Wise Choice

The maddening fact that these “safety net” entitlement programs bear greatest resemblance to animal husbandry than anything meant to foster, or even maintain, human dignity just makes the comparison more accurate and pointed.

All we’ll ever get by feeding the monkeys is feeding frenzies, hand-out recipients squabbling and stealing each others’ “Government Manna,” and uncontrolled population increase among the subsidized groups. Worse, after some time being “fed,” neither they nor their progeny are capable of “being released back into the wild.”

This holds equally true for any all corporations that were declared Too Big To Fail and/or those industries that are now or have been receiving copious federal subsidies.

It’s all the same. It doesn’t matter if they’re sagging and wearing Ecko, Sean John, or Apple Bottom, or they’re in Brooks Brothers, Hermes, or Ralph Lauren; the feeding frenzy is fundamentally the same as is the expectancy that the trough will be refilled.

Tags: America | Common Sense | Entitlement Society | Politics | Poverty | Socialism | Stimulus | Subsidies | TARP | Welfare | Welfare State

This entry was posted on Thursday, January 27th, 2011 at 9:26 am and is filed under Politics, Society. You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed.

Thomas Sowell’s A Man of Letters is a book that most people in America should read. It is certainly, without a doubt, a book that every White should read in order to help dispel the Liberals’ long perpetuated myths about race relations in America and how their policies have affected it.

While nowhere near Sowell’s first publication, A Man Of Letters is a particularly great starting point for reading Sowell’s extensive body of work.

To-date Thomas Sowell has written 32 books and many more scholarly papers during the last 39 years on race relations, societal modeling, history, politics, and economics. Many of these books are considered seminal works in their respective fields. A Man Of Letters, however, gives a rare glimpse into the mind of the author and is, therefor, a great starting point for new readers of his works.

A Man of Letters traces the life, career, and commentaries on controversial issues of Thomas Sowell over a period of more than four decades through his letters to and from family, friends, and public figures ranging from Milton Friedman to Clarence Thomas, David Riesman, Arthur Ashe, William Proxmire, Vernon Jordan, Charles Murray, Shelby Steele, and Condoleezza Rice. These letters begin with Sowell as a graduate student at the University of Chicago in 1960 and conclude with a reflective letter to his fellow economist and longtime friend Walter Williams in 2005.

It is certainly worth the time it takes to read and is a book I highly recommend for everyone in America.

Tags: Blacks | Books & Reading | Entitlement Society | Political Correctness | Politics | Racism | Society | Sowell | Statism | Welfare

This entry was posted on Sunday, January 23rd, 2011 at 1:45 pm and is filed under Books & Reading, Politics, Society. You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed.