A Trumped-Up War on Welfare

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By Bob Lord


You’re the top 1 percent. You pocket one out of every five dollars of the nation’s income — more than double your slice of that pie in 1976. You want even more, but the masses are catching on. What do you do?

You get your minions to attack the bottom 1 percent to distract the 98 percent in the middle.

That’s why the Cato Institute recently launched a woefully contrived “study” that reached the pre-ordained conclusion that welfare pays more than work — minimum wage work that is. Forbes, a leading business publication that calls itself a “capitalist tool,” proclaimed “On Labor Day 2013, Welfare Pays More Than Minimum-Wage Work In 35 States.”

Cato is a libertarian think tank funded and dominated by the multi-billionaire brothers Charles and David Koch.

Forbes of course trotted out the obligatory “compassionate” lines about how welfare creates the wrong incentives and “mires people in permanent poverty.” But the intended take-away was how the “national welfare championship” went to Hawaii, which according to Cato’s calculations lavishes up to $60,590 in annual welfare benefits on certain households.

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[gopiscrap]

1. How can these fuckers live with theselves

I am becoming more and more a socialist everyday!

[1-Old-Man]

2. It is never difficult to live with yourself when you have docile servants at your disposal

If you are completely immersed in your own version of hedonism and nothing is beyond your reach or control what is there not to live with? Life is pure pleasure on demand, every whim satisfied, and daily reinforcement of the wisdom of your life's decisions pours in on you.

Oh, and in the title where I used the word "docile" I was not kidding. I meant it when I implied they were disposable too.