Monday, April 21, 2014

The Welfare State of Affairs

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A record number of people are now on food stamps, social security disability, and long term unemployment assistance. Full time jobs are drying up faster than private sector health insurance plans, and the underemployment rate continues to climb. 

Read more... on the Incompetent Socialist, Barack Obama.

A woman approached me at the Home Depot parking lot--she had been renting a house with her two kids and, according to her, it was set ablaze by the Haitian landlords. I forget where she said this happened but it was somewhere south of here.  She is on Medicaid, food stamps, housing subsidies, you name it and she needed money. She has had a hard life, she says.

Whether her story is true or not, there are millions of people needing help in this country, the most prosperous country on Earth and she has become another panhandler. We all ask how did this happen--why do we have so much poverty in America?

As someone said an I don't remember where I read it, Ever so often they (the government) toss a scapegoat or an invisible monster to take blame for this societal and economic downward spiral of our American nation. Will it get harder? Probably. Is there hope? Hopefully. Since the end of the generation has brought prosperity in the '50's and social equality in the '60's down, down we go. I hope the next generation of kids wake up from their Xboxes, computers, cell phones and the rest of their mind-sucking gadgets and diversions and see that all is not well. Previous generations have failed you, don't follow in their footsteps........................Lunch is over back to the salt mines, good luck kid.
PS take IT in college, no one cares about anything else.

Of course you can see what Information Technology did to the Obamacare website. Another massive failure that has caused millions to lose their medical insurance and people forced to keep hitting the reset button.  What's next?

2 comments:

Venus said...

It is sad to see people get trapped into living for what the US government can give them for free and not aspire to above those freebees, I pity people that live their lives this way, how limiting. People need to learn to work for themselves and work hard and become something great. There is just too much mediocrity in this country now, much passed down by our very own government, entrapping people and hurting them and their futures. We are a sad welfare state now, no one believes in themselves that they can work hard and rise above. Our government hurts people more by giving them all of this and not making them believe they can do it on their own. It makes me sad. I count my blessings that I am not in that state of mind and held back from reaching the stars.

Anonymous said...

Why this happens is simple. Where this is greed, there is poverty.