Cons/Repubicans: The welfare state?

Question

While the conservatives have gutted the welfare system for poor people-fulfilling a pledge to "end welfare as we know it"-no such top-down agenda has emerged for corporate welfare recipients. The savage demagoguery directed against imaginary "welfare queens" has never been matched with parallel denunciations of gluttonous corporate welfare kings-the DuPonts, General Motors and Bristol-Myers-Squibbs or Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac, Countrywide, and Bear-Stearns. Not to mention bailing out the airline industry 3 times in 3 decades.

The welfare law denies benefits even to legal immigrants in this country; corporate welfare, by contrast, is far more non-discriminating-Uncle Sam subsidizes foreign corporations as well as domestic businesses. Can you imagine the Congress deciding to extend the welfare for people program to cover poor Canadians? Maybe not, but the federal government provides millions of dollars in subsidies to Canadian mining companies every year.

Where is your outcry for this welfare system as you bash the supposed "welfare queens"? You scream about the tax and spend liberals, wanting to pay people for nothing, yet, you allow your hard earned tax dollars to bailout businesses that can't do their job right. What say you, oh, tax conscious conservatives? Do you want safe drinking water, driveable roads and a public transport system that actually works? How about public schools with roofs that don't leak? Or would you prefer to afford subsidies, bailouts, and tax loopholes for huge corporations that fail and drain the public purse that is supposed to be in place to promote our citizens welfare and well being?

Answer 1

i like cheese.

Answer 2

I agree with your premise, but you didn't take it far enough. Look how many millions of homeowners expect a mortgage interest tax deduction (courtesy of government). See how many millions receive - or expect to receive - a Social Security check just because they 'paid into it' during their working years, even though they don't need the money, drive luxury cars, live in multiple homes, take exotic vacations, and dine in five-star restaurants. Still, Social Security has become America's biggest boondoggle - America's great hand out.

Corporations request low-cost government loans when they need to be 'bailed out' for mismanagement. Citizens expect low-cost government loans to help send their kids to college (and many of those loans never are repaid). Almost all American citizens have discovered a way to suck at the government's teat, but they choose only to criticize those Americans who need government assistance most: those who are disadvantaged, underprivileged, sick, elderly, disabled, poor, unemployed, under-educated, homeless or hungry.

Those are the people government SHOULD be helping instead of cow-towing to every other hand outstretched for 'assistance' from well-to-do American citizens and wealthy, profitable corporations.

Corporate welfare and 'hand-outs' to the middle and upper-class citizens cost hundreds of billions more than the paltry sums expended for social welfare programs.

As Alexander Tyler once said: "A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover they can vote themselves largess from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy followed by a dictatorship". Tyler also pointed out that the average 'age' of the world's greatest civilizations has been about 200 years. The U.S. is at year 232, and on the very brink of economic, social, political and moral decay.       -RKO-   08/06/08

Answer 3

thank you for spreading the word~!!!

woke up this morning and found that some punk little republicans, hiding behind the flag, wannabe Hall Monitors of the United States, cried too mommy and had my  second  account in 2 years suspended!!!

seems as though the rightwingnuts are being paid to get on here and stir up trouble~!!!

Answer 4

I agree with your premise.  Welfare, be it corporate or individual, is unacceptable.  Don't forget, however, that the Bear-Stearns bailout you mentioned was a result of the current congress (the one the democrats control).  Taxing the working guy, like you and me, had better result in benefits like better roads, schools, and national defense.  We, the people, need to hold these folks in national office accountable.  Call them down when they violate our trust, be they Republican or Democrat.  We cannot allow the media or the blogs to create such animosity that we refuse to band together as a national force (the electorate).  Let's stand up together and say, "NO MORE".