Who Really... Benefits

 

The Republicans campaign on the idea that too many Americans receive benefits, Romney and his famous 47% condemnation of America, will probably doom national Republican candidates for decades to come. There is another side to this-the idea that 47% of Americans are hopeless dependent on federal handouts because they are poor. The targets of this message are people who receive a great deal of government benefits ( a great deal more than the poor) and persist to condemn the poor for the same conduct.

 

Paul  Ryan was the poster child for this hypocrisy: social security was critical to his path; but the voters who "buy in" get subsidies too- big ones- public golf courses, marinas, exceptional care of streets and cleanups; exceptional police and fire protection, world class hospitals-- all of these things are subsidized by government and taxpayers not to mention the business side- judicial enforcement of intellectual property, protection of creditors rights-- all of these things to which the wealthy feel entitled, not dependent, and really in this age seem to constantly ask/demand more-- people in Detroit pay property taxes through the nose and can barely get trash pickups, potholes that loosen fillings. It is the overall hypocrisy of the message that makes it fail-- derivatives trades and traders get more government benefits that people on welfare by far-- they have a protected/sheltered enterprise bigger than the economies of most countries. The full faith and credit of the United States is not just a product of tax and spend balances, it is everything.  The people who fight our wars, fill the ranks of civil service, civil defense; the people who support laws and civil conduct here.  It is the parents who raise families by sacrifice and keep kids in school to learn to be productive and leaders. 

 

There are lies and then there are damned lies, and people have a way- like a sensitive sense of smell- to detect the rottened GOP core here...hdm