Was just reading an article about one person’s experiences working at a Walmart. The article gave a few examples of the rampant welfare cheating going on. How food stamps and other means for “temporary” assistance are squandered on junk and the corresponding Entitled nature of the users. Good article.
This is not new, of course. Just another example of how human societies are probably based on various forms of symbiosis, parasitism, and other relationships on a continuum of bad thru good. Listen to any “conservative” talk radio show or read resources that cater to this, and you will find many other examples. Yes, there is definitely a problem. No denying that.
However, do any of these resources also bemoan the “getting over” that is practiced by the non-poor and educated? Nope. In fact, at the other end, getting over, inside info, loop holes, arbitrage, usury, cheating the system, and other techniques are what you do with what you can get. At any costs. You can even buy professional help in getting over.
From tax write-offs for gambling losses, vacation homes, and luxury yachts to subsidies for their ranches and estates, the government is subsidizing the lifestyles of the rich and famous. Multimillionaires are even receiving government checks for not working. This welfare for the well-off – costing billions of dollars a year – is being paid for with the taxes of the less fortunate, many who are working two jobs just to make ends meet, and IOUs to be paid off by future
generations. — link
This getting over is encouraged by business, society, and government. It must be, it fuels commerce. Happy people don’t need big screen TVs.
Perhaps, the wealthy are really predators, and the best food is what can come from what the middle class pays in taxes. Ant Milking Aphids comes to mind.
The poor have the poverty pimps and liberal political machines that cater and partake of this feeding frenzy, so called help of the unwashed stinky masses. At the other extreme we have the wealth pimps, the fake conservatives, those that promote the rich gospel and in the guise of spreading the wealth, merely sustain the ever widening gap between the haves and have not.
But genuine welfare for the poor, like TANF and food stamps, barely amounts to a CBO rounding error. Adding up the so-called “defense” budget, two unfunded wars, “national security” spending on DHS, CIA, DOE and NASA, and interest on debt from past wars, the bulk of the federal government’s budget goes to welfare for the Military-Industrial Complex.
Indeed, the dominant feature of the American polity is welfare for big business and the rich. This welfare consists of a wide array of government interventions into the market to enforce artificial scarcities and artificial property rights. — Welfare State for the Rich
What astounds me is that many consider America to be founded upon and led by Christian moral values. But, I see nothing today that pays back the suffering of Jesus on that cross. In fact, even in the religious realm there is a Getting Over: We pray and attend church so that in the Coming we too will be saved to that welfare state in the sky.
Wow, where did this rant come from?
Addendum
While browsing the web on this subject I found a whole bunch of weird stuff. What a wide range of political-economic “thought”. From anarchists to libertarians, liberals, conservative, blah, blah.
Is it really so hard to understand and see facts without the bullshit? What ever happened to good ole logic and math? The world is gray! All the little fancy colors, the red and the blues, the leftish and rightish are just figments of the social delusion, a trick of the light. No wonder dogs are great animals, they see the world as it is.
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