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发帖数: 6858 | 1 Romney tells the truth about dependency
"There are 47% of the people who will vote for the president no matter what.
All right, there are 47% who are with him, who are dependent upon
government, who believe that they are victims, who believe the government
has a responsibility to care of them, who believe that they are entitled to
healthcare, to food, to housing, to you name it." Republican presidential
nominee Mitt Romney, from secretly recorded remarks at a fundraiser
Mitt Romney told the truth. His numbers may be debated, but Romney told the
truth about government dependency and the baseline for liberal Democratic
presidential candidates. Harry Hopkins, a top aide to President Franklin D.
Roosevelt, the most liberal president in American history prior to President
Barack Obama, summed up liberal electoral strategy a lifetime ago. "Tax and
tax, "Hopkins said. "Spend and spend. Elect and elect."
Romney may have missed the mark on the exact numbers and many will attempt
to repudiate his argument with phony philosophy as they try to refute the
shocking reality of our growing welfare state. But data doesn't lie.
Romney said 47 percent of Americans are "dependent upon government" and said
these 47 percent will vote for Obama "no matter what." While there's no way
to prove that all those folks will vote for Obama, Romney was actually
referring to a growing social and fiscal problem when he identified his "47
percent" as those who "pay no income tax."
In a 2010 column, I quoted Scott Hodge of the Tax Foundation:
"The number of 'nonpayers' can be expected to soar due to programs such as
President Obama's 'Making Work Pay' tax credit. We now have an enormous
class of Americans who are disconnected from the cost of government and have
no skin in the game, and that is not good for democracy. It's a very
serious problem for not only our democracy but for our society to have so
many people disconnected from the cost of government," Hodge said. "If you
know someone else is paying for something, you'll demand ever more of it."
So was Romney right about the number of nonpayers? Data doesn't lie as the
graph below from the Heritage Foundation shows:
Romney was making a larger point, though. Under Obama, the number of
Americans receiving some type of government assistance has skyrocketed and
shows no signs of abating. Again, as the chart from the Senate Budget
Committee shows, data doesn't lie.
As the Weekly Standard reported:
Food stamps and Medicaid make up a large--and growing--chunk of the more
than 100 million recipients. "Among the major means tested welfare programs,
since 2000 Medicaid has increased from 34 million people to 54 million in
2011 and the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP, or food stamps
) from 17 million to 45 million in 2011," says the Senate Budget Committee.
"Spending on food stamps alone is projected to reach $800 billion over the
next decade."
Romney said, "(M)y job is not to worry about those people," Romney said of
welfare-receiving Obama supporters. "I'll never convince them they should
take personal responsibility and care for their lives." Again, Romney told
the truth. He cannot convince those on the dole to step up and take charge
of their own destiny. For too long too many Americans have been told they
are victims, that the successful have somehow taken something from them,
that the wealthy are responsible for their dire straits or that the system
is stacked against them.
Obama and his acolytes and idolaters will no doubt make much of Romney's
frank assessment. But he is voicing - granted, inartfully - the concern of
many Americans that government has become too much of a helicopter mommy,
hovering too close to American life in a laughable attempt to try to prevent
any harm from coming to any American. Many Americans feel Uncle Sam has
turned into Uncle Sugar (as in "Daddy") and our nation is the worse for it.
A majority of Americans still - after four years of Obama - think government
does too much. Data doesn't lie and Gallup helpfully released new data
today:
Of course, the loudest voice in this blame game comes from the very one who
has blamed every unfulfilled promise, every unmet expectation, every failed
program, every foolish policy and the worsening conditions in our country on
everyone but himself. The Victim-in-Chief has opened the door to greater
dependency, greater evasion of responsibility and an unprecedented expansion
of the welfare state. Those investing nothing (the nonpayers) and receiving
much (the 100-plus million on welfare) have nothing to gain and everything
to lose by even considering anything but a vote for Obama.
Data doesn't lie. Neither did Romney. | f*********g
发帖数: 1637 | 2 http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/06/28/who-doesnt-pay-fed
Current situation was originated from GOP administrations, now a GOP
nominee is using the situation to belittle those beneficiaries , how cool
it is and how ridiculous it is.
Besides, the claim "There are 47% of the people who will vote for the
president no matter what.
All right, there are 47% who are with him." is simply not true. Some
considerate portion of it is Teabaggers. Romney is so uninformed to offend
those low income voters, even normal Right critisizes him, except extreme
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