Comments on: Is Barack Obama A Socialist Or Just Righting A Wrong? http://www.bloggernews.net/118303 High-quality English language analysis and editorial writing on the news. Wed, 15 Feb 2012 17:04:31 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 By: ThirdWay http://www.bloggernews.net/118303#comment-716396 ThirdWay Sun, 26 Oct 2008 04:17:32 +0000 http://www.bloggernews.net/118303#comment-716396 Flash, Your analysis of the welfare state is incorrect. What you refer to as "Welfare" or means-tested social programs only composes 3.2% percent of our nation's GDP. How can something that is so minimally funded, be the "direct cause of our society's irresponsibility"? Furthermore, these social programs do not create an adequate incentive for people to skip out on work and join the ranks of the chronically unemployed. The majority of welfare recipients have jobs. The single mothers you lambast for having kids to receive money from the state are given meager benefits with a 5-year limit and a 30-hour work requirement. As for universal health care and bearing the burden of the "irresponsibility", you already do. The higher premiums you pay to the insurance companies are the direct result of laws that allow the uninsured to utilize our health care system without being able to pay for it. It seems like we're bearing the burden of your irresponsibility, when you let your ideology get in the way of coming up with practical solutions to the problems we as Americans face. Flash,

Your analysis of the welfare state is incorrect. What you refer to as “Welfare” or means-tested social programs only composes 3.2% percent of our nation’s GDP. How can something that is so minimally funded, be the “direct cause of our society’s irresponsibility”? Furthermore, these social programs do not create an adequate incentive for people to skip out on work and join the ranks of the chronically unemployed. The majority of welfare recipients have jobs. The single mothers you lambast for having kids to receive money from the state are given meager benefits with a 5-year limit and a 30-hour work requirement. As for universal health care and bearing the burden of the “irresponsibility”, you already do. The higher premiums you pay to the insurance companies are the direct result of laws that allow the uninsured to utilize our health care system without being able to pay for it. It seems like we’re bearing the burden of your irresponsibility, when you let your ideology get in the way of coming up with practical solutions to the problems we as Americans face.

]]> By: Flash http://www.bloggernews.net/118303#comment-713279 Flash Fri, 24 Oct 2008 12:51:08 +0000 http://www.bloggernews.net/118303#comment-713279 Commenting that an overwhelming majority of people on the battle field are from poor and middle class, let's go a little further into the reasons for this imbalance. It is a fact that educational benefits are made available to "minorities." In contrast, educational, as well as medical benefits for children of middle income (working class) are not federally funded. Thus, recipients of educational benefits are prepared for higher paying jobs while those who do not receive the assistance are employed by and serving in our military forces. There is no greater honor than serving our country. As far as "universal health care," and which would provide equal benefits even for those unwilling to work, drug addicts, moms who have children simply to collect welfare? Should we, the working class, middle income people have to bear the burden of irresponsibility? I do not think so. Liberal welfare benefits are the direct cause of society's irresponsibility. In reality, the Robin Hood concept is not new to our society. For too long, we the working class people have involuntarily funded products of a society that chose, in their opinion, a liberated lifestyle where tried and proven standards are no longer considered 'politically correct.' Do I feel an obligation to fund the mistakes of those who condemn and seek to destroy basic human values? What would one be who seeks to combine earned benefits of the working class people and divide equally among those who feel our country owes them a living? Commenting that an overwhelming majority of people on the battle field are from poor and middle class, let’s go a little further into the reasons for this imbalance. It is a fact that educational benefits are made available to “minorities.” In contrast, educational, as well as medical benefits for children of middle income (working class) are not federally funded. Thus, recipients of educational benefits are prepared for higher paying jobs while those who do not receive the assistance are employed by and serving in our military forces. There is no greater honor than serving our country. As far as “universal health care,” and which would provide equal benefits even for those unwilling to work, drug addicts, moms who have children simply to collect welfare? Should we, the working class, middle income people have to bear the burden of irresponsibility? I do not think so. Liberal welfare benefits are the direct cause of society’s irresponsibility. In reality, the Robin Hood concept is not new to our society. For too long, we the working class people have involuntarily funded products of a society that chose, in their opinion, a liberated lifestyle where tried and proven standards are no longer considered ‘politically correct.’ Do I feel an obligation to fund the mistakes of those who condemn and seek to destroy basic human values? What would one be who seeks to combine earned benefits of the working class people and divide equally among those who feel our country owes them a living?

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