Mission Statement: This blog reviews the news of the day in light of 242 years of American history. "Nationalism," a modern day pejorative, has been our country's politic throughout history, until 2008. Obama changed that narrative. Trump is seeking a return to our historical roots. Midknight Review supports this return to normality.
Do you realize that Progressive Democrats almost never represent national values. Here, we have environmentalists demonstrating against Keystone . . . . all 15 or 20 of them.
"Why is it that if you're a corporation, and you take advantage of a tax break, that is 'smart business'; but if you take advantage of something you need to not be hungry, you're 'a moocher'?" - Jon Stewart
Well, Stewart has a point. But virtually no one in the U.S. is starving and "poor" in American terms. Understand that a family of four, at the "poverty level" ($22,000 a years) in our country, finds that family in the top 7% of the world's population. Poverty in America, is a figment of the liberal's imagination and a huge population of "food stampers," are moocher, fully capable of earning a living, but to damn lazy to try.
22,000 a yr. is 1,833 and month. Rent for 4 = $800, + auto, renters and health insurance = $400, utilities = $300... $200 for gas and misc expenses... that leaves a family of four $133 to eat on for a month. And these expense estimates are conservative. These are the 'lazy people' who don't deserve 'entitlements'.
This is normal 'middle class' life in a conservative America. This is what conservatives call a living wage while they defeat wage hikes for the poor, deny subsidies and take food from the hungry while increasing the tax breaks for the wealthy and expand their abilities to buy elections and suppress the vote. The goals here are so very clear
You forgot to add-in the welfare monies these poor folks receive: $800/$400 a month for Section Eight rent assistance, $800 to $1,200 for food stamp assistance, $5,000 in healthcare subsidies, $1,000 to no more than $3,000 for the child tax credit subsidy . . . . all of which adds up to as much as $4,000 a month in welfare assistance or a total of $48,000 a year plus whatever they earn and what they earn but fail to report. So, in quick review, and, if we add in the $5,000 healthcare subsidy, we are looking at $31,000 per year on the low side, and $53,000 a year on the high side . . . . just in available welfare benefits.
Understand that any of the individual subsidy programs named in my comment excluding the healthcare subsidy, would give the working poor, a combined income of no less than $30,000 per year counting their income. So cut your crap, and, oh, give up on your "Christ complaint" since you have no rights to the sincere use of that name, you being an infidel and all.
My numbers come from DOL, HHS, gov.com. It is rather simple, jack, to verify. All you have to paste a number with its context into Google, and, shazam, you will have a fact, most often having nothing to do with your talking point nonsense. Ignorance is why Obama was elected and re-elected. You are a perfect example of this point.
As far as what Jesus would do, sarcasm does not win an argument. Rather, it is indicative of a closed mind and a narrow world view that camps on ignorance and make-believe. It is "make-believe," after all, to think that Utopianism in its various forms, actually works. It does not and we have centuries of history on this matter. The Utopian Progressive, more than believing in something that does not work, goes so far as to condemn free market capitalism as an impossible economic. The lib does so forgetting that until Obama, the U.S.was the leader in a world of chaos, a nation in which its citizens (including it poorest) rank in the top 7% of the worlds population as to wealth, and, they "got there" because of the very system our Marxist Misfits condemn as a failed system. Incredible. "Trickle down does not work and is not fair" is the mantra in spite of the established fact that our very poor are so much more secure and wealthy than most of the rest of the world. Incredible bordering on stupid.
Christian conservative thinking.
ReplyDelete"Why is it that if you're a corporation, and you take advantage of a tax break, that is 'smart business'; but if you take advantage of something you need to not be hungry, you're 'a moocher'?" - Jon Stewart
Matthew 25:35
Well, Stewart has a point. But virtually no one in the U.S. is starving and "poor" in American terms. Understand that a family of four, at the "poverty level" ($22,000 a years) in our country, finds that family in the top 7% of the world's population. Poverty in America, is a figment of the liberal's imagination and a huge population of "food stampers," are moocher, fully capable of earning a living, but to damn lazy to try.
Delete22,000 a yr. is 1,833 and month. Rent for 4 = $800, + auto, renters and health insurance = $400, utilities = $300... $200 for gas and misc expenses... that leaves a family of four $133 to eat on for a month. And these expense estimates are conservative. These are the 'lazy people' who don't deserve 'entitlements'.
ReplyDeleteThis is normal 'middle class' life in a conservative America. This is what conservatives call a living wage while they defeat wage hikes for the poor, deny subsidies and take food from the hungry while increasing the tax breaks for the wealthy and expand their abilities to buy elections and suppress the vote. The goals here are so very clear
So very Christ-like.
You forgot to add-in the welfare monies these poor folks receive: $800/$400 a month for Section Eight rent assistance, $800 to $1,200 for food stamp assistance, $5,000 in healthcare subsidies, $1,000 to no more than $3,000 for the child tax credit subsidy . . . . all of which adds up to as much as $4,000 a month in welfare assistance or a total of $48,000 a year plus whatever they earn and what they earn but fail to report. So, in quick review, and, if we add in the $5,000 healthcare subsidy, we are looking at $31,000 per year on the low side, and $53,000 a year on the high side . . . . just in available welfare benefits.
DeleteUnderstand that any of the individual subsidy programs named in my comment excluding the healthcare subsidy, would give the working poor, a combined income of no less than $30,000 per year counting their income. So cut your crap, and, oh, give up on your "Christ complaint" since you have no rights to the sincere use of that name, you being an infidel and all.
Anyone can make up numbers, jack. Where in the hell did you get yours, or is that even important to you nutjob types.
DeleteJesus would give take breaks to the wealthy and starve the poor.
DeleteMy numbers come from DOL, HHS, gov.com. It is rather simple, jack, to verify. All you have to paste a number with its context into Google, and, shazam, you will have a fact, most often having nothing to do with your talking point nonsense. Ignorance is why Obama was elected and re-elected. You are a perfect example of this point.
DeleteAs far as what Jesus would do, sarcasm does not win an argument. Rather, it is indicative of a closed mind and a narrow world view that camps on ignorance and make-believe. It is "make-believe," after all, to think that Utopianism in its various forms, actually works. It does not and we have centuries of history on this matter. The Utopian Progressive, more than believing in something that does not work, goes so far as to condemn free market capitalism as an impossible economic. The lib does so forgetting that until Obama, the U.S.was the leader in a world of chaos, a nation in which its citizens (including it poorest) rank in the top 7% of the worlds population as to wealth, and, they "got there" because of the very system our Marxist Misfits condemn as a failed system. Incredible. "Trickle down does not work and is not fair" is the mantra in spite of the established fact that our very poor are so much more secure and wealthy than most of the rest of the world. Incredible bordering on stupid.