Judge Judy speaks out on where our tax dollars go in this case of Duane Brooks, Jr. who is scamming the government with all of his stipends, subsidies and assistance - and using none of it for what it was intended for.
Showing posts with label welfare. Show all posts
Showing posts with label welfare. Show all posts
Video of Judge Judy: Here's Who You Support With Taxes
Good grief:
On a tip from Roger Newman
Detroit Free Press: Keep welfare going so obese Detroit kids don't starve or something
An editorial from The Detroit Free Press: Summer hunger pains, campaign sponsors step up
But back to the premise I had in the headline - how is it that the freep is lamenting cuts in food programs when Detroit is known to have overweight/obese kids? It's kind of like this:
From just a few short years back: Fattest cities in USA - Detroit, Houston...
You will not see such a sight anywhere in the US, a country where having ac is quite absurdly a human right.
UPDATE: Via Instapundit:
UPDATE #2: Ask for "The Michelle Obama Special" at the Shake Shack
A brutal economy and cuts in public social programs have taken a huge toll on southeast Michigan, with more than 300,000 low-income children receiving free or reduced-price meals in school. When school is out in summer, those meals are gone, and the twin problems of hunger and poverty become even more critical.So is the freep here unintentionally admitting that the private market can do better than the government in meeting the nutritional needs of the poor? YOU BETCHA! If these private entities are doing this good in a time of recession, imagine how well they'll do in times of plenty of the government just got out of their way!
Unfortunately, people's needs often rise when government has the fewest resources to meet them. This year, state government cut programs for poor people and further eroded the safety net communities rely on.
The good news is that corporations are picking up some of the slack for school-age children in Wayne, Oakland and Macomb Counties. The Charter One Foundation, Hiller's Markets, Hollywood Markets, Ford Motor Company Fund and Community Services, and Enterprise Rent-A-Car are partnering with Forgotten Harvest and Gleaners Community Food Bank -- Michigan's leading hunger relief agencies -- to raise $500,000 and provide an added 2 million meals this summer.
But back to the premise I had in the headline - how is it that the freep is lamenting cuts in food programs when Detroit is known to have overweight/obese kids? It's kind of like this:
From just a few short years back: Fattest cities in USA - Detroit, Houston...
1. DetroitAs I have mentioned several times before, around 20 years ago when I was a graduate student, I volunteered a lot of time to Focus Hope in Detroit delivering boxes of food to the needy. Two things I learned: 1) Homes owned by old people smelled really, really bad and everything in the homes were ancient. 2) Homes owned by welfare recipients universally had top-of-the-line tvs, stereos and cable tv or dishes. All welfare recipients that I saw were obese. Every. Single. One. So not only were they able to overfeed themselves, but had money left over for many modern conveniences. For the record, starving children look like this:
2. Houston
3. Dallas
4. San Antonio
5. Chicago
UPDATE: Via Instapundit:
Related: Tax the burgers, subsidize the peasTHE DEFINITION OF INSANITY: Anti-obesity programs fail, so feds try again.
UPDATE #2: Ask for "The Michelle Obama Special" at the Shake Shack
Obama: Cut defense spending before food stamps
As I have said many times in this blog, and opposite of what liberals say, the tea party and conservatism are not 'anti-tax.' We are for limited taxation for a limited government as per the US Constitution. We do not gripe about funding the military because protection of the people is a legitimate function of government. Or on the local level funding police, firefighters and EMT because those are protections of the people and that is a legitimate function of government. But taking money from people to simply cut checks to other people is NOT a legitimate function of government and is stealing. Politicians that prioritize the latter are thieves:
In true liberal fashion, Obama is the head honch of the military-hating, welfare loving nanny state: Obama: Cut Defense Spending Before Food Stamps
UPDATE: A video of the above:
Also, Fiery Obama Claims He’s Fighting for ‘Working Stiffs’ Who Get ‘Raw Deal’
In true liberal fashion, Obama is the head honch of the military-hating, welfare loving nanny state: Obama: Cut Defense Spending Before Food Stamps
President Obama has taken some heat from Democrats--and particularly progressive Democrats--for his willingness to alter entitlement programs to reduce the deficit. But in an interview with NPR airing on Thursday and Friday, the president sought to reassure his base of his commitment to his party’s ideals."The most vulnerable?" Those would be the unborn, and Obama wants them killed. He voted for times as an Illinois Senator for outright infanticide - murder of the baby after he or she was born. Just so you know what the term vulnerable means to him.
“I think what's absolutely true is that core commitments that we make to the most vulnerable have to be maintained,” Obama said. “A lot of the spending cuts that we're making should be around areas like defense spending as opposed to food stamps.”
UPDATE: A video of the above:
Also, Fiery Obama Claims He’s Fighting for ‘Working Stiffs’ Who Get ‘Raw Deal’
Video: Obama Acknowledges Welfare Programs Encourage Dependency
Government dependency is a feature, not a bug, of welfare, dooming people by the millions into simultaneous poverty and voting for Democrats for life, and believe you me that last part is all liberals care about:
Related: Shocker: Government Gives Billions in Unnecessary Welfare Payments. Liberals are very generous with other people's money. Never their own. In that regard, why would anyone be shocked that they piss away other people's money in such a brazenly lossey goosey manner? It is quite natural since the money isn't yours. You basically drive it like a rented mule. Flashback: FDR on welfare 1935: "The lessons of history … show conclusively that continued dependence upon relief induces a spiritual and moral disintegration fundamentally destructive to the national fiber. To dole out relief in this way is to administer a narcotic, a subtle destroyer of the human spirit". The current crop of Democrats on the Hill think differently than that.
Related: Shocker: Government Gives Billions in Unnecessary Welfare Payments. Liberals are very generous with other people's money. Never their own. In that regard, why would anyone be shocked that they piss away other people's money in such a brazenly lossey goosey manner? It is quite natural since the money isn't yours. You basically drive it like a rented mule. Flashback: FDR on welfare 1935: "The lessons of history … show conclusively that continued dependence upon relief induces a spiritual and moral disintegration fundamentally destructive to the national fiber. To dole out relief in this way is to administer a narcotic, a subtle destroyer of the human spirit". The current crop of Democrats on the Hill think differently than that.
Shocker: Government Gives Billions in Unnecessary Welfare Payments
Liberals are very generous with other people's money. Never their own. In that regard, why would anyone be shocked that they piss away other people's money in such a brazenly lossey goosey manner? It is quite natural since the money isn't yours. You basically drive it like a rented mule:
