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Jewish World Review May 30, 2014 / 1 Sivan, 5774 Curb your entitlementsBy Dave Weinbaum
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If you're a young person of bland color, AKA white and you engage in
political discussion with a black person or a guilt-plagued white, you may be
attacked during the worm-up. You're liable to be ordered to, "Check your privilege!"
Do not -- I REPEAT -- DO NOT RETREAT!
Man or woman up and tell 'em to, "Curb your entitlements!" This ain't, 1860, 1900,
nor the 1930s (except for the economy under Obama). This is 2014; with half
the taxpayers paying for what is now the other half not working. Thousands are
scamming the system-this at the behest of a party so low, they stooped to making
our HC system on a similar model to the VA's. One of the more popular jobs of
new college grads may be getting hired to sit on a death panel.
As Margaret Thatcher said, "The problem with Socialism is that you eventually run
out of other people's money." She knew entitlements would eventually bring pain
and chaos to all. There is no history of this kind of government ever succeeding. It's
been an international Ponzi scheme for thousands of years. Once people vote in
others just to line their pockets, while refusing to work, we will be toast.
A window of opportunity won't open itself
Clever politicians use this phenomenon to take advantage of the poor's plight. They
drive wedges into their minds that ignite hate and jealousy against those who are
achieving through capitalism. If they'd guide the poor to study what and how these
so-called one-percenters made their livings, they'd discover that many of them started
off poorer than they are. Instead of resentment, the future makers and shakers, many
of them minorities, discovered that this country is a success in search of a few breaks.
Of course, one must work toward a goal and keep his eyes open to advancement
and opportunity.
I recently discovered that until the 1950's my relatives, including my father, all lived
in a one-bedroom, one-bathroom apartment on the West Side of Chicago. There
were 10 of them, matriculating in and out as fortune would allow. They were
refugees from the murderous pogroms against Jews generated by the Cossacks
in-guess where-The Ukraine during the early 1900's.
Every one of them, including my dad, made a good living…eventually. One who is
alive at 97 did very well. He started working at the ripe old age of six.
It's been 50 years since the Great Society Bill was passed and signed into law
by LBJ. What small gains the poor have made, especially blacks, have caused
vast amounts of damage to a culture that was once proud and determined to kick
ass as equals. Here's what's happened:
Whatever benefits have been achieved by this "war" have been diminished by
its unintended consequences.
Yet, Democrats found a benefit to their failed Great Society. They discovered
political power in subsidizing the destruction of black babies and black souls-all
on taxpayer's back. With the blip in the minorities' slide to Hell when Bubba signed
off on welfare reform at the urging of a Republican Congress in the 90's, even
Republicans have laid low for fear of further castrating their minority vote.
Now with an Obama-Dem Congress explosion in debt caused by stealing from
one group of citizens to buy the votes of others via Obamacare, bailouts and
handouts, further destruction of an already shaky economy is eminent. The poor
and especially blacks have not been helped by ignoring welfare work requirements.
We are witnessing the festering of a frustrated culture - the American culture. Handouts have replaced jobs. Abortions have become birth control and
false-Messiah-worshipping in the form of Barack Obama has become a substitute
for religion.
Never point a finger when you can lend a hand
Is there not a leader in the black community who has the foresight of the words of
Martin Luther King? Is there any movement at all from the NAACP to fix black
souls instead of elections?
We know from history that unfettered and unearned gratuities are unsustainable.
It's only a matter of time for the money train to run off the rails. A reality fix is needed
or we are all lost.
Maybe that's the Democratic Party's concept.
But it wasn't always so.
Enough is enough! AMERICA: CURB YOUR ENTITLEMENTS!
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