Washington Times: Obama’s Moocher Culture

The liberal media went wild over a video of Mitt Romney saying people who pay no taxes and live off government handouts have no reason to vote for him. Left unsaid is that Barack Obama has been running on exactly that platform. When it comes to the culture of dependency, President Obama built that.

Mr. Obama views government as a bottomless well of free handouts. Every idea, every proposal, every promise Mr. Obama makes involves the government giving something to somebody. His urgent focus is to expand and strengthen government’s role in everyone’s daily life. This was illustrated in the Obama campaign slideshow “The Life of Julia,” a detailed roadmap for cradle-to-grave dependence on government. Every slide began with, “Under President Obama” — which the White House believes is the proper place for Americans.

Mr. Obama said he wanted to spread the wealth around and fundamentally transform America. Unfortunately, he has. There are more Americans in poverty now than when President Lyndon Johnson declared war on it in 1964. Mr. Obama is called the “food-stamp president” for good reason. A record 47 million Americans per month — almost one in six — are on food stamps, which is practically double the number from when Mr. Obama took office. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack posited that food stamps are an “economic stimulus” that actually creates wealth. “Every dollar of [food stamps] generates $1.84 in the economy in terms of economic activity,” he claimed in 2011.

The White House also believes in the miraculous effects of unemployment benefits. In 2011, White House spokesman Jay Carney said handouts to the jobless were critical to the economy because “every place that, that money is spent has added business and that creates growth and income for businesses that leads them to decisions about jobs, more hiring.” So unemployment creates jobs — such political doublespeak would make George Orwell blush.

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what do we expect with barrys wife being named moochie
nik

Vilsack must be crowning the government with Christ Consciousness ability to feed the masses out of $1.00 morphing into $1.84. In actuality according to the velocity of money study, each private dollar turns over 5 times to the public dollar spent. The government now is 2/3 transfer payment which are pretty much pure consumption, no growth there. Just down the gullet maw of the masses. Our dollar will collapse, probably a lot sooner than expencted.
- guest
  
  Once money is into the economy it becomes impossible to track because it keeps changing hands. Anyway I don’t see any xstian conservatives doing the loaves & fishes thing even though He said you could do even greater things (if you only believed) or wanted to. Nowhere in the Bible does it say that government should take care of citizens, then again, nowhere does it say that government shouldn’t
  “feed the hungry, clothe the naked, shelter the homeless…” etc. Do you think God minds when Uncle Sam does His will? When did this envy/begrudge your neighbor thing start turning over inside you?
guest

The TEA party said they are not hiring until Obama is gone, so who REALLY is responsible for absence of jobs and more people on food-stamps? If its the private sector that creates jobs, and you refuse to do it, then why blame Obama because he can’t walk on water? (Bunch of prigs.)