June 15, 2013
Occupy Unmasked is a 2012 American documentary film directed by Stephen K. Bannon and produced by David Bossie, which is critical of the Occupy movement. The documentary was released in limited theaters on September 21, 2012, distributed by Mark Cuban’s Magnolia Pictures. Cuban stated “I don’t have any politics” and that his company released the documentary solely “because we believe there is an audience for it” before the 2012 U.S. Presidential election.
June 13, 2013
Take a guess. In a new Wall Street Journal/NBC news poll, the most popular response to the question asking voters what the prime cause of poverty was:
1 Lack of work ethic
2 Breakdown of families
3 Lack of good educational opportunities
4 Lack of job opportunities
Answer: None of these. In fact, the most popular answer was Too Much Welfare. Too much welfare got 24% of the vote, while A) received 10%, B) 13%, C) 13%, and D) 18%.
83% of voters said welfare recipients should have to work, and most Americans agreed that work, not government handouts, was the best route to escape poverty.
Posted in Entitlements, Poverty
June 12, 2013
The European Commission, somewhat similar to an executive branch, argues that the requirements for immigrants to obtain welfare in Britain violate EU “law” because they go beyond what is required from Britons. As such, European “authorities” — now responsible for more than three fourths of the “laws” governing formerly sovereign member states — recently announced that the bid to saddle taxpayers with more bills would have to be resolved in the self-styled “European Court of Justice.”
As national sovereignty increasingly becomes a thing of the past for most Europeans, the controversial European Union is taking the British government to court in an effort to force taxpayers to supply more welfare for immigrants in the United Kingdom. Analysts, however, say the move is likely to backfire, with fuel essentially being poured on the fire as escalating anti-EU fervor sweeps across Britain ahead of a promised public vote on secession.
After two years of “discussions” between London and the emerging Brussels-based super-state resulted in an impasse, so-called “eurocrats” still claim that British authorities are improperly denying welfare benefits to some immigrants. “Tens of thousands of EU nationals living legally in the U.K. have been refused access to benefits to which they are entitled,” alleged EU spokesman Jonathan Todd, citing “official figures” showing that British authorities had denied welfare to almost 30,000 immigrants between 2009 and 2001.
The U.K. government denies the allegations, with officials saying that they will continue enforcing the “right-to-reside” test before handing out public funds to foreigners. “We will not only fight this action but press ahead with plans to strengthen Britain’s benefits system to ensure it cannot be abused,” the government said in a statement cited in media reports, adding that the welfare requirements were “a vital and fair tool.” Proponents of the rule, which was put in place almost a decade ago by a Labor party-led government, say it is necessary to crack down on “benefit tourism.”
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Posted in Entitlements, Europe, Immigration, Law & Courts
The Gang of Eight (GOE) scamnesty bill would grant legalization to more than 30 million migrants – and the number could be far higher – over the next 10 years, who will then have further access to taxpayer-funded services, programs and handouts. Moreover, demographic electoral analysis clearly shows that virtually all these new “Americans” would vote for socialist politicians (read: liberal Democrats), just as they did in their native lands.
Young, handsome and Hispanic, Marco Rubio was once hailed as one of the new faces of the Republican Party. But now we learn that he actually brings two new faces to the GOP.
One that says one thing one moment and another that says a different thing at a different moment.
After all, while Rubio appeared in this deceptive ad touting the supposed conservative nature of his amnesty bill, The Examiner tells us the following:
In a Spanish-language interview Sunday with the network Univision, Sen. Marco Rubio, the leading Republican on the Gang of Eight comprehensive immigration reform group, made his strongest statement yet that legalization of the nation’s estimated 11 million illegal immigrants must happen before any new border security or internal enforcement measures are in place, and will in no way be conditional on any security requirements.
“Let’s be clear,” Rubio said. “Nobody is talking about preventing the legalization. The legalization is going to happen. That means the following will happen: First comes the legalization. Then come the measures to secure the border. And then comes the process of permanent residence.”
And then comes the death of the nation.
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June 4, 2013
Susan L. Anderson, wife of embattled former IRS Commissioner Douglas Shulman, was a supporter of, and active participant in, the Occupy Wall Street movement, attending and promoting Occupy DC in Oct. 2011.
In the fall of 2011, during the height of the global Occupy protests, Anderson tweeted out to her followers:
Jobs on Main Street, not on K-ching Wall Street!#takeback11 #ows #occupydemocracyyfrog.com/o0crsizj
— Susan Anderson (@slandersonwdc) October 5, 2011
At Larry Lessig teach-in @ #occupydc. Will intro him tonight on his new book on how big $ threatens our #republic @ GW Law #OWS
— Susan Anderson (@slandersonwdc) October 18, 2011
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Posted in Democrats/Progressives, Entitlements, Radicals
May 30, 2013
The largest improper pension payment was more than $37,000, and it went to prisoner convicted of sexually assaulting a minor.
While one inmate was locked up for more than a year for a drug offense, the unemployment benefits were coming in — all $39,000, and then some.
Another serving time for unlawful possession of a weapon started receiving unemployment only after spending three months in prison, and was paid more than $25,000 over a year.
And there was a sex offender — behind bars for assaulting a child — who collected more than $37,000 from the state’s public employee pension system even though the program bans payments to those imprisoned for crimes of “moral turpitude.”
These convicts are among at least 20,000 inmates in New Jersey’s jails and prisons who were improperly paid nearly $24 million in benefits by government programs over a two-year period, according to an audit released today by the state comptroller’s office.
“The numbers are significant,” Comptroller Matthew Boxer said in a telephone interview. “I think we were surprised by the magnitude of the numbers.”
The state is trying to get the money back but Boxer acknowledged that won’t be easy.
What happened, he said, is state officials who run programs ranging from unemployment insurance to food stamps did not check their lists of beneficiaries against the full lists of prisoners. While some may have ensured no one locked up in a state prison received benefits, they did not check the jails across New Jersey’s 21 counties, Boxer said.
“There are some agencies that weren’t checking any,” he said.
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Posted in Crime, Entitlements, Fraud
May 24, 2013
Logically, the Gang of Eight’s bill should not have survived the April 15 Boston Marathon bombing. That dramatically and conclusively demonstrated that the U.S. government has utterly failed at selecting, monitoring and assimilating immigrants (remember Dzokhar Tsarnaev became a U.S. citizen on Sept. 11, 2012), let alone keeping them off welfare.
Washington has (another) dirty secret: Nobody read, or is going to read, the Heritage Foundation’s report of the net fiscal impact of the Gang of Eight’s proposed illegal-immigrant amnesty.
(The report concluded the impact will be $6.3 trillion over 50 years – or, to put it another way, all by itself amnesty will bump up government spending by a percentage point or two of Gross Domestic Product every year).
It’s not the report’s fault. It’s beautifully written, logically compelling and marshals a lot of numbers with great skill. (I speak as a veteran of 40 years in financial journalism.)
And, of course, professional politicians do tend to be innumerate lawyers with ADD personalities, incapable of sitting still, congenitally committed to schmoozing rather than studying.
But the real reason the report isn’t being read: Everyone has already made up their minds.
In the case of the patriot opponents of amnesty, this is actually laudable. They have grasped the great truth enunciated by the late, great free-market economist Milton Friedman: “It’s just obvious that you can’t have free immigration and a welfare state.”
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Posted in Amnesty, Entitlements, Immigration, Peter Brimelow
May 23, 2013
Food stamp spending has doubled under the Obama Administration, and participation is at historic highs. Recruiters hold bingo games and other “parties” to try to get more people on the food stamp rolls.
Where do food stamps come from?
They come from taxpayers—certainly not from family farms. Yet the “farm” bill, a recurring subsidy-fest in Congress, is actually 80 percent food stamps and other government nutrition programs.
The food stamps sweeten the farm deal for lawmakers, who admit that the combination works for their political purposes. As Heritage experts Daren Bakst and Diane Katz explain:
The food stamp portion creates a reason for urban representatives to support farm subsidies, and for farm-state lawmakers to support food stamps.
Talk of de-politicizing agriculture programs and welfare policy is met with stiff resistance. For example, Senator Thad Cochran (R–MS), ranking Republican on the Senate Agriculture Committee, recently told the North American Agricultural Journalists group that food stamps should continue to be included in the farm bill “purely from a political perspective. It helps get the farm bill passed.”
Food stamps are there to help “get the farm bill passed.” And the relation of the rest of the farm bill to farming is also questionable. Bakst and Katz note that “Congress has expanded the farm bill over time into a costly compilation of disparate programs. Along with agriculture and food stamps, the legislation includes dozens of forestry, conservation, energy, and rural development programs.”
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Posted in Democrats/Progressives, Entitlements, Obama, Radicals
May 22, 2013
The state chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and the demonstrators are angry over cuts to social programs, education reforms, changes to voting laws and other issues championed by Republican lawmakers.
The fourth week of protests led by the North Carolina chapter of the NAACP has ended in the arrests of more than 50 people at the state legislature.
The arrest count and number of supporters Monday reached the highest yet for the group’s demonstrations against the policies of the General Assembly, which Republicans took control of after the 2010 elections. Crowds have grown each week, with about 150 people facing charges since the start of demonstrations.
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May 21, 2013
Virtual President Bill Whittle takes a question on entitlements at a Virtual Town Hall meeting in Ramona, CA. and explains how the answer to free stuff is BETTER STUFF.
Posted in Bill Whittle, Entitlements
Get off the Rubio bandwagon (Video)
Glenn continued, “listen to me. It is worse than universal health care. And in the coming days as we get closer, we will explain why it’s worse than universal health care. It is the death nail of the country. There’s no recovery from this one. None. No recovery."
Adam Carolla on Liberal Media Bias: You’re ‘Insane’ Not to Admit it Exists
Adam Carolla knows liberal media bias exists because he’s seen it up close and personal. So when he watches the mainstream press ignore President Barack Obama’s hypocrisy he simply chalks it up to more of the same.
Hollywood’s Hatred of American Culture
Find out how the negativity and self-loathing of modern Hollywood is just a small gear in the machine that brings down entire nations. What can we do about it? Well, we can walk right into the heart of Mordor and destroy the Ring of Power.
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