Thread: Only hard-working Americans need apply

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Only hard-working Americans need apply
Jul 8, 2011 10:16 EDT


What does the Tea Party want? As the debt ceiling debate rages in Washington, that should be the central question in U.S. political discourse. After all, it is the rise of the Tea Party that revitalized the Republican Party in 2009 and gave it the muscle to deliver a “shellackingâ€

Sounds right to me.

I am all for helping people who are having a hard time but there should be a time limit if you are an able body person.

President Clinton initiated a program called "A Ticket To Work" so every welfare recipient must sign up and be actively looking for a job or going to school to learn a trade. Too bad it has not been a priority of neither Bush nor Obama to continue this great program.

As for SS recipients: If the money they have paid into the system had been invested instead of a used as Gov. piggy bank SS would not be in trouble.

What I learned from this article is that the Tea Party membership (mostly) come from a unique genration. It is the baby boom generation that had unprecedented opportunity for their prosperity to reflect their productivity. We have not been that nation for over three decades, and it has little to do with laziness and entitlement (baby boomers were born into very good situations). It has to do with globalism, the destruction of our manufacturing industry -- and along with it, the middle class. Working hard no longer means a living wage any more -- as it did for the Tea Partiers in their unique and very quality situation they found themselves in when they young. Its hard for them to understand why people just don't go work hard to make money. The reality is that plenty of people work very hard barely to survive. That is the way it was before they arrived, and that is the way it is now that they are reaching their silver years. They just don't understand because the nation and the world was pretty much an historic anomally when they were looking for work.

"Entitlements" for todays generation were actually set by the Tea Party generation. Today's youth wants to remain middle class by working like their parents had, but it is not that simple in today's world (because of globalism/ illegal immigration/outsourcing).........enter social welfare programs to act as a pressure valvle for the volatile situation (which threatens to tear down the system itself) -- elites use it as a way of quelling public backlash against a fundamentally unsound system....all the while blaming welfare itself for the problem, and thereby dividing the populace. Who is really benefiting from all of this? People living in a slum, or people living in a mansion?