You Bought The Phone

Sam knows several impoverished folks in the Greeley area that are stuggling with the economy much like the middle class.  However, he has noticed they seem to have the same amenities as the others.  True, they may live in subsidized housing, pay no taxes, and have food and energy assistance.  But they also have flat-screen tv's, and nearly all of them have cell phones (including many of their pre-teen children).  Where did all of this come from?  The truth is that you probably paid for all of it.

Check out SafeLink Wireless (link here).  They are a government-run organization that gives cell phones to the "poor" and pays for them with your tax dollars.  This is only one of many such programs that take the money from you and your family and give it to others they deem to be deserving of your money.  If your family can't afford a cell phone, that's just tough.  You make too much already.  Are you on a fixed income and retired?  Who cares?  Obama wants to redistribute your wealth.

These are the programs that can be weeded out of government, and quickly.  Helping the needy always works best in the private sector when zero tax dollars are provided.  Until the government gets out of the business of taking your money to make charitable contributions, they will do nothing except create poor, dependent voters.  And they will vote to the left every time.

Comments

[Bobby J.]

Powerball,

There is NO workable form of wealth redistribution.

http://www.amazon.com/5000-Year-Leap-Original-Authorized/dp/0880801484

[Dennis]

Powerball,

I did not misunderstand your post, but I do think I misled you with mine. Mine was actually two parts. I should have made two posts. I agreed with your post, and commented that we no longer have a Representative Republic.

[Powerball]

Dennis,
You must have misunderstood my post.
The point was that the whole of the people of America, or any other country, could never conform to life in a monastery. Besides that, the leaders of such a monastery would need to act as an example and that is the biggest problem. Our leaders all want to be kings!
My largest complaint with the whole situation is the number of everyday Americans who are falling for the scam. I'm surrounded by them; friends, neighbors, relatives. They all have a gimmick to get their share of the freebie-pie. I can envision myself being the last one that's suppose to support all these laggards. They are selling me down river, but don't see they're doing it to themselves and their kids too.
I hate them for that. I hope they all die with regret on their lips and guilt in their eyes. I hate them!

Reread my post Dennis. Don't know what is there that confused you.

[Dennis]

Powerball,

How?

We are no longer a Representative Republic.

Why didn't the government provide my family with a micro-wave oven when I was growing up? We actually had to cook our meals on a stove. Our entire family had to sit down and eat at the dinner table at the same time, if we wanted a hot meal. I MUST have been underprivileged.

How unfair! Does the government owe me for this social discrepancy?

[Powerball]

The only workable form of wealth redistribution, "from each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs", requirers purity of heart dedicated to a comman means for survival, such as in a monastery away from any outside form of competition.

There is no monastery in the world that operates under a mandate of "divide and conquer", using terms like "I", "We" or, "The enemy". That would be self defeating and does not define redistribution at all. Those tactics are reserved for generals and governments to enslave. And by wordsmiths like Obamanation.

How can a man who claims and is said to be scholarly in American law, ascending to the presidency of the USA, taking an oath to defend all Americans not just a few be so confused?

This you must ask yourself or have some claim to speciality. Dependancy is not a high calling.