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April 18, 2011
The reparations will continue until that half of the populace that sucks at the trough is dead or too fat to waddle to the polls.
The electorate is not as it was when it finally sickened of Jimmy Carter in August 1980. Far more are on public assistance, unemployment, social security, food stamps, etc., or work for thousands of new state and federal bureaus.There are millions more illegal aliens that have become citizens since the late 1970s. And the voting rolls have expanded exponentially among "nontraditional" voters. Thus the political calculus about which pundits and talking-heads debate is not always what half the electorate worries about. The national debt, the annual deficit, the problems with Obamacare, the tax code -- all that matters very little. The key question for millions of voters in 2012 will be simply who ensures that my check arrives unchanged or augmented, and who either stops or reduces it.-- Works and Days » Patient Obama
Posted by Vanderleun at April 18, 2011 3:35 PM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.
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Today, I officially hate my government.
Posted by: Blastineau at April 18, 2011 5:13 PM
Some nice DrudgeKu tonight:
45% of households pay no income tax...
43% say tax level 'about right'...
Posted by: Cris at April 18, 2011 7:20 PM
"The key question for millions of voters in 2012 will be simply who ensures that my check arrives unchanged or augmented, and who either stops or reduces it."
If so, we are doomed.
Posted by: flyoverpilgrim at April 18, 2011 7:59 PM
Then Atlas Shrugs.
Posted by: Casca at April 19, 2011 7:24 AM
It will apparently come as a surprise that the very types of people who will take the trouble to vote themselves a check are not the types who will take on more trouble than that in keeping it.
Posted by: james wilson at April 20, 2011 9:40 AM
This redefines government cheese giveaways.
Posted by: Roger Drew Williams at April 20, 2011 10:42 PM
Any thoughts about this possibility?
http://www.amnation.com/vfr/archives/019168.html
Posted by: Jewel at April 22, 2011 12:33 AM
Never bite the hand that feeds you. Are rich white liberals just trying to appease the blacks with entitlements and token black presidents? And I thought they literally had white-guilt! True to liberalism, it's more accurate to call it black-appeasement, huh? That's worse than racist. That's enabling genocide. Democrats are shameless ass-lickers.
Posted by: RedCarolina at April 22, 2011 12:46 PM