Category Archives: entitlement

Government cheese gone wild: Who’s in on the Act?

Food Stamp Trafficking: Who’s in on the Act? | Fox Business. Recently, a husband-and-wife duo from Waco, Texas plead guilty to charges of  food stamp abuse that allegedly scammed the government of $350,000 Magdalena and Jamal Akhter, who run a … Continue reading

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The War against the Young

The War against the Young – Victor Davis Hanson – National Review Online. Read the whole thing. Better yet, don’t. No reason for the younger generation to realize the screw job their getting. No need to wake up until I’ve … Continue reading

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Followup on the “No Jobs” post

Government Cheese (video) Give a man a free house and he’ll bust out the windows Put his family on food stamps, now he’s a big spender no food on the table and the bills ain’t paid ‘Cause he spent it … Continue reading

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Ann Althouse:”The message: Take whatever handouts you can get. Be a submissive, thankful little receiver. “

“A man say he blocked his 4-year-old daughter’s Make-A-Wish trip to Disney World…”

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Tough Love

High school teacher tells graduating students: you’re not special “Yes, you’ve been pampered, cosseted, doted upon, helmeted, bubble-wrapped,” McCullough said in his speech. “Yes, capable adults with other things to do have held you, kissed you, fed you, wiped your … Continue reading

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Michigan Lottery winner kicked off food stamp program.

Bummer for Amanda Clayton but a very small victory for tax payers. Of course she ONLY won the Michigan lottery and it’s $1 million prize (prior to taxes and slightly more that $500,000 after lump sum and taxes). The big issue is her sense of … Continue reading

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How do I qualify?

Becoming depending on government. Gotta love it. Lead the way progressives.

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Culture of Entitlement

Through the eyes of a Walmart cashier. …I’m not against temporary aid helping those who truly need it. What I saw at Wal-Mart, however, was not temporary aid. I witnessed generations of families all relying on the state to buy … Continue reading

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#OccupyFail: Beam me up

Some Occupy L.A. arrestees feel traumatized, might seek therapy Sometimes reality sucks. Deal with it.

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Occupy Denver turns violent

Wow… Can’t wait to hear about this in the local paper. Hopefully they will remind us how violent the Tea Party rallies have been.

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Want to fix American health care? The first step is to abolish Medicaid and replace it with a more rational system to help the truly needy and exclude the moochers and deadbeats.

Entitlement Nation. Cost to you, the taxpayer: About $4000.Cost to the deadbeat: $0. Cost of preganancy test kit?

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Locks superglued prior to protests of Governor Walker at local school

Pathetic. Calling these thugs “Poor losers” is doing a grave injustice to the phrase. I’m afraid we’re going to see a lot more of this type of action.

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The Barbarians Inside Britain’s Gates

Unbelievable. The rioters in the news last week had a thwarted sense of entitlement that has been assiduously cultivated by an alliance of intellectuals, governments and bureaucrats. “We’re fed up with being broke,” one rioter was reported as having said, … Continue reading

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Boulder wants government handout to provide free Wi-Fi on RTD busses

Gag me. If it’s such a great idea, you don’t need a $250,000 “grant”. What an entitlement mentality. Just feed at the teat of taxpayer money. The worst part is the citizens of Boulder pay an employee to figure out … Continue reading

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Higher Ed… oh my

As the semester continued, I slipped further into despair. How could it be that graduate students delivered such appallingly poor papers and presentations? They’d gotten undergraduate degrees; why couldn’t they write in sentences? Why were they devoid of originality, analytical … Continue reading

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Entitlement spending out of control

This is news? Must be to politicians, at least of the Democratic variety or they wouldn’t have come so close to passing Obamacare. Of course, they haven’t given up yet either.

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When healthcare is “free”

The High Cost of No Price Wow, way back in the 60’s individuals out of pocket for medical expenses was about 40% of the charges. It 2008 it was just below 12%. What the article fails to note is the … Continue reading

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Long term fiscal outlook

Economist Craig Newmark take a look at a recently released GAO report that examines the long term fiscal outlook of the United States. It makes for depressing, although not surprising reading. These fiscal challenges are driven by health care cost … Continue reading

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