AT: What if correctional facility prisoners throughout the country were allowed to vote for any candidate they wanted and there just so happened to be a candidate who ran on the promise that if elected all sentences would be commuted to time served? And by voting together these prisoners constituted a majority, are there any doubts as to who would win and what the results would be?
Well, there is no need to think in the hypothetical for the answer because the results of such a system are seen in most major liberal cities across the United States. And it’s all done legally by nonworking people who vote for Democrat candidates promising to overtax hardworking Americans to pay for the stuff they say is “free.” Ronald Reagan put it as direct as possible, “When you rob Peter to pay Paul, you can always count on Paul’s vote.” And Benjamin Franklin also warned against such practices when he said, “When the people find that they can vote themselves money that will herald the end of the republic.”
Because this system has been ongoing for decades, people accept it as business as usual when a Democrat is in office, yet outside the world of politics, people commonly refer to the practice as theft.
According to a December 2018 article in Lexington Law, “The total cost of poverty assistance programs in America can add up to a shocking $1 trillion a year when combining both federal and state level program budgets.” A sobering statistic found in a 2012 policy analysis report from the CATO Institute found that from 1965 to 2011 the total percentage of GDP spent on welfare programs had quadrupled from .83 percent to 4.4 percent of the total. The report went on to add, “The American welfare state is much larger than commonly believed. The federal government alone currently funds and operates 126 different welfare or anti-poverty programs, spending more than $668 billion per year.”
With the new wave of Democrat Socialists rising through the ranks of the Democrat party, promising free tuition and free healthcare, the welfare state will most certainly balloon and see a significant increase in expenditures inside an already unsustainable system.
The Democrat efforts to shrink America’s middle class through wealth redistribution is being joined with a plan to exploit the already broken immigration system. more here
I would rather have someone rob me at gunpoint than to vote for some worthless bastard politician to rob me by proxy. At least the former has some inkling that what they are doing is immoral.
JDHasty awesome post!!!
Gee isn’t that almost the same as state and federal workers voting for anyone who will give them more $TUFF from the Worker Peasants pockets?
@JDHasty, and with the robbing at gunpoint, you can choose to fight back, physically.
Govt has always been and always will be about forcibly taking property or liberty for the benefit of people who aren’t you. The longer-lasting ones give some of it back in ways that make them seem to be benefactors, but it’s always based on theft.
BTW, the accompanying image contains a quotation from Ronald Reagan. He did say that, and on multiple occasions. But the original is
Source: Everybody’s Political What’s What? (1944),
by George Bernard Shaw
$668 Billion per year on anti-poverty programs, at the same time we are allowing a million third-world, low-intellect people into the country who, along with their offspring, are guaranteed to be on “anti-poverty” programs for their entire lives. I love to be in America…everything’s free in America!
I will say this again. Regardless of whether you have
“paid into” a program (medicare, social security, veteran’s benefits) most of your life Peter must still be robbed from to pay Paul. So, how many of you are dependent upon these entitlements and how many of you are willing to give them up to allow freedom for others? Just because you were either duped in your earlier years of naivete or forced by your employer who in turn was forced by a corrupt government does that excuse it?