This image is taken from the 1934 Chicago Tribune cartoon ‘Planned Economy or Planned Destruction?’. It focuses on the character of Leon Trotsky, who is laying out a series of policy goals for the United States. The Chicago Tribute suggested in its latest reprint of this cartoon that we take a look at this cartoon and see if it rings true in today’s political and economic climate. Whereas others have focused on simply analyzing the larger cartoon to identify all the characters in it (for the best analysis see this post), today I am going to attempt to see if this cartoon [...]
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Food Stamp Growth Outstrips Net Jobs Growth by 75X’s
This is Obama’s America, where food stamps grow at 75x’s the rate of jobs. Take a look at this graphic, via The Weekly Standard… Of course, we can continue on this track, or even grow at a faster rate. All we have to do is re-elect Barak Obama. Related posts: Nanny State Alert: NY City Wants to Ban Soda for Food Stamp Recipients Rewarding Dependency? Oregon gets bonus money for signing more people up for food stamps A Simple Graph on Jobs Mining the Numbers: BLS Data Shows Obama Has Destroyed 500,000 Jobs, Bush Created 9,000,000?? Sneak Preview of Obama’s Thousand [...]
Rewarding Dependency? Oregon gets bonus money for signing more people up for food stamps
It has often been a dual claim from Conservatives that government assistance encourages dependency, and that this dependency is a desired outcome. Considering that any efforts to reform welfare are resisted by the left, and that these programs did indeed foster dependency, I think we can safely state that the said dependency is not a flaw, but a feature. After all, why else would they not stop a program in the face of overwhelming evidence of it’s failures? Also, when large numbers of people are dependent on government assistance, why would they vote against their own benefits? In a real [...]
Nanny State Alert: NY City Wants to Ban Soda for Food Stamp Recipients
It’s been said many times that government assistance comes with strings attached-that when you let the government do something for you, you cede control to them. That has been accelerating under our newest set of would-be “progressive” overlords, and here is the latest example. Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg sought federal permission on Wednesday to bar New York City’s 1.7 million recipients of food stamps from using them to buy soda or other sugared drinks. Scoff if you will, but if they can tell people that they can’t buy soda, what can’t they tell people? So Obama voters, how ya likin [...]
Evidence of Democratic Success! Record Number Enroll in Government Anti-poverty Programs!
One measure of success for Democrats is the number of people that they have helped save from starvation and poverty. It is a worthy measure of whether a policy is successful or not, and Obama, Peters, and all the other Democrats often campaign about how hard they have worked to expand the ‘safety net’ and ‘feed the starving masses.’ In their speeches they talk about how they are setting a goal for themselves of getting as many people who need help into the right government programs. And on their watch, under the Democratic Congress and a Democratic President, they have been successful [...]
