Category Archives: Poverty

by | July 26, 2012 · 3:38 am

The MORAL case for Free Enterprise

The Moral Case for Free Enterprise [7:57]

This excellent video would be a good choice for your liberal, Democrat-voting Christians, people who truly care about the poor, but have been suckered into believing that Obama’s socialism is more fair and better for the poor than Romney’s free enterprise.

Brooks wrote The Road to Freedom: How to Win the Fight for Free Enterprise (2012) and The Battle: How the Fight between Free Enterprise and Big Government Will Shape America’s Future (2010) which I have not read.

He also wrote one of my all-time favorite books, Who Really Cares: The Surprising Truth About Compassionate Conservatism (2007). This one cured me FOREVER of the Democrats’ lies about fairness and free enterprise.

Brooks used to be a typical liberal university professor. His own research forced him to change sides. In this video, he says, “We have to see that we’re not in an economic battle for the future of America. We’re in a moral battle.” ITA.

If you like this, you might also enjoy https://polination.wordpress.com/2012/07/25/fixing-the-economy/

H/t to Bluebird of Bitterness and Grunt of Montecristo.

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by | June 16, 2012 · 12:33 pm

Down the Road to Serfdom: Warnings from a British Friend

March 29, 2012 By Daniel Hannan, a Member of the European Parliament

http://www.heritage.org/research/lecture/2012/03/a-warning-from-a-british-friend

Brief excerpt:

If there is one thing that strikes me every time I visit the United States, it’s that most people have no idea of how fortunate they are. One of the reasons that people here are productive — and it now takes four Germans to put in the same man hours as three Americans over one year — is that the incentives are rigged toward success, toward productivity. If you penalize wealthy people in order to reward poor people, you will end up with fewer wealthy people and more poor people.

Abstract of entire article:

The United States was born out of a popular revolt against a distant and autocratic government, and its model has always been based around the maximum decentralization and democratization of power. Now that model is being abandoned.

The policies currently being pursued amount to a comprehensive program of Europeanization—European welfare, health care, taxes, carbon levies, unemployment rates, and foreign policy.

The community of free English-speaking democracies is the standing, permanent coalition of the willing, but it depends on America’s commitment and America’s keeping true to the Anglo–American common law heritage of freedom, parliamentary rule, and personal liberty without which America is made less exceptional, poorer and darker.

Read the rest @ http://www.heritage.org/research/lecture/2012/03/a-warning-from-a-british-friend

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by | November 23, 2011 · 9:53 am

I am not thankful. Are you?

On November 4, 2008, nearly 70 million Americans voted to put Barack Obama in charge of fixing the economy.

He’s had three years. Are you better off? I’m not.

Barack Obama promised to help the poor.

But under his leadership, 3.8 million more Americans slipped below the poverty line.

13.3 million more Americans now require food stamp assistance to put food on the table.

Obama promised to add 2.5 million jobs to the U.S. economy.

But under his leadership, the economy has lost 2.57 million jobs.

And the average time unemployed Americans have been unemployed has doubled.

Obama said Bush had hurt average Americans.

But under Obama’s leadership, the average American family’s annual income has decreased by more than $2,500 while their average health plan premium has increased by more than $2,300.

That’s a net loss of $5,000 a year in disposable income and those dollars we do have now buy a lot less than they did in 2008.

When Obama took office, inflation was at .03%; it’s now at 3.77%.

The price of gasoline has doubled and the cost of food and other staples has gone up, in some cases dramatically.

Meanwhile, our houses have lost value.

When Obama took office, the national debt stood at 10.6 trillion.

Obama had criticized Bush for adding to the national debt, but the truth is that it took decades of over-spending by both Democrats and Republicans to get it to that point.

So why, if he knew debt was bad, did Barack Obama oversee the addition of $4 trillion more in just three years?!

Barack Obama has already started asking us to give him four more years in office.

What I want to know is … why the hell should we?!

 

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by | November 6, 2011 · 1:55 pm

Dems choose “going green” over “helping poor”

By Chrissy the Hyphenated

My mom would’ve called this sinful. I’m inclined to agree.

http://news.webshots.com/photo/2217934670056011884NJbvjS

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