Well....I am a helluva lot better off than I was in December of 2008.....as are millions upon millions of others.....
Obamanomics: 173K New Food Stamp Recipients Vs. 96K New Jobs… The way Obama looks at it is every new food stamp recipient is a new vote for the Democrats. Via Breitbart’s John Nolte: It’s like a corrupt media ritual. The moment a Republican enters the Oval Office, America’s homeless are suddenly discovered, dragged before news cameras, and used as props to prove how heartless the current administration is. But as soon as a Democrat assumes office, the homeless suddenly disappear; presumably to a place with chocolate rivers and peppermint trees that only Democrat presidents are able to magically manifest as soon as the oath of office is complete. The media’s been even worse with Barack Obama. Not only have the homeless vanished from news coverage, but so have America’s poor. But as NBC’s David Gregory made clear, if you even try to bring up the record number of food stamp recipients Barack Obama’s failed policies have created, you’ll be labeled a racist. [...] What is a cold, hard fact, though, is that in the last accounting available to us (May), America’s food stamp rolls increased by 173,000. In the last jobs numbers available to us (August), only 96,000 new jobs were created.
I'm certainly not any better off than I was in 2008. In fact, I am far worse. I just don't air dirty laundry, but I'll say this.... What I see in terms of job search, job growth, food stamp, welfare exploitation and living in a state in which unemployment pays $200 a week has just enraged me against both parties. However, what I see coming from the left is just awful. It's cancerous. It's fostering and perpetuating a society of people entirely dependent upon the government for everything. A great many of people I encounter while on the job hunt are simply 'working the system' and the system itself has become this mess of bureaucracies that actually perpetuate themselves by keeping people professionally unemployed, or at best, constantly shuffling around temporary employment until they can get back onto the system. It's sickening.
Bingo.....across several critical dimensions Corey. First, the dangers of fostering a dependent society - an exact and true opposite of the society that built the world's greatest nation-state. One in which the founding core values of accountability and self-determination were at the forefront of our success. Second, the object of the bureaucracy is to perpetuate itself. The object of the bureaucrat is to enlarge the bureaucracy to enable it to do more and better things.....the end result? A bloated central government bleeding resources from the private sector, the only place where economic growth and job creation occurs.....the fewer the resources at their disposal, the lower is the growth and the lower is the growth, the lower is the job creation rate. The above elements are at the very core of the lib/dem/socialist ideal it doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out the ending.....