The GOP is sort of right. We waste too much on entitlements, and engage in too much protectionism

[jpgray]

We provide welfare that encourages complacency, and, on the basis of birth, provide opportunities to those who don't merit such. Despite this, those so rewarded engage in divisive class warfare, and their moral standards are obscenely degraded.

Of course, I'm speaking of the wealthiest 1% here. I imagine the GOP is not, since they begrudge those most in need even the relative pittance of assistance currently provided in all the above areas, and say nothing about the costly advantages of the very wealthy at all. Funny how that works.

[ProfessorGAC]

1. Pretty Convenient For Them

You're bad if you're in need. You're good if you take even though you don't need. And, that all somehow seems ok to them. That's pretty damned convenient.
GAC

[Postman]

2. Yeah, if Welfare makes people lazy, why are you bankers standing their with your hands out?

[nomorenomore08]

3. Projection, diversion, blame-the-victim... It's all of the above really.

And it's not as if making the rich hate the poor is a difficult task. The real feat the GOP has managed is to make the *relatively* poor (e.g. blue-collar laborers) despise those even further down on the totem pole.

[mmonk]

4. LOL. Yep. The GOP welfare recipients.

[Wapsie B]

5. Those who whine about someone being on food stamps

have no problem giving a welfare check to a banker or CEO. Oh that's right it creates jobs. :eyes:

[JVS]

6. It's more than the top 1%.

There can be no democracy until this system and the capitalist classes are destroyed.

[Cleita]

7. What entitlements? They are just about gone thanks to conservatives.

If you are talking about Social Security and Medicare, these are programs old people have paid into all their lives so that they have some security in their old age when they are no longer able to work and when health insurance no longer wants to cover them. That's old age insurance not entitlements.

[guitar man]

11. I think the OP

is referring to corporate welfare, in which case I agree

[Cleita]

12. If it's corporate welfare, then I agree. n/t

[valerief]

8. Eat the rich. nt

[baldguy]

9. Whenever there's an economic downturn, it's ALWAYS the workers to take the hit

and have to suck it up. The execs still get their bonuses, their stock options & their perks. The investors might loose some stock value - but not anything they can't afford. The suppliers always get paid, and the customers always get served.

The workers get their benes & wages cut, they see their 401ks disappear and their jobs evaporate or get shipped overseas.

Never in a million years will you see the corporate oligarchs say, "Well, we're not going to have a dividend payout this year or have any executive bonuses. Our workers deserve a little consideration too."

[butterfly77]

10. I wonder why I never hear this...

when it comes to giving out TARP payments,money to banks,millionaires and billionares. How do they keep on bragging about how great we are when they have families living all over the streets all over this country. Do the republiCONS realize that the whole world is watching and they are connected to the internets too?

[damntexdem]

13. Hey, they feel entitled.

Time to take away their title.