Stephen Moore Quotes

This is a classic statement from the Tea Party wing of the Republican Party. Here he not only criticizes the most successful and popular program in American History, but he describes it as a criminal fraud and then claims that Social Security is the biggest threat to our democracy—a bigger threat than Al Qaeda and terrorism, a greater threat than global warming, a greater threat than the housing bubble and the Great Recession. The Tea Party blindness to the effect of these gross exaggerated and obviously false claims is fascinating. He seems totally sincere and yet it is hard for voters to believe that he actually has faith in what he says—although perhaps faith is all he has.

Nixon’s view was very popular, except the reality of the welfare system was much more complicated than most people thought. A very large percentage of the adults on welfare were women with young children. There was no practical way for them to work unless there was some mechanism for caring for the children. Most of these women could only earn minimum wage which was not enough to cover the cost of child care. Providing child care would then cost more welfare money for this investment and politicians, even those hating the welfare system as it was, would not make this investment which would have dubious payoff. Training the women for better paying jobs and covering their child care in the process, works but the investment is very large and gives the government even more control of American life so there has never been a consensus for this. In other cases, women could get work but not having an automobile, they could not get to jobs in most of the United states. Further, requiring welfare recipients to work, collapsed when the economy was in recession. Many women just could not find jobs, and even when the government provided assistance, the state of the local economy determined whether or not workfare was practical.

A professional mature female actress spoke the words. The Majority of the Republicans voted against the Medicare law that had passed under Lyndon Johnson. They lost millions of votes over that for years. Then at the end of the 20th century, many Republicans tried to reduce or privatize Medicare which by then was second only to Social Security among all government programs. The Democrats then used many variants of this Schwartz ad to great effect.

It was not known whether he actually believes such an extreme statement, or he just made it to pander to the extreme right wing of the Republican Party who were a large part of his political base. In effect he was calling the Great Republican Presidents after WWII like Eisenhower a con artist. See {622864}. A Ponzi Scheme is an illegal investment scheme designed so that the early investors get paid by the later investors and the crook running it skims money off the top and has no intention whatso ever to pay off the later investors. It is named after a Bostom Crook who ran the scam in the early 20th century.

With entitlement programs, Congress and the Administration have very little control over the annual expenditures because once someone is legally entitled to a benefit, the government must pay it. It is not a matter of discretion but an obligation.

Both of these programs have been amongst the most popular programs in American History. Yet for Republican conservatives at the beginning of the 21st century, these were programs that they wanted to either terminate of alter in such severe manners that they would not be anything like the original programs. When these programs were passed by Congress, most Republicans were opposed to the legislation but enough were supportive to have bipartisan support. However, by 2000, most liberal Republicans had been driven out of the party, and it was the Democrats who kept the programs alive and in force despite the Republican assaults. The Democrats had public opinion on their side on these battles and even most registered Republicans opposed President George W. Bush’s major attempt to privatize Social Security.

some of the 1 percent Not all of the superrich in America are like this. Bill Gates and Warren Buffet, two of the richest Americans, for example, are supporters of these important programs for many citizens. However, the Koch Brothers, Senator Sanders best example, had $87 Billion and earned $12 Billion more that year. Yet they also made great efforts and spend large sums of money to take away the Social Security, Medicaid.