Big crowd, high spirits for 2nd Obama swearing-in
January 21, 2013 at 4:48 am in The Daily Republic
WASHINGTON (AP) Declaring “our work begins today”, President Barack Obama vowed to “finish what we started” four years ago as hundreds of thousands of inauguration-goers gathered on the historic National Mall in anticipation of his oath-taking for a second term.
So Obama has his boot on the throat of the nation and wants to finish us.
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Relax smartimus there is a plan here. In order to rebuild a new and better America, the old one has to be completely destroyed. We’re only in the first phase.
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Why all the hoopolla for someone who was re-elected? Total waste of time and money IMO …
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I think it’s wonderful. It gives people a chance to be together and celebrate our democracy. You could say the same thing about birthday parties. Had one last year, don’t need to do the same thing this year….
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Supposedly there was about a million or so in Washington D. C. for the inauguration. Fourteen of them had to take time off from work.
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the rest were the welfare cases and illegal immigrants
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Recently the Wall Street Journal ran an article on the state of entitlements in the United States. 49% of this country now lives in a home receiving one or more government transfer benefits. That is an increase of twenty percentage points since the early 1980s and, contrary to President Obama’s campaign assertion, only 1/10th of that increase is attributable to increases in old age pensions and health-care for seniors. 18% of all person income in this country is now attributable to government transfers. Social-welfare programs now account for $2.3 trillion annually which amounts to $7,400 per American woman, man and child. In 1960 social welfare-programs accounted for 1/3 of the federal budget and have now grown to 2/3 of the federal budget; that is twice as much as the Department of defense, the Justice Department and everything else the Federal government does combined. Not coincidentally the number of Americans opting out of work has steadily increased, even when factoring in the recession. For example, there are now 8.8 million people receiving Social Security disability payments, almost three times the number who received those benefits in 1990. There are now only 17 people working for every person receiving Social Security disability; that is just disability payments, not old-age benefits. These are only the Social Security disability numbers and that the total number of people receiving some form of federal disability benefits is 12.4 million. I am a firm supporter of the federal government providing social insurance programs to address genuine need, but these programs have morphed in to income redistribution programs the expense of which is greatly exceeding the payroll contributions that are intended to support the programs.
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