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‘A Nation of Moochers’: Is the ‘Take Care of Me’ Society ‘Wrecking the USA?’

I recently interviewed Milwaukee radio talk host Charles Sykes about his new book “A Nation of Moochers: America’s Addiction to Getting Something for Nothing.”

A Nation of Moochers: Is the Take Care of Me Society Wrecking the USA? | Charles Sykes

The folks over at The Fiscal Times have also talked to Sykes — here’s how they set up the conversation:

You’ve played by the rules. Worked hard to put yourself through school. You’ve gotten a decent job and you pay your taxes.

You’re faithfully paying down your mortgage and saving money in a 401(k) – all to secure your finances and your future. But now there are a lot more “takers” than “makers” in this country – and the impact is systemic and long-lasting.

A prevalent new “moocher culture” is changing the character of this nation – that’s the core message of A Nation of Moochers: America’s Addiction to Getting Something for Nothing, a new book by Charles J. Sykes, senior fellow at the Wisconsin Policy Research Institute and the author of six previous books.

“This has been the flash point in American politics for the last several years,” Sykes toldThe Fiscal Times in an interview this week. “In the wake of the Great Recession, we’ve shifted from a culture of celebrating and encouraging those who are productive and hardworking, to a culture where handouts, bailouts, freebies and entitlements dominate.

You start to wonder, Why am I paying the freight for those who have been reckless and irresponsible, whether it’s on Wall Street or in Washington or anywhere else in the community? I think we’re becoming a very different nation.”

You will want to read their interview here.

GBTV subscribers can see my in-depth video interview with Sykes as part of Friday’s show here.

For everyone else — here’s an excerpt!  Sykes is not a fan of governments giving tax incentives to big Hollywood movie production.  I ask him to explain:

 

 

 

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  • Fatunsassy
    Posted on January 31, 2012 at 12:23am

    In 2003, Hillary Clinton said: (about the Bush administration)
    “I am sick and tired of people who say that if you debate and you disagree with this administration somehow you’re not patriotic. We should stand up and say we are Americans and we have a right to debate and disagree with any administration.”

    SO, WHY are we called “Racist” when we disagree in any way with the Obama Administration???

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    • midwesthippie
      Posted on January 31, 2012 at 12:40am

      …it’s such a juvenile question to begin with…BLAZE!!! why are you wasting our time with this PAP!??!

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    • jb.kibs
      Posted on January 31, 2012 at 1:18am

      An economics professor at a local college made a statement that he had never failed a single student before, but had recently failed an entire class. That class had insisted that Obama’s socialism worked and that no one would be poor and no one would be rich, a great equalizer.
      The professor then said, “OK, we will have an experiment in this class on Obama’s plan”. All grades will be averaged and everyone will receive the same grade so no one will fail and no one will receive an A….
      After the first test, the grades were averaged and everyone got a B. The students who studied hard were upset and the students who studied little were happy. As the second test rolled around, the students who studied little had studied even less and the ones who studied hard decided they wanted a free ride too so they studied little.
      The second test average was a D! No one was happy. When the 3rd test rolled around, the average was an F. As the tests proceeded, the scores never increased as bickering, blame and name-calling all resulted in hard feelings and no one would study for the benefit of anyone else. To their great surprise, ALL FAILED and the professor told them that socialism would also ultimately fail because when the reward is great, the effort to succeed is great, but when government takes all the reward away, no one will try or want to succeed. It could not be any simpler than that.

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    • ChiefGeorge
      Posted on January 31, 2012 at 1:29am

      Got screwed in 2007 when home owners abandoned their new homes and left us holding the bag, got screwed again when the stock market collapsed in 2008 and yet again to this day with higher prices of everything. One more drop is all ith will take this time around and more makers will move to the takers column. Its a cascade effect we are watching but its in slow mo as its happening month to month year to year since 2007. Once the EU drops dead its over here at home.

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    • kconservative
      Posted on January 31, 2012 at 3:55am

      This funny Youtube video matches this video perfectly. Most Obama supporters are moochers and have no desire to better themselves. This video will crack you up.. I laughed so hard. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxetMVBFivg

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    • TomFerrari
      Posted on January 31, 2012 at 5:59am

      @db321…
      As a person of INDIAN decent… (I prefer “Indian” – not “native American”)
      I resent being called “dependent!”
      Were my ancestors treated wrong? HECK YEAH !
      Do I personally sit on my butt and whine that somebody treated somebody else wrong and the wronged person was related to me, so I don’t ever have to work or do anything but let others take care of me – ostensibly distant relatives of those who did the wrong-doing to people to whom I was related? (DEAD people, by the way)
      NOPE !
      I pull myself up by my own bootstraps (or moccasin straps if you prefer ! LOL)
      Government programs have indeed created an environment of dependency that exists EVEN TODAY in the day of “casino tribes.” Some tribes have no casinos and are recipient of government food, money, housing, schooling, social-services, health ‘clinics’, etc. and live in conditions you would not.
      They don’t know a way out.
      They get just enough from the socialists in government that they can survive. However, in order for them to improve themselves, they would have to go work 40 hours a week like the rest of us. That would give them a job (IF THEY COULD FIND ONE) that pays minimum wage. When you do the math, they would come out ahead by a hundred or two hundred a month in exchange for 160+ hours of work. That equates to ONE DOLLAR / HOUR.
      Now, tell me… WHAT IS THEIR MOTIVE to get OUT OF DEPENDENCY??

      TomFerrari  
    • Baddoggy
      Posted on January 31, 2012 at 6:03am

      Obama’s stash…
      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOZ-Etb0k0Q

      We are toast….

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    • Baddoggy
      Posted on January 31, 2012 at 6:20am

      The real question we should be asking is this…What the heck are we going to do when we cannot pay the “entitlement class” and they start burning the major cities to the ground? We will not even have money to put out the revolt becuse we wont even have money to pay the military. What then?

      It’s coming in Biblical porportions. And you sit back and updateour facebook page and fiddle with your new iPad instead of preparing for something like the world has never seen…

      Wake up America! The guy with the end of the world sign is beating you on the head! The next Civil War is here…Time to kill their movement with the FULL return to the Constitution!

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    • wolverine
      Posted on January 31, 2012 at 7:09am

      @midwesthippie
      Why don’t you go have aeronautical intercourse with a perambulating pastry and get the HE$$ out of here

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    • old white guy
      Posted on January 31, 2012 at 7:45am

      the moochers will do their share to wreck the country. from the bureaucrats that produce nothing right down to the welfare leeches, those who consume the wealth generated by others are parasites. there are those in society who need our care but they do not represent 50% of the population. the budgets of all levels of government could be balanced tomorrow by forcing everyone who is capable to get off their collective a–es and go to work.

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    • crackerone
      Posted on January 31, 2012 at 8:20am

      B O ‘s version of “trickle down.”

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    • smithclar3nc3
      Posted on January 31, 2012 at 8:22am

      cheifgeorge ,
      It‘s not a cascade effect it’s a slow and steady PROGRESSIVE effect. Where the he77 do all these Obama supporting idiotys think the progressives are progressing towards. An elitist authoritrian global government progressive are nothing more than fabian socialist sectarians.

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    • Cat
      Posted on January 31, 2012 at 8:24am

      Bd321 >

      You’re correct
      Do we get a check from the government every month for each of our kids and ourselves?
      Can we open a gambling casino any time we want, and now, anywhere we want outside of the reservation in a lot of states?
      I assure everyone, the owners and operators of those fancy powerboats being pulled by $200,000 rigs you see at the offshore races, are not Italians
      I know some American Indians who do very well, because they’re wise and intelligent, AND get a shot in the arm each month by the taxpayer, and I also know, many of them are just like a lot of other weak souls out there with their hand out
      I encourage anyone who hasn’t to walk inside one of their casinos and have a good look around, a REAL GOOD look
      But keep you wallets closed

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    • ashestoashes
      Posted on January 31, 2012 at 8:31am

      A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship. The average age of the world’s greatest civilizations has been 200 years.
      Great nations rise and fall. The people go from bondage to spiritual truth, to great courage, from courage to liberty, from liberty to abundance, from abundance to selfishness, from selfishness to complacency, from complacency to apathy, from apathy to dependence, from dependence back again to bondage.
      Aurthor unknown

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    • 4truth2all
      Posted on January 31, 2012 at 9:42am

      Our government is in the business of taking $10.00 and giving you $5.00 and making you feel like you are better off. It is demonic and leading to the one world government of complete control.

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    • GrayPanther
      Posted on January 31, 2012 at 10:14am

      That‘s right out of Saul Alinsky’s “Rules for Radicals”. Mis direction, divide, confront and isolate. Hillary is a prime example and a best friend of Soros and the teachings of Alinsky.

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    • GhostOfJefferson
      Posted on January 31, 2012 at 10:15am

      This is a very true article. It’s not even something that can be controversial, as the evidence sits in front of us every day, many times out “occupying” places demanding more and more of our lives be spent on their behalf.

      We don’t have to follow the socialist model of going into the moocher column though, when we get fed up. Rather, we form our own economy outside of their tax and regulatory schemes, and starve the Beast to death. Takes a lot of courage to do though, and how many arm chair warriors these days has actual real life courage to his convictions?

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    • Sirfoldallot
      Posted on January 31, 2012 at 10:29am

      Hey brother,,,,, make sure u r pay high TAX’s & make sure u r paying into SS, now do u know where the food bank is @ ?

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    • TenguScriptures
      Posted on January 31, 2012 at 1:15pm

      @ JBKIDS

      I‘m surprised the professor didn’t lose his job. The school’s are one of the main reasons our country is going this way -we, as teachers, are not allowed to let kids fail. Then again, I’m at a public high school… for now.

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    • Twowheels
      Posted on January 31, 2012 at 1:23pm

      Because it pi$$es you off and it works!

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    • kle57
      Posted on February 1, 2012 at 3:56am

      Yea!! Why did you make me watch this don’t I have free choice? Oh, Thats right I do I simply could have not watched this..But dont make me watch anything else….

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  • Collbuzz
    Posted on January 31, 2012 at 12:19am

    To the headline on this story: YES.

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    • ShyLow
      Posted on January 31, 2012 at 12:48am

      The Government is forcing people to become moochers…Through bailouts and subsidies they have inflated the price on housing,food,fuel,medicine,transportaition and pretty much everthing else…The onley way to solve the mooching problem is affordability…An entry level new car can be built in the U.S.A. for $10,000 or less…A new condo could be built for $12,000 or less…When these 2 things are done America will start to turn around

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    • SHOWMESTATEGUY
      Posted on January 31, 2012 at 2:47am

      Do liberals read past history, do liberals read current history, do liberals think about the future? Apparently not. Their idea of how things should be done caused the down fall of Rome. Their idea of how things should be done is killing Europe at this moment. Their idea of how things should be done will kill America.

      Past history proves that all Republics die. They die because the people demand more than the Republic can deliver. The worst thing about Republics is the politicians can buy peoples votes, right up until the Republic falls.

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    • Baddoggy
      Posted on January 31, 2012 at 6:05am

      Shylow…You really want to go with that?
      You have a choice! Don’t take Government money!

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    • ashestoashes
      Posted on January 31, 2012 at 8:41am

      It has all been planned..look at the 338.3 billion spent on illegals each year..Look at the 9 million Muslims received from 1965-2008 and the purported 11 thousand a month trickling in since. We are 15 trillion in and the Banks have an open chech for 16 trillion.. An ongoing war costing a trillion a year..Did you feel safer while our military was helping the Muslim Brotherhood take down our‘s and Israel’s dictator friends and replacing them with Muslim Brotherhood Sharia Law ones/? I know I did. Do you feel safer knowing that while our military is off policing the world that the ME are being moved into the US? Does anyone have a plan to get us out of debt? Does anyone have a plan for getting Communism and Islam out of our government? Do you think the Constitution might help?

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    • GhostOfJefferson
      Posted on January 31, 2012 at 10:46am

      @Shylow

      The debt they create against your wishes, is not your debt, you owe them nothing towards it.

      Neither are you forced into anything. All it would take to bring this entire Beast to its knees is to starve it and stop paying into this rigged game. By and large, we forge our own chains and place them on our own ankles and hands, and complain that we’re in chains the whole time.

      Remove the sanction of the victims and the house of socialist cards crumbles to dust. How do you think the Berlin wall fell after all? People just began ignoring “authorities” en mass, peacefully.

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    • Huguenot1732
      Posted on January 31, 2012 at 6:13pm

      BADDOGGY

      I would love to not take government money, however after almost 22 years of military service I sustained a brain injury and now I am unable to maintain a job. I have no choice but to accept government money to keep a roof over my head.

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  • smartass
    Posted on January 31, 2012 at 12:11am

    The biggest moochers in America are the too big to fail banks, the wall street gambling casino that extracts $trillions for investment outside the country, corporations that pay no taxes and export jobs overseas, healthcare insurance CEOs who make $millions on people’s misfortune and all the politicians who support this robbery of America. All else pales in comparison.

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    • booger71
      Posted on January 31, 2012 at 12:18am

      But it is the guy on the street moochers who have the voting block to keep these clowns in office.

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    • smartass
      Posted on January 31, 2012 at 1:16am

      When you haven‘t got a job and you can’t find one because there‘s a recession and millions of jobs were sent overseas and your family is hungery then you don’t have much choice but to mooch until things turn around.
      What would you do?

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    • booger71
      Posted on January 31, 2012 at 9:07am

      That’s funny, 2 of my kids have not had any trouble finding jobs in this recession. Jobs are out there for those willing to work. And that is not the point I made anyway. I said, why do these moochers keep returning the same clowns (libs) back to office time after time….so they can keep getting getting their goodies and that includes corporate moochers.

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    • GhostOfJefferson
      Posted on January 31, 2012 at 10:29am

      Oh spare me your propaganda, Mr. Lenin.

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    • smartass
      Posted on January 31, 2012 at 1:26pm

      It’s quite egotistical and presumptive for you to think you speak for Jefferson. Were you collaborators in a previous life?

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  • MatthewChapter24
    Posted on January 31, 2012 at 12:07am

    Once upon a time all those govt programs were meant for the truly needy. Now everyone who doesn’t have an iPhone thinks they are needy.

    Many people don’t know the value of hard work and our country has become a culture of coveting.

    Socialism doesn’t work…there is no motivation for people to work in that system and we have been slowly but surely building that kind of a system here in the US.
    Whatever happened to good old-fashioned consequences?

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    • ModerationIsBest
      Posted on January 31, 2012 at 12:43am

      Consumerism is America’s new favorite past time.

      As time has gone on, the line between a “need” and a “want” have been merged. Now when people say they “need” something what they really mean is they “want something so badly it seems like a need.”

      This is something that the average American MUST take responsibility for. We continue to vote in politicians who are fine being the leader of an economy that is based in consumerism and not production.

      Also look at how many fat people there are in this country. So many people don’t care how they look so they continue to stuff their mouths with unhealthy food and then claim ignorance or blame their habits on others. Or worse they flat out admit that they know they are being stupid by eating garbage and not working out, yet they care so little about themselves and their appearance that they continue on in their jolly merry way.

      Look at how much reality garbage is watched nowadays. It was bad enough when a decent chunk of reality shows were based around some form of talent but now we have crap like “dance moms” and “jersey shore” where people knowingly go on TV and act like a moron for fame. To make matters worse, we then have viewers who want to emulate these sickos and buy the products they peddle such as perfume, clothing and books.

      It is time we as Americans expect more from ourselves as a whole before we expect more out of our politicians. Sadly, the average American is stupid and enjoys being un

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    • ModerationIsBest
      Posted on January 31, 2012 at 1:12am

      “uninformed.”

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    • GhostOfJefferson
      Posted on January 31, 2012 at 10:48am

      @Moderation

      That’s quite a load of contempt and loathing you have for your fellow man. Presumably you are without sin, since you cast the stones so freely.

      Your attempt to collectivize guilt and absolve politicians has failed.

      And if you ever want to arm wrestle, give me a shout. :)

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    • ModerationIsBest
      Posted on January 31, 2012 at 1:18pm

      @GHOSTOFJEFFERSON

      I’m not trying to absolve politicians, throw them all out.

      What I‘m saying is politicians won’t get better if we don’t get better.

      I’m saying I wish people exhibited that personal responsibility we hear so much from people when it comes to their own lives.

      And to say I have contempt for them is silly because…..I want them to choose healthier and more educated lifestyles instead of being fine while they’re 50 lbs overweight, eating a twinkie while watching Jersey Shore.

      Is this everyone in the US? Of course not, but it’s a shocking number and continuing to grow.

      The problem with a lot of people is they blame the politicians, or the banks, or anybody else. Yes, they are partly to blame but so are we as a society.

      Yes the government and bank made it horribly easy to get a home, but the society on a whole were the ones who bought homes knowing they couldn’t afford it ESPECIALLY if something bad happened to the economy.

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    • Therightsofbilly
      Posted on January 31, 2012 at 3:14pm

      Hey MOD

      Glad to see you are branching out and spreading your wings.

      Now we can look forward to your views on all manner of topics.

      Not just Christian bashing anymore. Goody.

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  • Liberalismsamentaldisorder
    Posted on January 30, 2012 at 11:49pm

    ‘A Nation of Moochers’: Is the ‘Take Care of Me’ Society ‘Wrecking the USA?’

    Yes.

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  • abbygirl1994
    Posted on January 30, 2012 at 11:48pm

    Well considering half of America isn’t paying taxes and that includes quite a few rich who are behind in theirs, yes it is wrecking America! God help us!

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    • Callie369
      Posted on January 31, 2012 at 2:56am

      There are 312 million people in the U.S. There are 57 million on SS or SSI…..39 million are 65 or older……..13.76 million are disabled…..survivors (widow(er)s, parents, children) 4.24 million. Even if every single one of these people paid no FEDERAL TAXES, they would account for only 18.26% of the U.S. population. According to the government, 47% pay NO federal taxes. That means, the true figure for those too damn lazy to work is 28.74 MILLION.

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  • Conservative Punk
    Posted on January 30, 2012 at 11:42pm

    I’ve been calling them the “somebody wipe me” crowd for years.

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  • mr molotov cocktail
    Posted on January 30, 2012 at 11:42pm

    capitalism is socialism for the rich-
    rich people do not pull money out their rears-capitalism is just the super allocation- of resources to the few the rich!
    anyone who doesnt realize -it is just a nublet!

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_B-5d-gNwA&feature=youtu.be

    dont matter executive orders are in place!

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    • booger71
      Posted on January 31, 2012 at 12:20am

      If you really believe the drivel you are suggesting, then by all means go ahead and light your match

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    • Lord_Frostwind
      Posted on January 31, 2012 at 3:01am

      “Either deal with men in dollars, or deal with them in whips and bullets. When money ceases to be the tool of men, then men become the tools of men.”

      More horrors have been committed in pursuit of this imbecilic paradise in one century than the millennium that proceeded it. How many corpses do we have to crawl over before we realize that socialism, equality, fairness, is a lie? Life isn’t fair, people will always be wealthier in health, money, love, and whatever else.

      Capitalism may not be the fairy tale system people dream of, but it is the best humans can do. Everything else only ends in blood and horror, history attests to that.

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    • Baddoggy
      Posted on January 31, 2012 at 6:08am

      Mr Molotov…Huffopo called, they are missing an isiot. Go on back to your OWS meetings. I hope a cop bashes your head in as you protest.

      If we ever see a TRUE Capitalist society instead of one infused with your socialism, then we will se a Nation that is VERY prosperous. As long as we have teat suckers like you, the Nation will flounder…

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    • GhostOfJefferson
      Posted on January 31, 2012 at 10:57am

      @Cocktail

      Get thee to an economics class. Ignorance in others is no joy to observe, and I‘d hate to think that you’d continue to make such fundamental errors for lack of a proper education.

      Slainte

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    • squonk1pb
      Posted on January 31, 2012 at 11:37am

      Well said, Lord Frost

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  • REVerse
    Posted on January 30, 2012 at 11:41pm

    Yes.

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  • bjornskis
    Posted on January 30, 2012 at 11:40pm

    problem is when you kill off all the worker ants

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    • JohnofOregon
      Posted on January 31, 2012 at 1:52am

      damn straight!!!! i was raised to be responsible for everything i do. my wife and i have played by the rules all along. now i guess obama and congress are making a years worth of of mortgage payments on people in way over thier heads. i talked to a gal a couple of months ago who got chose for this. i asked what happens when the money runs out. she says “ill live there until someone kicks me out”, “i am not buying this place”. in 2011 she will recieve some $18,000 in payments. no strings. SHE HAS A JOB !!!! WTF!!!!!!! and i continue to play by the rules !!!! F——- all those idiots in DC cut the F—-G funding period.

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  • tmplarnite
    Posted on January 30, 2012 at 11:35pm

    We have four major moocher groups Black single women with multiple welfare brats, Illegal hispanics with multiple welfare brats, Muslim on the mooch with many brats and or course the white single mooches on welfare with multiple welfare brats. the blacks are 85% unmarried mooches the hispanics are 95% mooches, the muslims are 80% mooches and the whites are 35% mooches…All of these welfare mooches are going to vote for the one who will “steal and give” them the most stolen loot from the working population…$15 TRILLION in debt with $100 TRILLION in unfunded mandates with nearly 100% GDP payment to the chinese and others for the borrowed monies earned by this country….NOW…HOW DO “YOU” THINK THIS IS GOING TO END…AYE!!!! VERY, VERY BADLY…and SOON…THAT’S HOW!!!!!

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  • garyM
    Posted on January 30, 2012 at 11:27pm

    From 1973 through 2008, nearly 50 million legal abortions occurred
    14,748 murders in America in 2010
    84,767 Forcible rapes!
    367,832 robberies in America in 2010
    778,901 aggravated assaults in America in 2010
    Facts on Induced Abortion in the United States
    August 2011
    INCIDENCE OF ABORTION
    • Nearly half of pregnancies among American women are unintended, and about four in 10 of these are terminated by abortion.[1] Twenty-two percent of all pregnancies (excluding miscarriages) end in abortion.[2]

    • Forty percent of pregnancies among white women, 67% among blacks and 53% among Hispanics are unintended.[1] In 2008, 1.21 million abortions were performed, down from 1.31 million in 2000. However, between 2005 and 2008, the long-term decline in abortions stalled. From 1973 through 2008, nearly 50 million legal abortions occurred.[2]

    Does anyone have the stats on Iraq and Afghanistan?
    How come we aren’t hearing stop the war in America from the liberals on these stats?
    Do you see the BS yet?

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    • USAMEDIC3008
      Posted on January 30, 2012 at 11:33pm

      PROGRESSIVES got to loveum B.S………

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    • JohnofOregon
      Posted on January 31, 2012 at 2:00am

      @garym

      i like the cut of your jib. democrats have now passed the nazis in the number of paople “purged” by the government. they passed pol pot. now they are racing to victory to surpass stalin.

      9 out of 10 republicans vote yes to finance this. democrats freely say they like to kill kids. republicans verbally oposse this in general but vote to finance killing babies.

      who is worse? the evil politician or the politician that decieves to commit evil.

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    • EchoHawk
      Posted on January 31, 2012 at 1:05pm

      Are you saying mothers are committing infanticide on conservatives, I thought only liberals got abortions? Hell if they‘re only aborting conservatives I’ll make a donation to the nearest clinic.

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  • Detroit paperboy
    Posted on January 30, 2012 at 11:18pm

    From eagles to pidgeons in one generation……….. How sad !

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    • GhostOfJefferson
      Posted on January 31, 2012 at 10:51am

      You are empowered to speak only for yourself, friend. There is no collective guilt, and no grand “we” when talking about individual values, character, honesty and integrity. Never has been.

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  • MCDAVE
    Posted on January 30, 2012 at 11:14pm

    Its almost over, everyone is going to pay..We are bankrupt and our money will soon be worthless..Good job Barry in 4yrs you have destroyed the greatest nation on earth

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    • mikem1969
      Posted on January 30, 2012 at 11:21pm

      The libs and progressives have had this in the works for decades. Their plan was first to get blacks on welfare and get them addicted so they had a voter base that would never go away. Then they fed on the hate and class warefare to get to the point we are at now. Even if WE THE PEOPLE put a boot to the governments ass, it will take a century or more for the US to get back to what she should be. Mark my words on this, when the libs know they are going to lose, they will bring war on us all.

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    • CatB
      Posted on January 30, 2012 at 11:33pm

      I agree .. this was decades in the making .. and it will take a long time to right the wrong .. we certainly can’t do it in one or two election cycles .. we must be as patient as those who seek to destroy us .. but KEEP FIGHTING!

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    • mr molotov cocktail
      Posted on January 31, 2012 at 3:40am

      mike = absolute racist
      the majority of people who get welfare are white rural idiots like you who think blacks get them

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    • rambosharley
      Posted on January 31, 2012 at 6:18am

      Sadly, that was his intention!

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  • Steelhead
    Posted on January 30, 2012 at 11:14pm

    pass Obama care and make all the freeloaders pay for their own health care.

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    • Psychosis
      Posted on January 30, 2012 at 11:36pm

      hey, look, another dunderhead that cant read

      else he wouldnt have made the idiotic statement about obama care

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    • Steelhead
      Posted on January 30, 2012 at 11:48pm

      psycho – what , so you want to keep paying for the freeloaders using the emergency rooms and that don’t have insurance? if you keep Obamacare everyone has to pay.- no more free rides

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    • 13th Imam
      Posted on January 31, 2012 at 12:11am

      The DEMOCRAT PARTY BASE, Freeloader class will NEVER pay for anything, They NEVER do. The Takers, take,, thats all they know.

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    • Steelhead
      Posted on January 31, 2012 at 12:28am

      iman- if you do not like paying for the freeloaders you should be for Obama care, doh

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    • Inlightofthings
      Posted on January 31, 2012 at 12:10pm

      Steelhead:
      You seem to lack the intellectual capacity to understand the dynamics of the Healthcare act. I’m thankful you have but one vote but trust you are not of the 30% +/- that choose to exercise the right.

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  • Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
    Posted on January 30, 2012 at 11:12pm

    I love how when salesman try and “Give” me something for free, I always tell them, “No Thank you, find someone who needs It” They are always astonished that someone won’t jump at something free. If I want or need something, I will go buy it, or earn it. Except for Joseph A Bank, I will always take a free suit.

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  • rodtuck
    Posted on January 30, 2012 at 11:12pm

    We need to stop being spectators and become players or nothing is going to change.

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  • cmark
    Posted on January 30, 2012 at 11:12pm

    The new American dream is a food stamp card, section 8 housing, a free cell phone, utility subsidies, and a bad attitude toward the people who provide it all.

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  • TheObamanation
    Posted on January 30, 2012 at 11:09pm

    Once Obama is gone … the country will get back to work again.

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    • paleoman
      Posted on January 31, 2012 at 9:12am

      Some have never stopped working but this country has been divided again, the bitter moochers will cry RACIST at anything and everything after the 0 is gone.

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  • Endstatism
    Posted on January 30, 2012 at 11:08pm

    We already have 40% who will vote Democrat no matter what because they are addicted and hooked on entitlements. Obama is doing everything he can to get a majority dependent on government so that the Democrats will retain power forever.

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    • Detroit paperboy
      Posted on January 30, 2012 at 11:21pm

      And the parasites are killing the host…..

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    • Stoic one
      Posted on January 30, 2012 at 11:29pm

      You are mistaken. I am “dependent” – I am collecting unemployment. I will no to obama. I despise the potus ‘s policies. My job disappeared because of the health care law. whichever of the four get in will be better than what is in the white house now. then hopefully later we can more closely follow the constitution.

      I believe there are “many” like me that dislike the current administration for similar reasons.

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    • CatB
      Posted on January 30, 2012 at 11:35pm

      @STOIC ONE .. you are NOT one of those who are addicted .. you are a casualty of war .. hopefully we will recover and you will get back to the real “American Dream”.

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    • Liberalismsamentaldisorder
      Posted on January 30, 2012 at 11:52pm

      If it were only 40% we’d still have a chance, sadly it feels we’re well over that 50% threshold.

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  • The Third Archon
    Posted on January 30, 2012 at 11:08pm

    “This has been the flash point in American politics for the last several years,” Sykes toldThe Fiscal Times in an interview this week. “In the wake of the Great Recession, we’ve shifted from a culture of celebrating and encouraging those who are productive and hardworking, to a culture where handouts, bailouts, freebies and entitlements dominate.”
    How can that culture [of entitlement] be the CAUSE of the economic weakness of America if it we supposedly shifted to this supposed culture as the dominant one “in the wake of the Great Recession”? How can something be CAUSED by that which you are arguing it PREDICATED??

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    • barber2
      Posted on January 30, 2012 at 11:20pm

      How ?? Check into the Democrats’ Affordable Housing Act ! And get ready for the chaos they can bring with the Affordable Care Act ( aka Obama Care ). WAKE UP. But have a feeling you are way too brainwashed….

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  • broker0101
    Posted on January 30, 2012 at 11:07pm

    The answer to the Title question is: “No.” It already HAS wrecked America.

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  • mingfurecon
    Posted on January 30, 2012 at 11:06pm

    Freeloaders and slackers. Bring back the draft and teach young people discipline and the benefit of hard work. Look at their parents. We are about to get our collective butts kicked by the Chinese, Russians, …etc. The list goes on. When the traitor in chief leads the charge to become dependent on handouts, we are doomed

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    • GhostOfJefferson
      Posted on January 31, 2012 at 10:54am

      The answer to a socialist entitlement mentality is not forced servitude. Both mentalities are wholly un American.

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  • LeadNotFollow
    Posted on January 30, 2012 at 11:05pm

    …
    The mooching foreigners and the womb to tomb Welfare bunch, truly are destroying America.

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  • restorehope
    Posted on January 30, 2012 at 11:03pm

    There is a danger of becoming a ‘moocher’ society, but I doubt if it will ever happen. The majority of Americans understand the importance of relying on yourself to get through life. You cannot depend on the government, a truism that is becoming more and more obvious with all these failing progressive entitlement programs. Eventually, the people will tire of supporting all the freeloaders and vote those who do so out of office.

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    • angelcat
      Posted on January 30, 2012 at 11:12pm

      The scary thing is that we are growing nearer and nearer to the point where the majority of Americans are already moochers or aspire to be – and are encouraged to do so by the Democrats and their classwarfare and promises of more and more free stuff.

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    • Psychosis
      Posted on January 30, 2012 at 11:39pm

      47% how long do you think it will take for that number to gain 4 points ??????

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    • hempstead1944
      Posted on January 31, 2012 at 8:06am

      My guess is that you are over 60? Me too and people have changed in this country…..not for the good.

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