In yesterday’s pitch, the President reaffirmed his position that the makers should give more of their $$$ to the takers.
That’s one he can win, since there are increasing number of takers.
Robert Samuels points out in Newsweek:
We in America have created suicidal government; the threatened federal shutdown and stubborn budget deficits are but symptoms.
By suicidal, I mean that government has promised more than it can realistically deliver and, as a result, repeatedly disappoints by providing less than people expect or jeopardizing what they already have. But government can’t easily correct its excesses, because Americans depend on it for so much that any effort to change the status arouses a firestorm of opposition that virtually ensures defeat.
Government’s very expansion has brought it into disrepute, paralyzed politics and impeded it from acting in the national interest.
For example, the Census Bureau reports that in 2009 almost half (46.2 percent) of the 300 million Americans received at least one federal benefit:
- 46.5 million, Social Security;
- 42.6 million, Medicare;
- 42.4 million, Medicaid;
- 36.1 million, food stamps;
- 12.4 million, housing subsidies.
There are a lot of voters in the stack …
The Homa Files 
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