U.S. Slips into Government Dependency Under Obama ------ (Dr. Jerome R. Corsi, Ph.D.) - Under Barack Obama, the United States has slipped fast and dangerously into the Nanny State dependency the Democrats have encouraged by expanding the social welfare state to the point of bankruptcy. Consider food stamps. The U.S. Department of Agriculture has just announced that more than 100 million are currently participating in at least one of the 15 food programs offered by the agency, at a cost of $114 billion in fiscal year 2012, with a record 47 million participating in the Supplementary Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, commonly known as “food stamps.” Federal expenditures on the SNAP food stamp program have doubled from $40 billion in 2008 to a current level of $88.6 billion in fiscal year 2012. This means that 1 of every 3 Americans use some food program funded by the Agricultural Department, while 1 of every 6 are currently on the food stamps program. To make food stamps easy, the Agricultural Department now issues recipients what amounts to a debit card that can be swiped through supermarket checkout stands identically to a credit card, making food stamp funds easy to spend in a way that is not embarrassing because the credit card easily disguises the welfare aspect of the government hand-out. In another disturbing announcement, Americans have learned that temporary work has now become the main job provider in the nation, with Kelly Services, a temporary work provider, now the second-largest employer in America, right behind Wal-Mart. Part-time jobs are now at an all-time high, with 28 million Americans working part-time, compounding the problem that a record number of Americans are in temporary jobs. ObamaCare has compounded the problem of Obama’s failure to produce a job-creating economy, as an increasing number of employers, especially in the small business market, realize various costs and penalties under the Affordable Care Act can only be avoided by reducing or capping the number of full-time workers employed. Increasingly, as many pundits have noted, temporary jobs are becoming a permanent part of the U.S. job scene. Major corporations are turning to an army of paid contract workers and consultants, from computer IT specialists to legal counsel to accountants, and any other task or services that can be outsourced on a pay-for-work-done basis. Today nearly 17 million people are employed in positions with corporations that as temporary help, contract labor, or some other form of employment that is not defined as permanent, totaling about 12 percent of the labor force. What is happening in the American employment scene is that workers and families are coming to expect lower levels of take-home pay that is likely to be disrupted from time-to-time as workers relocate from one temporary or part-time job to another. As a result, we can expect the downward cycle of limited employment opportunity that will result in dependency on government benefits ranging form unemployment insurance, food stamps, and health care. Under Obama, we have become a poorer, more government dependent nation. We have to stop and ask whether this is what the Democrats and President Obama have planned all along, namely, that a government-dependent election that has learned to survive on the government social welfare state will vote often and always for the Democrats, for fear their government checks may cease to flow.
Posted on: Mon, 15 Jul 2013 09:56:42 +0000
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