'Croc in
Enclosed Tank
for a Swim'
Crocodile
'Chateau'
in Louisiana, 2002.
Many welfare recipients, new legal and illegal immigrants, and wage earners demand 'McMansions' and expensive housing. This social welfare movement appears synchronized with local politiican and banker deals to bulldoze old neighborhoods with truly affordable, 'cheap', housing and rebuild to increase local property value, projected property tax revenues, and so their own wages and salaries.
The US financial sector appears to be loosing to '3rd World' pressures and problems. In the US too there is overpopulation or population not sustainable by the local or domestic economy, unemployment/underemployment, actual or cultural illiteracy, contaminated food and water, hyperinflation, greedy authoritarian politicians and aggressive police, not unlike socialist/communist '3rd World' army-installed dictators, who live in mansions and eat big while many or most of their population is hungry and homeless.
The US is different because many of our current social problems have been created. Uncontrolled immigration, first allowed in the 1960s by Democrat Party President Lyndon B. Johnson after the assassination of John F. Kennedy, brought a large number of poor people to America, an ironic turn of events during LBJ's 'War on Poverty'. Recall that LBJ was from Texas, on the US/Mexican border.
Subsequently, there was growth of social welfare populations demanding programs and politician-proponents demanding funding for such programs. Both have been 'grown' by the Clinton Administration series of 'redistribution of wealth' lawsuits and settlements through ethnic and black race-based initiatives and reduced- or no-tax benefits to Clinton's 'dual citizenship' supporters. These policies have increased social, economic, and budgetary problems in the US.
Many politicians seem to believe that by increasing the budget, they increase their salaries, seen as commissions on budgetary amounts. It is a type of convoluted thinking in which the politicians envision themselves as bankers/lenders seeking increased interest profit by increasing principal with increased federal appropriations.
Welfare, special interest, developmental/mentally retarded & emotionally disturbed, alcoholic, drug abusing, and mentally ill populations and advocates have been permitted to attack the 'normal' segment of society. Such 'special interest' and 'special needs' groups have demanded too many benefits at too high a cost, including 'cash' benefits.
Formerly welfare recipients lived in free 1-, 2-, and 3-bedroom apartments in welfare apartment buildings ('the projects'), ate for free on food stamps, received free medcal and dental care, free public education through elementary school and high school, and other free social welfare assistance.
In New York City in 1994, average welfare benefits were worth about $34,0000 per year for welfare mothers with children. Social welfare demands spiralled into demands to live in 'better' working class and middle-class neighorhoods. Currently in places like Fairfax County, Virginia, now 'bankrupt' ('running a deficit') but too long perceived as one of the wealthiest counties in America, welfare recipients live in $250,000 - $500,000 town houses and million dollar single-family homes, now called 'McMansions'.
Social Welfare demands continue for free higher education in colleges and universities, beyond the already available Pell Grants which now have reached approximately $5,000 in cash value. There are further demands for free job skills programs, business grants and low-interest business loans, more food stamps, 'private school' vouchers, more welfare cash benefits, free bus and other transportation passes, and preferential hiring for jobs for which 'special needs' applicants demand or require 'reasonable accommodation' to perform the job.
When unemployment is high, and jobs are scarce, it is practical and humanitarian to hire 'normals' who can do the job well, without the cost of 'reasonable accommodation'. And because non-subsidized normals really do need the job to pay for rent, food, and basics of everyday life.
But where is the proft in social welfare?
For the welfare recipient the profit is in receiving free housing, food, education, transportation, and job training skills. Receivng $34,000 or more annually in free goods and services is the equivalent of profit, cash value above the cost of producing a 'sold' product or service.
For the wealthy, many of whom may be government contractors who construct, broker, finance, or otherwise provide housing, food, and services, social welfare related businesses are ways to make money and profit by qualifying for grants, loans, contributions, and other monies.
Consider an example from education. The working and lower-middle class, still must pay 'real' taxes from 'real' income, without a tax attorney to fight each denied, tax code deduction. These tax dollars are the local, county, state and federal taxes used to build the school, pay the teachers, and provide books, pencils, paper, blackboards and chalk.
But these taxpayers cannot cover the outrageous costs of even computer equipment in the schools. 'Mainstreaming' 'special needs' students has brought additional expense to local school districts for mobility-devices and special equipment requisitioned for students who require nursing care and special services for deaf, blind, and other handicappd students.
Wealthy computer company executives may donate or sell computer equipment to schools at cost or less 'to do business', and to 'profit by loss' line items on their corporate tax returns.
The actual tax-paying working and lower middle-class is tax collected into financial troubles during a time of underemployment and unemployment as is now true. The shrinking tax base cannot cover expenses for the welfare class, which continues to grow and demand more free products and services.
'Tax breaks' for upper-middle class taxpayers and businesses earning $250,000, now under debate, may allow the free items to continue to flow to the welfare populations. However, this group, said to create jobs in return for such tax breaks, may not really hire 'the general public', only family and friends. And they may not have to pay substantial tax monies if they employ a 'good' tax attorney who 'puts through' their deductions and allows them to keep their income or earnings.
Such businesses may benefit from the welfare voucher system in housing construction, food, education, computers. 'On paper' they could benefit at least until their suppliers begin to demand money, or more money for the supplies, rather than do 'credit' exchange and other deals as a way to continue 'to do business', while securing additional business loans for themselves.
The social welfare system works while there are still goods in the warehouses to sell to the working and middle-class. But what happens when banks slow lending to investors who stop investing in real products and services, given to the welfare class in governmentalist-mediated deals, because their 'loss' line items are 'maxed out' and won't produce any more 'tax breaks'? The 'voucher economy' comes to a close. And everyone waits for 'the next big thing' to stimulate the economy.
Ronald Reagan was very insightful in his 1961 speech opposing the Ferrand National Health Care Bill in 1961, recently published online by "Townhall Conservative Classics". Remembering the American people's rejection of Truman's compulsory health insurance program, Reagan said:
"Back in 1927, an American socialist, Norman Thomas, candidate for President on the Socialist Party ticket, said the American poeple would never vote for socialism. But he said under the name of liberalism the American people will adopt every fragment of the socialist program.
One of the traditional methods of imposing 'statism' or socialism on a people has been by way of medicine. It's very easy to disguise a medical program as a humanitarian project. Most people are a little bit reluctant to oppose anything that suggests medical care for people who possibly can't afford it."
The problem we face is the 'hybrid private/state capitalism' governmentalists have developed in the US. Working and lower middle-class citizens are tormented by tax and bill collectors, national and international, for 'real money'.
The voucher system provides free basics of life for the social welfare class. The upper-middle class and wealthy depend on 'real money' tax revenue from the shrinking working- and lower-middle classes. These 'real monies' fund the welfare classes through free social welfare products and services. These products and services are produced and distributed by the upper-middle classes and wealthy, through corporate, philanthropic, and other groups, again drawing from tax revenues for their grant, loan, and other funds.
Reagan recalled James Madison's 1788 speech to the Virginia Convention:
"Since the general civilization of mankind, I believe there are more instances of abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachment of those in power, than by violent and sudden usurpation".
This is true currently in the enormous amount of duplicative erroneous information, accidental and deliberate, found in tax- and bill-collecting databanks, used to financially ruin the lives of US citizens to fund governmentalist programs and projects.
Viciously unfair tax-collecting has skyrocketed with the growth of 'privatized' Internal Revenue Service (IRS) 'spin-off' businesses, an industry grown with computer grants to welfare recipients during the Clinton years (1992-2000), unfortunately continued during the incentive and bonus days of the George W. Bush Administration (2001-2009), and now reinvigorated during the Obama Administration.
What is required is a referendum on the future of the American Democracy.
Why should any group be tormented for tax revenues if the majority chooses a social welfare socialist society with everything to be free to everyone?
Why should a vulnerable group (the working- and lower-middle class) be tormented for tax revenues by governmentalists who have overspent or create the illusion of providing money for social welfare programs at budgetary amounts in the gadzillions, 'illions' for which there are not even words to describe.
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Graphic: An Original Photographic of 'Croc in Enclosed Tank for a Swim', Crocodile 'Chateau', Louisiana, 2002, copyright mkrause381@gmail.com or mkrause54@yahoo.com.
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