Lying about jobs created? Obama and Romney can write a duet for the debates. For example, that Obama's claimed job growth isn't even keeping up with the current low US population growth.
Thomas Sowell: There are no solutions, just trade-offs.
Free stuff becomes problematic when “someone” asks a third party to intervene on its behalf, and take “someone else’s” stuff and give it to “someone.” The folks who are forced to give their stuff to the folks who don’t have as much stuff generally end up resenting the folks to whom they give their stuff. To complicate things further, if the group in charge of taking stuff from the first group and giving it to the second group constantly badmouths the first group to the second group, the second group ends up resenting the first group as well.
The more stuff the third party takes from the first group and gives to the second group, the less the first group is able to pay for the free stuff it gives to the second group, and its own stuff as well. As a result, the folks who are paying for the free stuff want the free stuff to stop. Now, the folks who are forcing the folks to give free stuff to the other folks tells the folks receiving the free stuff that the folks giving the free stuff are mean, selfish, racist or all of the above. This angers the folks receiving the free stuff, making them demand even more free stuff on top of the free stuff they’re already getting.
http://www.redstate.com/msmils13/2011/0 ... ree-stuff/
Is it really such an outrageous idea to have those who are in need of public assistance provide some labor of public benefit during the time that they are receiving the assistance? Wouldn't we have more money available for assistance if they did this? If they mowed the grass in the public parks, tended the public flower gardens, painted the public buildings, provided janitorial services after the public buildings closed? Why is it such an outrageous proposition that they provide 10 or 15 hours of labor each week which benefits the public who are providing the assistance while they are receiving assistance from the public coffers?
