Liberals For Generations
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The party of death, willing to kill babies before they're born just so a woman can assert her womb independence to ensure it isn't being compromised by the state, sees no contradictions in paying MY money to encourage others to HAVE them.
Couple that with this idea of incentivizing the illegal flow of bodies, and making sure nothing slows them as they cross into America while singling out sub-sections of the American population searching for new ways to protect them from themselves and further add free healthcare along the way and you have yourself a tidy little construction project for building a new, dependent, and self-perpetuating liberal generation.
The era of "cradle to grave" returns.
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I won't argue Edwards' assertion that there is a serious set of problems with the "young African-American male population in America" and no one can argue against wanting to take care of our children. But if you pay close attention to Hillary's comment, you will find the operative "if" buried in her offerings of a generous "Big Brother":
I like the idea of giving every baby born in America a $5,000 account that will grow over time, so that when that young person turns 18 if they have finished high school they will be able to access it to go to college or maybe they will be able to make that downpayment on their first home"
IF they have finished high school implies, immediately, that conditions will be levied against those who might benefit from such an entitlement. Remember, Edwards wants to address the incarceration and death rates of young African American males...the very same demographic that, statistically, claims the highest incidence of not graduating from high school.
Oh, bother. What to do with those checks that can't be cashed because some of these sub-sections of the population won't or can't qualify for the handout? I know! Spend it on pork and earmarks...what a boon to Democrat spending to have yet another American slush fund with which to play quarters. Of course, just as with Social Security, they could always "borrow" from the fund and drop an IOU in the cash box for a subsequent generation to pay off.
Pathetic.
The fundamental problem with these jaunts into societal manipulation experiments is that there are always outliers, always mutations, and always exceptions. Every time a centralized Government has tried to assign itself the role of arbiter and task master in the lives of its citizenry the experiment goes terribly awry.
In America, it's 300 million v. 535. The statistical likelihood of these little tweaks to our ways of life going terribly askew of the good intentions of the few is enormous.
Democrats and Liberals pride themselves for having a monopoly on celebrating diversity and offering to give any demographic ANY perk and benefit necessary to consider themselves equal among us. The problem with their approach lies in the calculated slicing and dicing of each of the demographics, and singling out those they believe need MOST to consider themselves equal and cared about.
It's purely coincidental that the expectation, in return, is that the ballot box remains Democrat-heavy.
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Diversity is our greatest strength!
It must be, because now even most Republican and 'conservative' leaders spout that platitude every chance they get.
...she wasn't offering to hand them a government bond. Just going by my cursory basic application of actuarial interest calculations here, $5,000 in a T-Bill getting 5% a year will net, oh... about $12,000. You're going to use that for college? Heck, one year of in-state tuition alone at most public universities in Michigan right now is about that much (excluding UofM, which is private-school expensive even for in-state students).
Although I personally find this to be a big entitlement scheme of the first order, if one wanted to do it, I'd call for it to be placed in a high-yield mutual fund to be chosen from several. After all, the returns are better, the recipients are less sensitive to risk, and private enterprise would be able to do more with that level of direct investment than the federal government would. Not to mention, assuming a 10% rate of return annually, they'd have nearly $30,000 by the time they were 18... or, if it were saved until retirement age, somewhere between $4-5 million.
"I don't understand why the same newspaper commentators who bemoan the terrible education given to poor people are always so eager to have those poor people get out and vote." - P.J. O'Rourke
You demonstrate that well.
However, if we were to propose to do something like this, I would sooner have it be a retirement/healthcare fund than a education fund. As long as the government can not touch it, and there were indivdual accounts where one could contribute to them freely AND they could be inherited........
I think Clinton could make headway on a plan like that, if she weren't Clinton.
If she has any of her husband's pragmatism, she'd probably accept such an alternate proposal so long as she could take credit for it.
That being said, that seems to be a bit of an unknown quantity with her, and something I wouldn't want to put her in charge in order to test out.
"I don't understand why the same newspaper commentators who bemoan the terrible education given to poor people are always so eager to have those poor people get out and vote." - P.J. O'Rourke
...Herself threw out as a mindless pander to an audience (the Congressional Black Caucus) that is not at all likely to call her bluff.
Let's not give this idea any more currency than it deserves. Remember, the sheeple will pay attention to anything that sounds like it has legs.
It is a pander to the sheeple who ask for bread and circuses. $5K sounds like a huge amount, and golly, the magic of compound interest would just do miracles with that money! Too bad ignorance and a fair amount of sheer stupidity clouds the judgment of the vast majority of Americans.
...when they see me they'll say, "There goes Loren Wallace,
the greatest thing to ever climb into a race car."
She should be beaten with this stick at every opportunity until she either admits it was mindless pander or she owns up and claims it as a priority for her administration.
In either case, she should then be beaten with her position.
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Hillary's plan is not needed. USFEDGOV already offers subsidized below-market student loans for college costs. Hillary could just forgive a portion of the loan if the student gets a specific GPA, and a greater amount when a degree is obtained and the person gets a productive job (I don't want to subsidize college for "landscape-height-reduction engineers"). This would keep the students accountable, which I realize is a quality that liberals have a hard time endorsing.
-- I see abortion as a pro-choice issue... the baby's choice would be life, just like yours.
-- With the birthrate getting lower every day, pretty soon humans will be an endangered species. Then abortion would be criminal, just like killing a manatee or sea turtle in Florida is now.
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Reality: Thompson/Romney Dream: Santorum/Watts.
But hey Hillary, if you want to tax single childless New Yorkers to subsidize ten-kid home schooling families in Texas, be my guest. :)
The liberals play strong to no restrictions on abortions and same sex marriage ideals. This does not lead to expanding your numbers from growing your own, so they are looking to import them instead. This is an idea already in full swing in Belgium.
Pat Buchanan wrote this over at Townhall.com:
Your story knda makes me wonder if some of the questions Pat raises could also be asked about the future of the US.
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