The Worst Kind of Welfare Recipient: Congressman, Senators, Presidents, and all those in between

We often think of welfare recipients as the inner city single mom who has had children recklessly in order to receive more government benefits.  Or the retired crack addicts who spent their youth and money on drugs only to become born again in the eyes of God but penniless, toothless, unemployable adults.  Or the reckless young people who have been taught that they should apply for welfare at every turn by their public schools serving as sign up centers for government assistance promoting reckless behavior so that recruiting for welfare programs is higher.  There is another class of welfare recipient that very few talk about which costs more money than all those demographic stereotypes combined.  That class would be the political class, of which people like Barack Obama and Speaker John Boehner are a part.  In fact the most expensive public housing project in the country by square foot  is The White House where the recipients who live and work there are all welfare recipients living off the public dime.  For a breakdown of this political class of welfare takers listen to Darryl Parks from 700 WLW where he brought his usual stats to an epic broadcast which will forever live in infamy.  Listen carefully!

After listening to Darryl is there any hope that any politician from the local trustee, to a federal senator or congressman will ever do anything to cut off the welfare from which they are empowered to give so much money to themselves?  Does anybody think that John Boehner will reform federal spending which would take money out of the pockets of the House he resides over–of course not; otherwise they would not have picked him as their leader.  Boehner was not picked by members of the GOP in the House because of his high ethical standards, his moral authority; his understanding of law—but rather for his ability to keep the members of the federal government firmly entrenched on welfare.  Under no other operation could any worker anywhere hope to make as much money as people like John Boehner have made in the federal government.

As Darryl Parks stated, the reason politicians like Boehner have been in government for so long and is considered a leader of his party is because he has the ability to raise money.  I personally know some of the people who give a lot of money to Boehner– I’m only picking on him because he is my congressman—so I have firsthand knowledge of the guy.  I know Boehner is a nice fellow who my in-laws spotted in their early days at the Beckett Ridge Country Club where my wife and I were married. They knew him through his family as being an up and coming star in politics.  Paul Ryan as a young whipper-snapper at Miami University down the road from John’s home actually put out yard signs for Boehner’s first congressional run in areas like Trenton, Lakota, Fairfield and his college campus.  The speeches politicians give to get elected are all the same, but the result never changes either.  In spite of all the campaign promises what the members who lobby themselves into the political class are really after is easy money where all they have to do is sign up for the vast number of welfare programs offered by the federal government disguised as salary.

I have been to fundraisers where the plates are $500 a plate so the welfare recipients can make appearances to the public.  Knowing of John and his family most of my life as next door neighbors so-to-speak it shocked me recently to see some friends who were worth millions of dollars willingly pass out invites to one of these John Boehner fundraisers.  These very financially wealthy friends looked toward the event as though they were school girls who had back stage passes to the latest boy band concert.  Boehner had been made up to be a celebrity because he was the third most powerful person in the entire world—according to the media, and that designated celebrity status.

But when I look at John I only see a welfare recipient.  He’s a guy who makes his living making rules, and that is a very parasitic existence.  That certainly doesn’t make him a celebrity in my book.  But worse, he does virtually nothing to earn the vast sums of money he takes as a congressman.  Sure he does a lot of “wheeling and dealing” in Washington, but how much of it is for the good of the country?  Not much.  Most of Boehner’s wheeling and dealing is done for the good of his party, so that he can use the celebrity created by the media to generate money from my friends who are willing to pay $50 to $500 dollars a plate to raise money for his “war chest,” so he can win more elections and gain more welfare wealth.

Does any of this make John a bad guy?  No.  It just makes him a parasitic welfare recipient that our modern statist system of government uses to create celebrity status so more people turn to government for their riches, instead of private enterprise.  To stay in power politicians like John need to convince people of real power—those who are wealthy, that their campaign donations are worthy of his celebrity status—an image created by the media for the benefit of all welfare recipients, from the crack whore of the inner city to the residents of The White House. Once John raises his money and stays in power, he then makes his money by appeasing the mob in congress who often gives themselves raises, while enriching themselves with insider trading and lobbyist bribes.  John claims to have a clean record with lobbyists, but he wouldn’t be House Leader unless he turned his head the other way so others could abuse the system.

Yet the only way that the debt ceiling can stop climbing its way back from the $17 trillion dollar mark is for congress, and the senate to spend less money, and to do that, they have to stop taking so much themselves.  At some point in time they have to stop viewing federal office as a treasure chest full of pirates looting and pillaging as though there were no tomorrow.  The result of that behavior is what we have seen in modern Detroit.  California is next, followed by the entire nation of America.  Politicians robbed Detroit blind just as they are now against every taxpaying district where most of the money collected goes to inflated government pensions, and wages that are not representative of the skill level purchased.  For most of these workers that in the federal government pay near six figures in salary, their actual work is only worth bare minimum wage in the private sector.  There is a reason that Washington D.C. has the highest per capita worth anywhere in the country.  It’s not because they make wonderful cars, or airplanes, or even computers.  All they make in Washington are deals from one welfare recipient to another swapping money stolen from the American tax payer for the benefit of themselves.

To some degree or another anyone who is employed off tax money is a welfare recipient, including those who work at NASA.  If the federal government is involved, the employees are welfare recipients.  Not all of them are diabolical menaces to morality, and some actually contribute to the betterment of science.  NASA has done many great things for America and the world, so in some cases, the money can be worth it.  In most situations however, as in the present day political landscape, politicians were never intended to become so wealthy as social servants under elected office—and they were never intended to make life-time careers out of the election process.  So long as the desire for easy money in politics exists, con artists, lawyers, social parasites, and comb over, insecure womanizers will desire to occupy those halls of power that are built off the sweat of the American tax payer—where looting off of goodness is so common that the violations are as frequent as the raindrops of a summer storm in a monsoon soaked region of the world prying for daylight.

Rich Hoffman

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