When Work Is Punished Again: "If You Accept This Raise, You Fall Off The Welfare Cliff"
We know these people don't want a $15 minimum wage, that would place them right on the cusp of the welfare cliff, and any pay increase would quickly reduce their benefits. These welfare cliffs are disastrous public policy, and disincentivize the poor from earning more than a relatively low income level.
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Police: Man attempts to ignite gas station over Flamin' Hot Cheetos
He gets caught stealing a bag of chips at a gas station convenience store, a misdemeanor crime, so he heads outside, pools some gas, and tosses in a lit cigarette. Boom, felony arson! All for a bag of Flaming Hot Cheetos! That's all in baby! From his looks, his nickname will be - "Girlfriend." New DNC Chair Says Outrage Over Clinton's Pay-To-Play Is Attempt To "Criminalize Normal Behavior"
"Yesterday, Donna Brazile, the new DNC Chair, appeared on ABC's "This Week" and declared that pay for play like "someone who is a donor...saying I want access" is just an attempt to "criminalize behavior that is normal." Specifically, when asked about pay for play allegations against the Clinton Foundation, Brazile responded as follows: "First of all, Martha, the way I look at it, I’ve been a government official. So, you know, this notion that, somehow or another, someone who is a supporter, someone who is a donor, somebody who’s an activist, saying I want access, I want to come into a room and I want to meet people, we often criminalize behavior that is normal. And I don’t see what the smoke is.'" Got it, Racketeering is normal behavior. Extortion is normal behavior. Political corruption is normal behavior. All true, all shocking, except for our political betters. Now would you just shut up about all this and let them get back to the money trough!? Instapundit » Blog Archive » ROGER SIMON: Will the Clinton Foundation Mark the Fall of Our Republic? We’ve witnessed the decli…
No republic can stand if there is even one powerful person the justice system fears to indict, and try before a jury of her peers. "Classical republican writers maintained that to be free means to not be dominated--that is, not to be dependent on the arbitrary will of other individuals. The source of this interpretation of political liberty was the principle of Roman law that defines the status of a free person as not being subject to the arbitrary will of another person--in contrast to a slave, who is dependent on another person's will. As the individual is free when he or she has legal and political rights, so a people or a city is free insofar as it lives under its own laws. [...] Classical republican theorists also stressed that the constraint that fair laws impose on an individual's choices is not a restriction of liberty but an essential element of political liberty itself. They also believed that restrictions imposed by the law on the actions of rulers as well as of ordinary citizens are the only valid shield against coercion on the part of any person or persons. Machiavelli forcefully expressed this belief in his Discourses on Livy (I.29), when he wrote that if there is even one citizen whom the magistrates fear and who has the power to break the law, then the entire city cannot be said to be free. It can be said to be free only when its laws and constitutional orders effectively restrain the arrogance of nobles and the licentiousness of the people." Republicanism, by Viroli The Republic has Fallen: Brought down by The House of Clinton, criminal, and mendacious to the end The minimum punishment Hillary deserves Instapundit » Blog Archive » NO. WAY. Tens of millions of dollars disguised as ‘consumer relief’ are going to liberal politic…
No more Ms. Nice Guy, she will clean up this diversion of cash away from the Clintons! I give her a month, and the money will flow through the Clintons before a small portion is redirected to her allies. Instapundit » Blog Archive » DISPATCHES FROM THE EDUCATION APOCALYPSE: Iowa Professor Fears Fuzzy Hawkeye Mascot Could ‘Traumatiz…
"If you can be “traumatized” by a man running around the sidelines of a football game in a stinky polypropylene mascot head, you’re not mentally well enough to be in college." On the other hand, if you are sane enough not to, no college would ever hire you. Really, the point here is not the students who did not say this but the professors whom all believe it. Unfortunately, it is we who are trapped by the catch-22, not the idiot professors. |
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