The Democratic Party used to call itself the party of working people and hail the “dignity of work.” No more. Now Democrats want to guarantee people who choose not to work an income funded by the suckers who do the right thing by showing up for work, caring for their family and paying taxes.
Fortunately, these self-supporting Americans just dodged a bullet. The failure to pass Build Back Better in Congress, thanks to holdout Sen. Joe Manchin (D-West Virginia) means that the monthly checks or automatic bank deposits to parents with kids, sometimes dubbed Biden Bucks, come to an end this month.
For working people, the monthly payments were merely an advance on their tax refunds — but parents who choose not to work have been getting no-strings money to support their nonworking lifestyle.
Using the pretext of pandemic relief, Democrats enacting the American Rescue Plan last March changed a feature of the tax code — the child tax credit available to adults who work and pay taxes — into a grant paid unconditionally and monthly to almost all adults with kids, whether they work or not.
Democrats have been pushing to extend the monthly payments through 2022 as part of the Build Back Better Act, with a plan to make them permanent.
Manchin saw right through what his party intended: a socialist-style universal basic income. Manchin objected to the unconditional monthly cash grants: “There’s no work requirement whatsoever.”
“Don’t you think if we’re going to help the children,” Manchin asked, the parents “should make some effort?”
So what about the Democratic Party that represents working people? President Joe Biden still talks the talk. “My Dad used to say, ‘Joey, a job is about a lot more than a paycheck. It’s about your dignity. It’s about respect. It’s about your place in the community.'”
But Biden’s party is no longer walking that walk. As Rep. Gwen Moore (D-Wisconsin) told the House Ways and Means Committee during a debate over Build Back Better, “the so-called dignity of work — that’s like hearing a fingernail on a chalkboard.” New York Magazine’s Eric Levitz calls Manchin’s work ethic convictions “contemptible.”
Sorry, but most Americans don’t want to support the moochers.
Supporters of the monthly payments hail them as “already a huge success” for lifting millions of children out of poverty. Nonsense. That’s what a working parent does. The national poverty rate fell temporarily, but the payments didn’t solve the problem of parents without the mindset to support their children.
This is deja vu. Before the 1996 welfare reform enacted by a Republican Congress and signed by President Bill Clinton, Uncle Sam used to send checks to nonworking parents. Welfare reform changed that, requiring parents to work or train for work in order to receive cash benefits. It succeeded, reducing the welfare rolls, ameliorating child poverty and helping single mothers become self-sufficient.
Yet, today’s Democratic Party spurns that model. Democrats tend to blame unemployment on racism or a rigged economy and argue that people deserve dignity, whether they choose to work or not.
Of course, all human beings deserve dignity — but not a seat on the couch in front of the TV funded by people who toil.
Democratic politicians all over the nation are pushing to provide a monthly basic income to the nonworking poor, courtesy of taxpayers. They’ve formed Mayors for a Guaranteed Income. Los Angeles is sending out monthly $1,000 checks to 2,000 residents.
Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot is using millions in federal pandemic relief funding to distribute $500 a month cash stipends to randomly chosen low-income recipients. That ought to enrage anyone who works and pays taxes.
Jobs are plentiful. The National Federation of Independent Businesses reported that over half of small business owners cannot fill positions. Small businesses are posting “Help Wanted” signs in windows.
Every time you pass one of those signs, you can thank Manchin for holding the line against making taxpayers into suckers supporting the freeloaders.
Thank you, Joe Manchin. We need more Democrats to stand up for the workers and block these hand outs.
GOD BLESS MANCHIN FOR USING THAT BRAIN IN HIS HEAD AND SEEING WHAT THOSE CLUELESS DEMOCRATS WERE TRYING TO DO! MANCHIN is the only democrat I know of that engages his brain before making a decision!
FYI: Do you understand what those idiot democrats are trying to do to our Nation by paying out mega $$ to non-working parents? Think about this hard!! By “giving” out monies to parents that rather sit on the couch and watch TV all day instead of holding down a job, THE DEMOCRATS ARE SLOWLY CHANGING OUR SOCIETY INTO A “SOCIALISTIC” EXISTENCE, GETTING PEOPLE USED TO THE GOVT PAYING FOR EVERYTHING IN OUR LIVES!!
THE ABOVE IS NOTHING MORE THAN A DEMOCRAT WET DREAM — they have no idea how DESTRUCTIVE SOCIALISM IS TO A COUNTRY!!
It destroys people’s initiative to make better lives for themselves and their families — it IS A DRONE SOCIETY (like the 🐝 in a bee hive that go get the honey, put it in the honeycomb, then go back out to get more honey 24/7 — that’s their entire life!!
In Socialism, it is definitely a drone society where you do what job the govt gives you; you live where the govt wants you to live; you marry WHO the govt says you can marry (the govt cannot allow two intelligent people to marry and have a much more intelligent child that sees what the govt is doing to its parents); it tells you how many children you can have, if any; and lastly, should you get sick, the govt tells you if you can or cannot have surgery, or if you are terminal, if you can get comforting medications or if you are just left to die — like the little dying bee 🐝 drone!
Like the bee hive, DRONES DO THEIR JOBS UNTIL ONE DAY THEY JUST DIE WHERE EVER THEY LAND. No worries for the govt. There is always another dumbed down drone to take the place of the dead bee 🐝 drone!
So please be EXTREMELY THANKFUL TO MANCHIN WHO SINGLE HANDEDLY SQUASHED THE LEFTISTS BIGGEST ATTEMPT AT TRANSFORMING OUR AMERICAN SOCIETY INTO A SOCIALIST NATION! Send him an email or Fax “THANKING HIM FOR SAVING OUR NATION FROM THE FIRST STEP TO SOCIALISM!!!” That man deserves a MEDAL for daring to push back at the deluded democrat party!! CUDOS TO MANCHIN!
Please spread the word around about what happens to the people in a Socialistic
Society — especially to our youth who ARE NOT BEING TAUGHT TRUTHS ABOUT SOCIALISM AND THINK IT IS A GREAT IDEA!! They need to know that ALL OF THEIR PERSONAL DECISIONS WILL BE MADE BY THE GOVT — NOT THE YOUTH!!
Right now they have been lied too and that needs to be changed with the TRUTHS! My high school students were shocked when they found out how Socialism really works and everyone of them screamed they would NEVER ACCEPT SOCIALISM IN THEIR LIVES!
👉THE TRUTH REALLY MUST BE KNOWN SO OUR YOUTH UNDERSTANDS THAT DEMOCRATS LIED TO THEM ABOUT SOCIALISM — it KILLS SOCIETIES, NOT NURTURING THEM!
The really sad thing about democrat largesse that seems to go almost unnoticed is how it dehumanizes those it purports to help. Meaningful work, the sense that one is able to do important and valued things, is how real self-esteem is created. Without purpose and the ability to see value in one’s own existence, it is a quick trip to seeking escape from the ennui of life — and we become sensation seekers who will go to any lengths just to “feel” something that imitates life. We’re moving from privilege to hedonism and self-destruction, and the cure is simple: choosing purpose over politically created uselessness. Entitlement is a cancer of the soul.