This is the story of a woman and her family who went from affluence to living off the public dole. Darlene Acuna went from a television producer to a stay-at-home mom nursing twin girls before the family hit hard times and were forced to the welfare line. Now she and her unemployed husband pick up their food stamps in a Mercedes, she feels that she’s being judged and wants the world to treat her better.
“Everyone has peaks and valleys in their lives,” says John Phillips of PJTV. “Sometimes you have good years, sometimes you have bad years. When you have newborn kids and you’re in a situation where someone’s else’s existence is dependent on you bringing home the bacon, you make whatever sacrifices you have to make to make that work.”
Phillips and a panel composed of radio TV host Tammy Bruce, stand-up comic and PJTV contributor Stephen Kruiser and PJTV contributor Scott Ott sat down for a lively debate on the situation in this edition of “After Hours.”
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What does a government shutdown really mean? It’s not all it’s cranked up to be, says political pundit Dick Morris. “We really misunderstand the concept of a government shutdown. It does not shut down the government. We just call it that,” says Morris. “What it does is shut down those activities which are governed by discretionary spending that’s voted by Congress each year. The entitlements, Social Security, Medicare, veterans benefits, food stamps, welfare, disability all go on getting paid because they are not governed by the funds that Congress appropriates annually.”
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Brace yourselves: New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie warned that tax hikes are coming. Has Christie always been a closet Democrat or has Hurricane Sandy left him with little choice? Find out as Stephen Green brings you The Week In Blogs, including Obama’s plans to increase welfare spending, in addition to Rep. Paul Ryan’s warning to Obama. H/T PJTV
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Mickey Kaus, columnist with The Daily Caller, takes a critical look at President Obama’s efforts to water down work requirements for welfare recipients. Kaus also examines the terrorist assault on the US consulate in Benghazi, Libya, and speculates on how the attack might impact the 2012 election. Kaus shares his thoughts with Glenn Reynolds in a new installment of InstaVision. H/T PJTV
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This just in…”The number of Americans using food stamps has climbed to its highest level ever,” Jodi Miller reports. “But there is good news. At least the people who make food stamps are better off than they were four years ago.” Hear more on unemployment, corporate profits, jobless college graduates and actress Amanda Bynes’ DWI problems in the latest edition of NewsBusted.
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Why be a taxpayer when I can be a tax spender? H/T Zilla of the Resistance
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This just in. Billionaire Warren Buffett has dropped from 3rd richest man in the world to 4th. What’s that mean? “Obama’s going to have to bail him out soon,” says Jodi Miller in her latest edition of NewsBusted. Watch her twice a week on newsbusters.org
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One-third of Americans now receive some form of welfare benefits from the federal government. That’s 100 million Americans, roughly double the number since President Obama took office in 2008. Dick Morris calls this an unsettling trend, one with dangerous repercussions if it’s not reversed.
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Instead of ending poverty, the Great Society policies launched by President Lyndon B. Johnson backfired, causing poverty to become more pervasive and insidious. The reason: Johnson’s welfare programs weren’t designed to succeed, but rather to establish an entrenched entitlement system leading to greater dependence on the federal government for the benefit of a “parasitic political class.” Kevin D. Williamson outlines the arguments why this is so in his new broadside The Dependency Agenda, published by Encounter Books.
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