Showing posts with label Redistribution. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Redistribution. Show all posts

Sunday, September 13, 2015

Dem party is now further to the left than any point in its history



Sunday, May 3, 2015

Maryland Democrat pinpoints Baltimore’s problem: Wealth hasn’t been spread around enough



For partisan liberals, the spate of urban violence that has characterized anti-law enforcement demonstrations and riots for nearly one year has presented both an opportunity and a challenge. While many Democrats have welcomed the spotlight on policing, urban poverty, and the plight of inner city minorities, they have also been confronted with the unsatisfying results of generations of monopoly Democratic governance.

Some on the left have chosen to ignore this annoying reality entirely.

From prisons, to crumbling infrastructure, to overzealous police, to outsourcing, Baltimore’s predicament is everyone’s fault but the party that has enjoyed prohibitive control over the levers of power in that city for over a half century.

On Sunday, Fox News Sunday host Chris Wallace confronted a Maryland Democrat with the failures of America’s Democrat-dominated urban centers. And not just any Democrat. Wallace sat down across from Rep. Donna Edwards, a progressive Democrat who is running against fellow Maryland Democrat and chosen successor to Sen. Barbara Mikulski, Rep. Chris Van Hollen, for an open U.S. Senate seat in the Old Line State.

Wallace asked Edwards whether it was fair to note that Baltimore has been governed from the left for generations and if it was true to claim “liberal policies have failed” that city. Edwards did not seem to dismiss that comment as invalid, but she also indicated that the only solution to the problems of Democratic governance was more Democratic governance.







Friday, February 7, 2014

“The Democrats once styled themselves the party of workers. Now, they are the party of people who would have been workers, if it hadn’t been for Obamacare.” That doesn’t bode well for them in November; and it doesn’t bode well for the rest of the nation if the situation continues.

Krauthammer: Carney’s Words to be ‘Emblazoned on the Tombstone of Liberalism’ - Ed Driscoll/PJMedia

“Charles Krauthammer made the bold proclamation on Wednesday that the comments White House press secretary Jay Carney made in response to the recently-released CBO report on Obamacare will be ‘emblazoned on the tombstone of liberalism,’” Jason Howerton writes at The Blaze:

Here’s the statement made by Carney that he is referring to:
“Opportunity created by affordable, quality health insurance allows families in America to make a decision about how they will work, or if they will work.”
“He says opportunity. This is what he’s heralding in this achievement, that the government is giving opportunity for people to decide if they want to work. This is the liberals’ ideal of the opportunity society,” Krauthammer said. “Of course, in a free society, you can decide if you want to work, but what Obamacare does, and so the essence of liberalism, is you can choose not to work, and the people who do work end up subsidizing you.”

In other words, he explained, the people who work “have to send their money to the government” so they can redistribute it to the people who choose, “in this ideal new opportunity society,” not to work.

The Comment Made by Jay Carney That Charles Krauthammer Says Will Be ‘Emblazoned on the Tombstone of Liberalism’ - Jason Howerton/The Blaze

...Oh, and speaking of Obama’s Palace Guard stumbling into an “unexpectedly” rude surprise:


As Rich Lowry writes, “The Democrats once styled themselves the party of workers. Now, they are the party of people who would have been workers, if it hadn’t been for Obamacare.” That doesn’t bode well for them in November; and it doesn’t bode well for the rest of the nation if the situation continues.

Until it can’t.

The Party of Less Work - Rich Lowry/Politico