Evidence: Obama WANTS you poor and dependent

Posted on Friday, September 9, 2016 by BZ

These days Judicial Watch is doing some of the finest work in the nation. It is throwing FOIA requests at the government and continually attempting to expose the rampant corruption and manipulation in the Obama administration.

Thusly today, from JudicialWatch.org:

Records Show Obama Hired Behavioral Experts to Expand Use of Govt. Programs

The Obama administration quietly hired 20 social and behavioral research experts to help expand the use of government programs at dozens of agencies by, among other things, simplifying federal forms, according to records obtained by Judicial Watch. The controversial group of experts is collectively known as the Social and Behavioral Sciences Team (SBST) and it functions under the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP).

In 2015 Obama signed an executive order directing federal agencies to use behavioral science to sell their programs to the public, the records obtained by Judicial Watch reveal. By then the government had contracted “20 leading social and behavioral research experts” that at that point had already been involved in “more than 75 agency collaborations,” the records state. A memo sent from SBST chair Maya Shankar, a neuroscientist, to OSTP Director John Holdren offers agencies guidance and information about available government support for using behavioral insights to improve federal forms. Sent electronically, the memo is titled “Behavioral Science Insights and Federal Forms.”

Ladies and gentlemen, many of you in the US have been manipulated by professional behavioral scientists — purposely — in order to create your continued and expanded dependency on government for more and more assets and instances in your life.

The goal of this is to strip away your discretionary powers, your right to choose, to make independent decisions, to make life choices, to say what you wish about any thing at any time, to defend yourself against governmental intrusion and oppression, to monitor your every move, your every action, your every dollar, your every investment of money, time or sweat equity. The goal is dominance and tyranny.

“When behavioral insights—research findings from behavioral economics and psychology about how people make decisions and act on them—are brought into policy, the returns are significant,” according to the SBST report.

Yes. Significant for the government; less so for you.

And now this isn’t just speculative theory, oh no.

The proof is here.

Obama, Demorats, Leftists, Progressives, Socialists, want you weak, dependent, unable to think critically, brainwashed and sucking at the government teat, in order for them to acquire vaster amounts of power and control over you and your life.

$15 points to ponder:

Posted on Monday, April 20, 2015 by BZ

People across the United States seem to want a $15 per hour “minimum wage.” This is literally twice the current federal minimum wage.

They don’t just want it, they are protesting (bankrolled by organized labor) and in some cases being arrested for it.

These persons believe that working at, say, a McDonald’s should be offered what is termed a “living wage.” That is, a person should be able to possess a job at a McDonald’s and live on that wage, raise a family.

I suppose, in a world dotted with purple skies, a $15 “minimum wage” is a good place to start, coupled with free health care and various forms of additional welfare.

The problem becomes three-fold, however:

1. Few consider the actual consequences of various acts, and
2. Who pays and how much?
3. What are the societal results?

In terms of unintended or unforecasted consequences, they may already be occurring. From the BusinessInsider.com:

Wal-Mart suddenly closed 5 stores and laid off thousands of workers and no one knows why

by Hayley Peterson

Wal-Mart suddenly closed five stores in four states on Monday for alleged plumbing problems.

Some employees believe that the stores were closed because of worker protests for higher pay.

Employees of the Pico Rivera store were among the first to hold Black Friday protests in 2012.

“This is the first store that went on strike,” an employee told CBS Los Angeles. “This is the first store in demanding changes for Walmart.”

I would tend to place this article into the “unintended consequences” portion of my story.

I don’t doubt for a moment that Walmart is closing these stores because they’re uninterested in catering to those persons seeking to fleece the company, by either wages or unionization. They are of sufficient size that they can take the fiscal hit. For a time.

Walmart is the largest single employer of persons in the United States, at 2.2 million. Leftists despise “big” and they despise “corporations,” but fail to make the links between Capitalism, profits and freedom. They fail to understand the concept that, as costs increase, businesses either pass these costs on to the consumer or they fail. When businesses fail they stop providing jobs. To you and me, this is a simple and obvious concept. Not to Leftists, who believe that businesses have an obligation to lose money if such loss “benefits” certain strata of persons, as a societal onus.

Further, unionization is a desired outcome. When unions flourish, the first thing they do is enable a closed shop and force union dues. When you’re an undersea welder making $26 to $50 an hour, or a port crane operator making $82.15 an hour in NYC, you can pretty much afford your dues. But with a cheeseburger icon prodder or a burger wrapper making the desired $15 an hour, dues are going to hurt. And you’re not going to get a choice.

In Seattle, a bastion of Leftism, businesses are shuttering doors in anticipation of the minimum wage boost. Why? Because small businesses can’t, literally, afford it.

Further, just why is it that commuter airline pilots make roughly $15 to $20 an hour and — yet — unskilled workers pushing the CHEESEBURGER icon at McDonald’s expect to be paid a similar wage rate? I find that a ridiculous disparity on any number of levels.

Let’s be frank for just a moment, shall we?

Minimum wage positions were meant to be nothing more than introductory jobs, easing new workers into the ranks of the employed, getting them used to punching a time clock, appearing for work on time, being dependable, responsible, answerable to a higher authority, learning a preliminary skill, basic societal and business competence.

Let us also admit that not everyone was issued precisely alike from the factory. Some persons — and I’m sure you know your fair share — simply don’t have the inclination or the capability to perform certain jobs. In other words, they’re blithering idiots. Perhaps it’s your brother, your nephew, a co-worker or even your boss. You wouldn’t trust them to clean your toilet reliably and with acumen, much less what they’re doing now. Unless they are doing nothing.

Therein lies another rub. Actors ask: what is my character’s “motivation” in a certain scene, movie or play? There exists a strata of human clotted clag that simply lacks motivation, goals and aspirations. They are perfectly satisfied with doing nothing, accomplishing nothing, and expect to be paid and comforted for it. These people are drones. Their numbers are increasing daily because, for no other reason, various governments encourage such behavior — such as the federal government and your state government. In my case, Fornicalia. Fornicalia is a Drone’s and Illegal’s Paradise. It is also a psychologically-damaged and developmentally-disabled magnet.

Many people now say, however, that these unskilled workers are working two or three like jobs in order to provide for their families. Taken off these jobs or kept at a lower wage, these workers would actually cost the taxpayer more than if businesses would simply ante up to a $15 per hour scale.

This is a false argument.

Minimum wage jobs were meant to be introductory jobs only, not jobs for life. The wages for these jobs were and are commensurate with the skills and education necessary to perform them. I made $5.79 an hour as a deputy sheriff in Fornicalia in 1978, putting my life at risk every day. I considered myself lucky to have the job at all. And yet, at the time, the minimum wage was $2.90. There was no way I could afford a house in that coastal county — they were beginning at $100,000. Way over my capability to purchase.

So guess what? I didn’t purchase a house. I didn’t purchase an ATV, a motorcycle, a recreational vehicle, a motorcycle, and I didn’t carry a balance on my credit card. And yet, oddly enough, I survived and then thrived because I stuck it out. Yes, ladies and gentlemen, I stuck it out. I refused to extend myself and place myself into a budgetarily-precarious position.

Self control.

What a concept.

So pass that $15-per-hour minimum wage, Leftists, and let’s just see where it gets those workers it was meant to “protect.”

It is not business’s job to lose money.

The inherent and continuing racism of Democrats

Posted on Sunday, November 2, 2014 by BZ

True for years and predominantly ignored.

Population centers = Demorats = Leftists = failed programs = the greatest collection of failed blacks in the nation = huge welfare numbers. And the greatest number of welfare demanders. Demorats hate families and independent-thinking black men and women.

Demorats are too ingrained in power to turn over power in order to have blacks and the downtrodden succeed. Won’t happen. Demorats succeed upon ignorance.

Note to blacks: keep being stupid and voting for Demorats. You continue to vote your oppressors power and money. Way to go.

Detroit, water, and the UN building

Posted on Friday, September 26, 2014 by BZ

Water is apparently a human right, according to residents in Detroit, Michigan.

Deadbeat residents in Detroit, Michigan, can’t pay their water bills. All roughly 17,000 of them. However, no one quite knows how many of those bills represent persons still living in Detroit, and those who have abandoned their homes. Because, in general, Detroit looks much like this:

That said, the city of Detroit is now doing its worst: actually turning OFF water to those who haven’t made their payments. This is, clearly, beyond evil. So sayeth those whose presence still exists.

From WSJ.com:

Detroit Residents: Restore Our Water

Detroit Homeowners Delinquent in Making Payments Testify About Hardships

by Matthew Dolan

DETROIT—In this bedeviled city struggling to convince residents to pay their bills, a slash of blue spray paint on front lawns serves as a kind of scarlet letter of debt.

“I was really embarrassed. I started to cry,” Carol Ann Bogden, a 68-year-old retired emergency-room nurse told a federal judge Monday, describing how city water department officials marked her home before shutting off service in July.

During the last two years, the city’s water and sewerage department has put its mark on tens of thousands of residences. With the help of advocacy groups, some homeowners are suing to restore service and stop future residential shut-offs for at least six months.

Your problem, madame, is that you still live in and believe in Detroit. I’d have guessed you’d understood that basic conundrum from its establishment because, as a nurse, you are clearly not stupid.

People in the rest of the United States laugh out loud at the so-called “predicament” of Detroit. They predominantly ignore you because they perceive you as too stupid to understand your plight. They readily compare Detroit to Hiroshima.

And your expectations of some kind of deus ex machina.

But wait. Aren’t those blacks? Protesting the decisions of blacks? Because blacks are mostly in charge of Detroit?

Urban experts see Detroit’s dilemma as a result of the city’s inability to cover the expense of an outsize infrastructure system built when the city’s population approached 2 million. As of 2013, the city had about 688,000 residents.

“Detroit is a bit like a teenager who has inherited an expensive sedan—the car may have been free, but he doesn’t have the income to cover the insurance or maintenance and maybe not even the gas,” Harvard University economics professor Edward Glaeser said in an email.

But here’s where it gets even better:

The utility cutoffs in Detroit amid its municipal bankruptcy have drawn international criticism, including from a United Nations group that alleged the city was violating basic human rights for water.

There you go. The United Nations now involving itself in Detroit.

Let’s go a bit deeper into the topic, shall we?

Now AlJazeera.net weighs in.

UN panel: Detroit water cutoffs violate human rights

A large-scale water shutoff is underway in Detroit, a move that advocates say is taking its toll on the poor

by Amel Ahmed

A United Nations team of experts said Wednesday that Detroit officials’ decision to shut off water service to thousands of residents who are late in paying bills is an affront to human rights.

“Disconnection of water services because of failure to pay due to lack of means constitutes a violation of the human right to water and other international human rights,” the U.N. officials said in a news release. “Because of a high poverty rate and a high unemployment rate, relatively expensive water bills in Detroit are unaffordable for a significant portion of the population.”

The U.N. assessment comes days after a coalition of welfare rights groups — including the Detroit People’s Water Board, Food and Water Watch and Canada-based Blue Planet Project — pleaded in an open letter for the world body to intervene.

A wonderful way to invite the United Nations into the once-sovereign country formerly known as the United States of America.

Here is one amazing thing: the Detroit Water and Sewerage Department (DWSD) actually expects to try to acquire a minimal percentage of its bills due.

How onerous to think that DWSD should have to maintain an ancient infrastructure heretofore unaddressed. How terrible to think that the DWSD should attempt even briefly to recoup costs it had to place up front. That it had to attempt to replace pipes and motors and systems once ignored? Hello, anyone? Infrastructure?

That said, however: should these bills be dismissed summarily due to the overall goodness of the UN?

But wait. It gets better.

The No. 1 scofflaw isn’t a business but the State of Michigan, which the department said owes more than $5 million. Dave Murray, deputy press secretary for Gov. Rick Snyder (who is sheparding Detroit through the largest municipal bankruptcy in U.S. history) said the bills have been disputed for the last five years over a possible broken water main near the old state fairgrounds in the city limits, which was mothballed several years ago.

And, with UN intervention, should not everything in Detroit simply “get better”?

With that, the UN is invited.

The UN weighs in, as per AlJazeera.com:

The large-scale service shutoffs risk being inequitable, according to Leilani Farha, one member of the U.N. team. “If these water disconnections disproportionately affect African-Americans they may be discriminatory, in violation of treaties the U.S. has ratified,” Farha said in the press release.

She urged the U.S. government to ensure due process guarantees in relation to water disconnections.

According to international human rights law, states are obligated to provide urgent remedial measures, including financial assistance, to ensure access to essential water and sanitation. “The households which suffered unjustified disconnections must be immediately reconnected,” the U.N. experts said.

UN intervention.

Further, in consideration of the UN, I have a suggestion.

Remove the UN from US shores.

Then, further, turn the UN buildings into either 1) expensive condos or 2) low income apartments.

My my my.

Nothing better than that.

Here is the goodness of people taught to demand something for nothing:

Posted on Tuesday, October 15, 2013 by BZ

From KSLA.com, channel 12 in Louisiana:

Walmart shelves in Springhill, Mansfield, cleared in EBT glitch

By Carolyn Roy

MANSFIELD, LA (KSLA) –

Shelves in Walmart stores in Springhill and Mansfield, LA were reportedly cleared Saturday night, when the stores allowed purchases on EBT cards even though they were not showing limits.

The chaos that followed ultimately required intervention from local police, and left behind numerous carts filled to overflowing, apparently abandoned when the glitch-spurred shopping frenzy ended.

Springhill Police Chief Will Lynd confirms they were called in to help the employees at Walmart because there were so many people clearing off the shelves. He says Walmart was so packed, “It was worse than any black Friday” that he’s ever seen.

Wait a minute. Is this reporter and the police chief attempting to intimate that those poor, helpless and needy persons may have been exhibiting a modicum of greed stemming from their new-found Free Cheese “open” EBT cards?

Lynd explained the cards weren’t showing limits and they called corporate Walmart, whose spokesman said to let the people use the cards anyway. From 7 to 9 p.m., people were loading up their carts, but when the cards began showing limits again around 9, one woman was detained because she rang up a bill of $700.00 and only had .49 on her card. She was held by police until corporate Walmart said they wouldn’t press charges if she left the food.

Lynd says at 9 p.m., when the cards came back online and it was announced over the loud speaker, people just left their carts full of food in the aisles and left.

There was, however, a huge mess left behind. Pictures and videos obtained by KSLA News 12 show aisles packed with shoppers emptying the shelves in Springhill. Another video shows what appear to be at least dozens of overflowing carts left abandoned in the aisles at the Mansfield store, against the backdrop of emptied shelves in the meat department.

The reporting indicating that persons who discovered their cards had limits and simply left their carts in situ must be false. Surely the upright, righteous and the truly needy would have assisted the store in trying to return stock to shelves, as the principled, good-hearted and true persons they are.

KSLA News 12 Shreveport, Louisiana News Weather

Let’s talk straight for a moment, shall we?

Predominantly populated by blacks and the grossly obese, the Walmart shelves were sacked by persons who were conducting clear and obvious fraud when they realized that some kind of computer glitch allowed them to, literally, take whatever they wanted from the shelves with no consequences and no limits. For a full two hours.

“That’s plain theft, that’s stealing, that’s all I got to say about it.”

The carts left behind beg another question for Walmart and future purchasers: how long was the frozen food left out, and would you go back and purchase that frozen food yourself?

This, ladies and gentlemen, is what you get when your loving federal government has taught people, for generations, to not work, to not keep males in the family nucleus.

You can thank your federal government for the literal explosion of gangs, comprised of individuals who are looking for nothing more than acceptance, importance, inclusion and a sense of belonging — something they do not get in today’s purposely-fragmented families. Which they do get in gangs.

Bloviating Zeppelin

Right thinking from a Left brain.

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