Our Democrat Welfare-State Drug Lords

Five liberal Democrat presidential candidates — one actually honest enough to label himself a socialist — appeared before the American public in their first debate. They made it apparent that the only variation between any of them was just how much bigger and how much faster each one wants to grow government.

Democratic Party politicians no longer feel any need to even pay lip service to the idea that America has anything to do with a free people.

Their unabashed rendition of the American dream is increasing percentages of the American population dependent on getting money recycled to them from the government — money taken from other citizens or from ever-increasing government debt.

And seeing as record numbers of Americans have become dependent on government, Democrats have a pretty powerful political strategy. More and more Americans just want assurance that they won’t lose their government money. They are less interested in where the money is coming from; whether we are going bankrupt; what bloated government is doing to the performance of our economy; or the moral price they are paying for this government dependency.

According to the Office of Management and Budget, 70 percent of U.S. government spending in 2013 was government transfers — direct payments of the government to individuals. Before 1960, transfer payments used less than 20 percent of the U.S. government budget.

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