Robert G. Yetman, Jr.

The Octuplets Mom: Beyond the Obvious

Nadya Suleman, also known as “octomom,” has become nothing short of a lightning rod in the public discourse of late.  Indeed, her case seems to have generated almost as many impassioned feelings as has the battle over the stimulus bill that carries with it the very fate of our nation.  Most who heard about the delivery of the octuplets…the result of aggressive fertility treatments… in its earliest moments seemed to feel rather benignly about the whole thing, until unsettling details emerged about Suleman’s profile that made her the poster child for the anti-welfare brigade.  We quickly learned that she already had six children, no husband, lived with her parents, and had no job.  That was just the beginning.  We further learned that she paid for her fertility treatments in large part from the $165,000 she received as a disability award following an on-the-job back injury (a back injury which, despite the size of the award, didn’t seem to keep her from carrying eight babies at once to term), and has been receiving food stamp assistance and Social Security disability payments…after she claimed that she was not on the taxpayer dole.

The expression of public outrage is more than understandable.  She has supposedly been receiving death threats, but even if she hasn’t, it’s clear that public opinion is nearly unanimous against her and what she’s done.  In a world where incalculable numbers of working couples are up at 5:00 a.m., sore backs and all, to ready for the arduous working day ahead, struggling to live within their means and doing so with little room to spare, it’s easy to understand the vitriol directed squarely at Suleman.

That said…there is a bigger issue here, and it’s one that suggests ominous overtones for the future of America.

You see, Nadya Suleman is over 18 and is a citizen of the United States…which means she can vote…and for every Nadya Suleman you hear about, there are untold thousands of others who have a kinship, of sorts, with her: people who, like her, don’t feel that the food stamps and Social Security payments they receive should really count as welfare (she actually said that), people who feel they are entitled to whatever economic support they need for their idiotic lives and lifestyle choices…and have the power to vote for any pandering, pro-communist politician who promises to give it to them.

The difference between 1929 and now is all the freeloaders we have in the country these days, which is what makes this economic mess so worrisome.  Now, instead of being able to rely on a present-day version of what Tom Brokaw called our “Greatest Generation” to pull us out of this mess, we are instead burdened by what may be one of our worst: A generation of voters who proudly wear their entitlement mentalities like a beautiful new fashion accessory, and who are only too happy to vote themselves whatever government support is dangled in their faces as they head to the ballot box.  Nadya Suleman may be the face of that generation at present, but make no mistake, there are many more faces…and votes…besides hers, and it is the totality of those that threatens to doom us all.     

Robert G. Yetman, Jr.  Editor-At-Large www.ChristianMoney.com

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Elite Democrats Clearly Hate All of You

Why are there so many rich Democrats?  Why do political hacks like John Kerry, Ted Kennedy, John Edwards, et al., who are worth between many millions and billions apiece, get to be Democrats?  What in the world do they have in common with the demographic for which they are supposedly always fighting…the poor and downtrodden?

On a highly-related note, what gives with the disinclination of so many Democrats to pay taxes?  Here’s the quick rundown of the high-profile Democrats, nominated for various cabinet positions by the new president, who apparently can’t see their way to paying Uncle Sam the way you and I do:

Nancy Killefer, who was nominated to be, of all things, the first “Chief Performance Officer” for the federal government, failed to pay unemployment taxes on household help for a year and a half.  She has withdrawn her nomination for this esteemed post;

 

Tom Daschle, the one-time Democratic leader in the U.S. Senate, withdrew his nomination to be secretary of Health and Human Services, because it came out that he didn’t pay income tax as he was supposed to;

 

Tim Geithner, your new treasury secretary, was actually approved by the senate (thanks largely to some spineless…or themselves dishonest…Republicans), in spite of the fact that he didn’t pay self-employment taxes for several years.

I am in no way giving a pass to Republicans who don’t pay taxes as they should, but at least there’s more intellectual honesty to Republican tax dodges than there is to Democrat tax dodges.  Republicans, as a party, dislike taxes and love personal wealth, so when individual Republicans behave accordingly, they are at least acting in concert with the general ideology of the party.  It is when Democrats accumulate sickening amounts of wealth and avoid paying taxes that we should be 1,000 times more offended.  It is Democrats who champion the effort to raise taxes at every turn on us Johnny Lunchbuckets, so that government can continue handing checks out to the poor and “disadvantaged” whom Democrats profess to love…and on whose votes they count to get re-elected. 

Elite Democrats hate all of us who make up the Great Unwashed, and they do so every bit as much as does the most stereotypically snobby Republican fat-cat.  Do you think for one moment that John Kerry, Ted Kennedy, or John Edwards spends any regular time in the company of the most disadvantaged among us?  What of Daschle or Geithner?  How about President Obama?  When’s the last time he invited some representatives of society’s displaced poor to live with his family until they got back on their feet?  Remember when Bill Clinton said that he felt our pain?  Bill Clinton didn’t care at all about our pain, and shame on any voting fool who thought so.  Another elite Democrat liar.    

The truth is that people, all people, like money, and want to make and keep as much of it as is realistically possible within the realm of their own particular circumstances.  Democrats, however, can’t be honest about that, because they are brazen vote thieves.  They steal votes by pretending to care about the poor and downtrodden (who are, of course, voters), only to laugh and sneer at them behind a shield of wealth and self-instituted privilege.  They are truly, in my estimation, among the vilest of human beings.  Remember every one of them who comes up for re-election (or election) in 2010.   

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Robert G. Yetman, Jr.  Editor At Large – www.ChristianMoney.com

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