{"id":32099,"date":"2013-01-06T23:09:12","date_gmt":"2013-01-07T06:09:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/01\/06\/takers.html"},"modified":"2013-01-06T23:09:12","modified_gmt":"2013-01-07T06:09:12","slug":"takers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/01\/06\/takers.html","title":{"rendered":"Takers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Those damned Social Security recipients. They&#39;re a blight on our society, a drain on our precious tax dollars, and should certainly consider workhouses and\/or decreasing the surplus population\u00a0(cf. Scrooge) rather than continuing to depend on a program that can only continue to function a few decades from now if we, say, stop capping the maximum amount that the wealthy are required to contribute each year to SSI.<\/p>\n<p>I mean, if they were <i>real<\/i> American, they&#39;d have jobs. Or family to take care of them. Or local churches to give them canned goods once a week. Or something. Just don&#39;t keep spending my hard-earned tax dollars on them. Damned Takers.<\/p>\n<div><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/photos\/101083456815352083930\/albums\/5830585146921088481\/5830585144631637586?authkey=CJrg9rLEnK7Z9wE'><img src='https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/-otIz_Lu9JIQ\/UOpmTBpwNlI\/AAAAAAAARB0\/l_J0mAX60jo\/ssi%2Bbreakout.jpg' style='max-width:97.5%;clear:both;' border='0' \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'> <strong>Google+:<\/strong> <a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/VcxuR1o8x7t' target='_new'>View post on Google+<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Those damned Social Security recipients. They&#39;re a blight on our society, a drain on our precious tax dollars, and should certainly consider workhouses and\/or decreasing the surplus population\u00a0(cf. Scrooge) rather than continuing to depend on a program that can only continue to function a few decades from now if we, say, stop capping the maximum &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/01\/06\/takers.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Takers&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":133675,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/06\/14\/the-poor-pay-a-lot-of-taxes-too.html","url_meta":{"origin":32099,"position":0},"title":"The poor pay a lot of taxes, too","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 14-Jun-17 9:40am","format":false,"excerpt":"The \"makers vs takers\" mind-set imagines poor people as proverbial \"Welfare Queens,\" living high off the hog, taking from the wealth of Good, Honest, Hard-Working Americans and giving nothing in return.But that picture only takes into account income taxes, where the poorest often fall below the threshold. Low-income people still\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":30617,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/10\/16\/superman-commie-pinko-enabler-of-takers.html","url_meta":{"origin":32099,"position":1},"title":"Superman: Commie Pinko Enabler of &quot;Takers&quot;","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 16-Oct-12 3:53pm","format":false,"excerpt":"\"Hop on the Welfare Wagon\"? \u00a0It's positively Un-American! Clearly our current president\/dictator-in-chief\u00a0traveled in time and tried to establish his whole Death Panelly 47%-Indulging Obamacare Evilness all the way back in 1952. \u00a0And roped Superman into his Euro-Socialist Anti-Colonialist Diabolical Scheme as well! 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And \"takers\" who threaten to use force are hooligans and \"thugs\". \u00a0But when some guy stops paying to graze his cattle on federal land and then starts talking revolution and guns ... suddenly he's the Right Wing's\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":19457,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2010\/12\/06\/unblogged-bits-mon-6-dec-10-1030.html","url_meta":{"origin":32099,"position":3},"title":"Unblogged Bits (Mon.  6-Dec-10 1030)","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 6-Dec-10 10:30am","format":false,"excerpt":"Links (most recent first) that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries .... Frank Rich on Obama and the Stockholm Syndrome - Ah. It become clear. You don't negotiate with hostage-takers ... unless you're one of the hostages yourself. 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