Tipping Point, aka Death Spiral

These 11 States now have More People on Welfare than they do Employed!

Last month, the Senate Budget Committee reports that in fiscal year 2011, between food stamps, housing support, child care, Medicaid and other benefits, the average U.S. household below the poverty line received $168.00 a day in government support.

What’s the problem with that much support?

Well, the median household income in America is just over $50,000, which averages out to $137.13 a day.

To put it another way, being on welfare now pays the equivalent of $30.00 an hour for a 40-hour week, while the average job pays $25.00 an hour.

Congresswoman Maxine Waters: A Liar Or Just Really Stupid?

Representative Maxine Waters (D-CA) recently said “If sequestration takes place, that’s going to be a great setback. We don’t need to be having something like sequestration that’s going to cause these job losses — over 170 million jobs that could be lost,” Waters said.

In reality, not in Maxine Waters psychosis, there are only about 135 million people working in the United State, so I guess people who are not even working are going to lose their jobs.

The Sequestration mandates an automatic cut of about $85 billion throughout the remainder of the Goverment's Fiscal Year ending Sept 30, 2013. This accounts for about 2.4 percent of the annual federal budget. One of the results of budget cuts will be that Federal Law Enforcement Officers will be forced to take between 12 to 22 days off without pay between April and September. This will be an approximate 15% to 25% pay cut for them. Funny how the Government needs to cut 2.4% but that results in a much larger percentage for men and women protecting this country.

Anyway, check out Maxine Waters in the video below. I have come to the conclusion that she did not intentionally lie, because those facts are too easy to check out. She's just plain stupid. And the bad thing is that she is the ranking Democrat on the House Financial Services Committee, which oversees all components of the nation’s housing and financial services sectors including banking, insurance, real estate, public and assisted housing, and securities.  If Democrats should gain control of the House, she would become the chairwoman.

Star Parker, Black Americans and Gun Control

This article on CNS News by Penny Starr was actually titled "Star Parker: Blacks Who Back Gun Control Need to Study History of Slavery and Jim Crow". Star Parker, founder and president of the Center for Urban Renewal and Education (CURE), is currently a regular commentator on CNN, TBN, CSPAN, CBN, and FOX News.

Articles and quotes by Star continuously appear in major publications around the world. She has written several books including Uncle Sam's Plantation and White Ghetto. Currently, Star is working on her next book: How the Poor Get Rich.

At a Friday event billed as a Black History Month press conference, Star Parker said African Americans in Congress who support gun control efforts by President Barack Obama and his administration should consider the history of blacks in this country and people around the globe who were oppressed, including being banned from owning firearms.

CNSNews.com asked Parker, who is the founder and president of the Center for Urban Renewal and Education (CURE): “There are a lot of African Americans and people of color in Congress who are backing Obama’s plan for gun control. What would you say to them because today [at this event] it was revealed that there is a direct effect on the African American community with this gun control?”

Parker said: “Well, I'd say they need to revisit their history – black history, black slave history, black Jim Crow history -- and they should visit the histories of other tyrant nations where we had people like Hitler and Stalin and Mao. Every single time there is someone who wants to take away all other rights of the people, the first right they take away is your right to bear arms.”

“I believe that the the Congressional Black community, or the Congressional Black Caucus is absolutely out of step with black America today on this issue,” Parker said.

Speakers at the event in Washington, D.C., defended the Second Amendment and its guarantee that American citizens have the right to own and bear firearms and that the government should not infringe on that right, including Ken Blackwell, chairman of the board of the Center for Urban Renewal and Education (CURE) and a board member of the National Rifle Association.

“That right to protect one’s life and liberty is a God-given right,” Blackwell said in a statement. “It is a gift from God, not a grant from government.”

Parker said her organization held the event to allow black leaders “to express our deep concern of efforts currently under way to limit our God-given and constitutional right of self-defense.”

The gun control laws that banned or put restrictions on African Americans from owning firearms in the United States are documented on a timeline from 1640 to 1995 by the National Rifle Association’s Institute of Legislative Action and can be found here.