http://www.arktimes.com/ArkansasBlog/archives/2013/02/11/vice-president-cotton-sounds-the-welfare-cadillac-trumpet Comments On: Vice President Cotton sounds the welfare Cadillac trumpet by Max Brantley en-us Copyright 2013 Arkansas Times. All rights reserved. This RSS file is offered to individuals, Arkansas Times readers, and non-commercial organizations only. Any commercial websites wishing to use this RSS file, please contact Arkansas Times. robert@arktimes.com (Arkansas Times Webmaster) Sat, 25 May 2013 00:00:01 -0500 Sat, 25 May 2013 07:15:00 -0500 Foundation http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Posted by terry b]]> Tue, 12 Feb 2013 20:49:00 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by ozarkrazo]]> Mon, 11 Feb 2013 18:58:32 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by RYD]]> Mon, 11 Feb 2013 18:36:48 -0600 Arkansas Times
An old, draft-dodging, dope-smoking, long-haired hippie advising Republicans. How poetic.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/02/11/1…
Posted by eLwood]]> Mon, 11 Feb 2013 15:55:06 -0600 Arkansas Times
There are a few shoals that we have to navigate around that could trip us up---climate change and water shortages are just two. Repubs won't even admit that they exist so they aren't likely to provide a steady hand on the tiller.
Posted by the outlier]]> Mon, 11 Feb 2013 15:26:10 -0600 Arkansas Times
Answer: Hide his TV remote so he can't watch Faux Propaganda.

Question: How do you keep Saline/Ev misinformed?

Answer: Give him back his TV remote.
Posted by Sound Policy]]> Mon, 11 Feb 2013 15:13:13 -0600 Arkansas Times
INFLATION! That giant wave of inflation that was going to grip the nation.

How's that working out for you, SR?
Posted by eLwood]]> Mon, 11 Feb 2013 14:39:33 -0600 Arkansas Times
Outlier, Saline cannot deal in facts. I suppose, like Lite Gov Darr, someone else is watching the dough at his broom and squeegee shop. I wouldn't trust him with it.
Posted by eLwood]]> Mon, 11 Feb 2013 14:12:19 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by Verla Sweere]]> Mon, 11 Feb 2013 13:39:05 -0600 Arkansas Times On Sept 1, 2012 Dan Mitchell of the Cato Institute wrote:
I wrote yesterday that the United Kingdom is doomed because there isn’t a political party with the vision or courage to restrain the welfare state.

At various points, I’ve also expressed pessimism about the future of France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Ireland, and even the United States.

Simply stated, almost all western nations suffer from the same toxic combination of dependency, demographic decline, and poorly structured entitlement programs.
http://thedailyhatch.org/2013/01/17/greece…
Posted by SalineRepublican]]> Mon, 11 Feb 2013 13:38:34 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by patience]]> Mon, 11 Feb 2013 11:42:43 -0600 Arkansas Times
And Cotton for VP, it is time for him to rbe recalled to active duty because he was so damn brave always running into the fire to show everyone else how it is done. Maybe start with Syria since the Tea Pot brains want someone, certainly not any of them, to go and start another war because MIC profits are down.
Posted by couldn't be better]]> Mon, 11 Feb 2013 11:39:44 -0600 Arkansas Times
Saline/Ev, I've just got to ask if you are Tommy Cotton's butt boy. You're sure in love with him.

And quoting the Heritage Foundation? That's downright funny.
Posted by Sound Policy]]> Mon, 11 Feb 2013 11:24:43 -0600 Arkansas Times
I can't remember how long it took to get the job growth onto the positive side. It didn't happen over night and could NOT have happened over night.

The U.S. economy is like a fully loaded oil tanker. It takes 5.5 miles to bring one to a full stop and I don't know how many miles to turn it around.

Expecting instantaneous results is moronic. Have there been missteps? Yes. It's hard not to make missteps in uncharted waters.

I shudder to think where we would be today with McCain/Palin or Romney/Ryan at the helm. For sure we would be at war in other places. For sure the pain and suffering of little folks would be a whole lot worse. For sure the rich would be even richer than they are under present conditions.

Not enough is being done about income disparities. Not enough is being done on the health care issue. A whole lot more IS being done than the party of the rich would do.
Posted by the outlier]]> Mon, 11 Feb 2013 11:16:46 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by Quid pro quo]]> Mon, 11 Feb 2013 10:57:51 -0600 Arkansas Times
Rachel Sheffield of the Heritage Foundation has noted:

The number of Americans on food stamps (or, as it is now called, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP) is higher than ever before, according to a new Congressional Budget Office report. Since 2007, rolls have grown by 70 percent. And participation rates are expected to increase over the next two years.

While some of the growth can be attributed to the recession, participation rates were steadily climbing prior to the recession. Since 2000, the number of Americans on food stamps has jumped by roughly 260 percent, from 17.2 million to 44.7 million in 2011.

Naturally, government spending on food stamps has also jumped, from approximately $20 billion in 2000 to a whopping $78 billion last year, a nearly 400 percent increase.

DAN MITCHELL’S BLOG HAS A GREAT CARTOON THAT SHOWS WHAT EVENTUALLY WILL HAPPEN IF THE GOVERNMENT CONTINUES TO INCREASE THE WELFARE STATE!!!

http://thedailyhatch.org/2013/02/11/carton…
Posted by SalineRepublican]]> Mon, 11 Feb 2013 10:40:38 -0600 Arkansas Times
Arkansas = Tom Cotton = ideological war = rigid = impervious = ideology = obedience = eternal laws = Almighty God = goat = intransigence

And that's just in the above two paragraphs.

Repeat ad infinitum in almost daily news cycles lately, to yield:

Arkansas = Mike Huckabee = ban on abortion = war on women = family values = pro-life = transvaginal probe = heartbeat bill = rural = poverty = guns in church = charter schools = Waltons = Kochs = Tea Party = lies

Do Arkansas's would-be economic and political movers and shakers get the picture yet?

Do they even care?

Do voters?
Posted by Norma Bates]]> Mon, 11 Feb 2013 09:59:27 -0600 Arkansas Times