Welfare for the rich.... but if you're poor and go bankrupt it's because you didn't work hard enough?

No, it's more like you didn't have the good sense to inherit a beer distributorship.

I did come across a LA Times article that said that Cindy McCain was hooked on prescription drugs, and used her subordinates at her charity to obtain them. I'll look for the citation and get back to you. She got a diversion program. You and I would still be out of circulation and unable to spread vicious lies on Yahoo!Answers.

Time for some simple lessons.

First, any time the government gives money to a person or business does not mean it is 'welfare' or that it is socialist. For example, it is acceptable within a capitalist system to pay for goods and services (hell, it is required). Every time the government spends money for services to benefit some or all citizens, it is not necessarily 'welfare' or some kind of hand out. Police, Fire, and EMT protections are provided for the common good by the government, paid for with money obtained through taxes. So are the Coast Guard and the Armed Services.

When social services and 'welfare' programs were started, they were (and mostly still are) intended to save the government money in the long run by helping people who were financially in bad shape (usually through no fault of their own) get back on their feet and become productive members of society (i.e. - consumers). Without enough real consumers to buy the vast majority of goods and services, the economy grinds to a halt. The theory is sound, but the actual practice has become corrupted by bureaucrats and politics into a straight hand-out for anyone who asks for it - whether they deserve it or not. At least there is now a fixed time limit for how long each person can remain on AFDC/FIP/TANF or whatever acronym is used in your state these days.

The theory behind the handouts for wealthy corporations and individuals to 'save the economy' is that these players in the economy are so big and so important to the economic health of the nation that allowing them to fall would cause a catastrophic mess economically. Like consumers, any vital economy needs financial institutions to facilitate the accumulation and distribution of capital to create, expand and run businesses, as well as to provide for retirement of consumers who invest wisely. There is the feeling - similar to those about 'welfare mothers' and such - that these financial institutions are abusing the 'safety net' that our government is providing. The difference is one of scale: a few thousand abusers of the welfare system for families may cost the government a couple of million or so. Just a few abusers of the 'corporate welfare' system easily costs hundreds of millions - or billions.

Neither is inherently wrong or a 'threat to the American way of life' as such, but abuse of any program (no matter how well-intentioned nor how effectively monitored) can become such a threat.

The wealthy are far more educated in the ways to take advantage of the 'system' than the poor and middle class, and they have far more 'friends in high places' to give them inside tips and unfair advantages that the average American never has.

It is incredibly hypocritical of the "right" - who always side with the wealthy over the poor - to complain about one welfare system while sucking strenuously from another.

Read the North Korean Socialist Democrat Republic's constitution which embodies the idea of and guidance by Comrade Kim Il Sung.

It will not require much reading at all until one realizes Obama's ideology sound just like it.

If you perfer to have the same or very similar conditions that are in North Korean here in the US in a relatively short period of time then support this ideology.

it may not be propaganda but it is socialism. Socialism, economic and social system under which essential industries and social services are publicly and cooperatively owned and democratically controlled with a view to equal opportunity and equal benefit for all. As defined by http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761577990/Soci... despite what free marketteers say socialism is good

this mentality was introduced long ago by another president. appparently the bs worked- so it is still used.

why reinvent the wheel?,it's easier for politicians to recycle bs which has proven to be effective in the past

This is all scare tactics to keep the wealthy rich.

All the "tax the business owner more, he'll move out of the U.S."....yet they tell us "libs" to move if we don't like America.

They're all walking contradictions.