Dems are ruthless, Republicans are masochists (my interpretation of this article)

THIS IS NOT MY ARTICLE: I copied it from the Web. I have held these beliefs for years but he articulates it much better than I and record it in my blog to archive it. The author is EVAN DOUGLAS SAYET.

Fight on, Trump - "You magnificent bastard" Evan Sayet, July 13, 2017

Evan Douglas Sayet is a comedian and conservative

speaker. He is the nation's leading conservative speaker, an in-demand

Master of Ceremony for Republican events. Sayet is the author of The

Kinder Garden Of Eden: How The Modern Liberal Thinks And Why He's

Convinced That Ignorance Is Bliss.

My Leftist friends (as well as many ardent #Never

Trumpers) constantly ask me if I'm not bothered by Donald Trump's lack of

decorum They ask if I don't think his tweets are "beneath the dignity

of the office." Here's my answer: We Right-thinking people have tried

dignity. There could not have been a man of more quiet dignity than

George W. Bush as he suffered the outrageous lies and politically

motivated hatreds that undermined his presidency. We tried

Statesmanship. Could there be another human being on this earth who so desperately

prized "collegiality" as John McCain? We tried propriety has there

been a nicer human being ever than Mitt Romney? And the results were

always the same This is because, while we were playing by the rules of

dignity, collegiality and propriety, the Left has been, for the past 60

years, engaged in a knife fight where the only rules are those of Saul

Alinsky author of Rules for Radicals and the Chicago mob.

I don't find anything "dignified," "collegial" or"proper" about Barack Obama's lying about what went down on the streets of Ferguson in order to ramp up racial hatreds because racial

hatreds serve the Democratic Party. I don't see anything "dignified"

in lying about the deaths of four Americans in Benghazi and

imprisoning an innocent filmmaker to cover your tracks. I don't see

anything "statesman-like" in weaponizing the IRS to be used to destroy

your political opponents and any dissent. Yes, Obama was "articulate" and "polished" but in no way was he in the least bit "dignified," "collegial" or "proper."

The Left has been engaged in a war against America since the rise of

the Children of the '60s. To them, it has been an all-out war where

nothing is held sacred and nothing is seen as beyond the pale. It has

been a war they've fought with violence, the threat of violence,

demagoguery and lies from day one to the violent take-over of the

universities till today.. The problem is that, through these years,

the Left has been the only side fighting this war. While the Left has

been taking a knife to anyone who stands in their way, the Right has

continued to act with dignity, collegiality and propriety. With Donald

Trump, this all has come to an end. Donald Trump is America 's first

wartime president in the Culture War.

During wartime, things like "dignity" and "collegiality" simply aren't

the most essential qualities one looks for in their warriors. Ulysses

Grant was a drunk whose behavior in peacetime might well have seen him  drummed out of the Army for conduct unbecoming. Had Abraham Lincoln

applied the peacetime rules of propriety and booted Grant, the

Democrats might well still be holding their slaves today. Lincoln

rightly recognized that, "I cannot spare this man. He fights.."

General George Patton was a vulgar-talking, son-of-a-bitch. In

peacetime, this might have seen him stripped of rank. But, had

Franklin Roosevelt applied the normal rules of decorum then, Hitler

and the Socialists would be five decades into their thousand-year

Reich.

Trump is fighting. And what's particularly delicious is that, like

Patton standing over the battlefield as his tanks obliterated

Rommel's, he's shouting, "You magnificent bastard, I read your book!"

That is just the icing on the cake, but it's wonderful to see that not

only is Trump fighting, he's defeating the Left using their own

tactics. That book is Saul Alinsky's Rules for Radicals a book so

essential to the Liberals' war against America that it is and was the

playbook for the entire Obama administration and the subject of

Hillary Clinton's senior thesis. It is a book of such pure evil, that,

just as the rest of us would dedicate our book to those we most love

or those to whom we are most indebted, Alinsky dedicated his book to

Lucifer.

Trump's tweets may seem rash and unconsidered but, in reality, he is

doing exactly what Alinsky suggested his followers do.

First, instead of going after "the fake media" and they are so fake that they have

literally gotten every single significant story of the past 60 years

not just wrong, but diametrically opposed to the truth, from the Tet

Offensive to Benghazi, to what really happened on the streets of

Ferguson, Missouri. Trump isolated CNN. He made it personal. Then,

just as Alinsky suggests, he employs ridicule which Alinsky described

as "the most powerful weapon of all." ... Most importantly, Trump's

tweets have put CNN in an untenable and unwinnable position. They need

to respond. This leaves them with only two choices.

They can either "go high" (as Hillary would disingenuously declare of herself and the

fake news would disingenuously report as the truth) and begin to

honestly and accurately report the news or they can double-down on

their usual tactics and hope to defeat Trump with twice their usual

hysteria and demagoguery. The problem for CNN (et al.) with the former

is that, if they were to start honestly reporting the news, that would

be the end of the Democratic Party they serve.

It is nothing but the incessant use of fake news (read:

propaganda) that keeps the Left alive. Imagine, for example, if CNN had honestly

and accurately reported then-candidate Barack Obama's close ties to

foreign terrorists (Rashid Khalidi), domestic terrorists (William

Ayers), the mafia (Tony Rezko) or the true evils of his spiritual

mentor, Jeremiah Wright's church. Imagine if they had honestly and

accurately conveyed the evils of the Obama administration's

weaponizing of the IRS to be used against their political opponents or

his running of guns to the Mexican cartels or the truth about the

murder of Ambassador Christopher Stevens and the Obama

administration's cover-up.

So, to my friends on the Left and the #Never Trumpers as well do I

wish we lived in a time when our president could be "collegial"

and "dignified" and "proper"? Of course I do. These aren't those

Times. This is war. And it's a war that the Left has been fighting without

opposition for the past 50 years. So, say anything you want about this

president - I get it - he can be vulgar, he can be crude, he can be

undignified at times. I don't care. I can't spare this man. He fights

for America!

Thank You, Kentucky for requiring Medicaid Recipients to Work for Benefits

It looks like we are recycling a work-for-benefits requirement in order to receive Medicaid.  The idea is not new but the left hates it as it diminishes the welfare class and inculcates values more in line with American productivity. A smaller recipient class might mean a few less votes for democrat candidates.

When I worked for Washington State, we evaded every opportunity to require recipients to work for benefits:

* The program “workfare” which required food stamp recipients to work for benefits magically disappeared with no public comment.

* An “assistant secretary,” one position from the top of the agency once, while red-faced, told me it was not right to require recipients to get up at 5:30 in the morning to go to work because “they are not used to it.”

* Social workers, charged with “preparing” people for work would excuse recipients from missed appointments instead of sanctioning their benefits or otherwise holding them accountable.

* Ex-governor, Mike Lowry wrote to Bill Clinton that he did not want recipients to lose benefits EVEN IF THEY CHOOSE NOT TO WORK. Literally...not my words.

* DSHS, with advocacy groups, published administrative rules diluting the intent of law with respect to receiving benefits.  Taxpayers were not included in these “negotiations.” The administrative law is designed to lose in court so the recipients end up receiving benefits with few requirements attached.

* When Clinton signed new time-limits (rarely enforced in Washington) for welfare, 20% of the caseload dropped immediately.  Senior management, you know, “the smartest people in the room,” were unwilling to admit that these people were able-bodied all along and decided to get the good jobs before there was a glut of potential competitors for the same jobs.  The agency’s reaction was to NOT reduce staff because “the remainder of the recipients are tough to employ so we need to keep the staff to prepare them for work.”  These were the same staff who excused recipients who missed appointments.

The is absolutely no justification for allowing recipients to do nothing for the benefits.  Working, as so many of us do, is not “cruel and unusual punishment” and any judicial rulings against such requirements are the result of faulty writing of law (in some cases deliberate).  The Left bellyaches about the reluctance of taxpayers to pay for a free ride without admitting that there is nothing unreasonable about requiring people to work.  I think with a Trump presidency we now have a chance to stick to the concept “there is no such thing as a free lunch.”  Forcing a welfare mom to pick up litter along the highway does two things.  It cleans up our highways and her children, watching this are going to say, “I am going to stay in school since that is not what I want to do for my working life.

Kentucky, you are the first on board.  Congratulations and stick to your guns. I am sure CA, WA, NY, CT, MA, OR and MN will be the last to join...and that is why grants are important since the smart states will make better use of theirs.

As our country grapples with how to reduce the costs of benefits this is an excellent start; the reasonable alternative to reducing medicare and social security for which the recipients pre-paid...with no choice to opt out.

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2018/01/13/kentucky-to-add-medicaid-work-requirement-first-state-to-follow-trump-plan.html