Look at the bright side. Some of the money Big Government loots from your paycheck via taxation and your savings via inflation provides others with enjoyable tropical vacations:

Massachusetts welfare recipients have been using their EBT cards while on tropical vacations to Hawaii, the Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico, and other trips thousands of miles away from their home state, an investigation by the Boston Herald revealed.

While the federal and state governments spent $3 billion on the taxpayer-funded EBT cards in Massachusetts during Fiscal Year 2024, 32 charges were made in Hawaii…

It makes the heart bleed to imagine the downtrodden of Massachusetts having to venture all the way to Hawaii in search of affordable bread for their children.

EBT recipients in the blue state have spent taxpayer dollars in virtually every U.S. state, and all over tourist hotspots in Florida and California.

If we can’t stop its growth, government will eventually force other people to pay for everything. Then there will be no need for anyone to work. Liberal utopia will have been achieved.

On tips from Barry A and WDS 2.0.

Muslims have been trying to eradicate Western Civilization for 1,400 years. At first they largely succeeded, violently driving Christianity from the Middle East and even conquering Constantinople, the capitol of Christendom for a thousand years after the decline of Rome. For the past few centuries, they fell so far behind the West that it seemed they would never finish Mohammad’s mission. But then came moonbattery, featuring open borders and the welfare state:

The cultural consequence:

What they did to Constantinople’s Hagia Sophia, they will soon do to Westminster Abbey.

On tips from WDS 2.0.

The latest new vocabulary term in the Newspeak Dictionary is “humanitarian entrant.” This might be defined as “an illegal alien upon whom Democrats are showering your money”:

PRUCOL stands for “permanent residence under color of law.” It pertains only to free money eligibility, not to actual immigration status. Moochers from abroad can be illegal aliens and still have PRUCOL status.

What’s the difference between “undocumented people” (i.e., foreign invaders acknowledged to be in the USA illegally), PROCUL people, and “humanitarian entrants”? You would have to ask one of the termites comprising the federal bureaucracy.

Democrats didn’t like it when slavery was abolished in this country the century before last. So they instituted a new form of slavery, via the welfare state. You work so that “humanitarian entrants” from other countries don’t have to.

On a tip from R F.

New York State isn’t the only liberal jurisdiction that has escalated the tactic of handing out free money. As usual, San Francisco is among the leaders in the race to ruin:

Mayor London Breed … and Supervisor Matt Dorsey penned a bill called “Cash Not Drugs” which proposes handing out $100, in the form of a gift card or electronic benefit transfer, to some welfare recipients for each negative drug test they complete a week, they announced Monday.

It is the constant infusion of other people’s money that enables their irresponsible drug-oriented lifestyle in the first place.

This is the brightest idea since San Francisco decided to pay criminals $300+/month not to shoot people.

On a tip from Jack D.

The welfare state exists to confiscate wealth from those who create it to buy votes from those who don’t. Aside from our quasi-Marxist rulers, who benefits most from this system? Let’s ask Harrison Deah of General Assistance and Social Services for Westbrook, Maine:

Ninety to 95% of the welfare department’s “clients” are “New Mainers.” To translate out of liberal Euphemese, in the context of the massive ongoing invasion Biden has facilitated, this means they are overwhelmingly illegal aliens.

It can be assumed that Westbrook is no outlier, and that a similar state of affairs prevails in small towns throughout the country. The situation in big cities is even worse.

The American people are being forced to finance their own conquest and displacement. Our ancestors would have fought to the last man before submitting to this.

On a tip from R F.

After opening the border and inviting millions upon millions to flood in from the Third World to displace us, our arrogant rulers are treating the invaders to prepaid debit cards, to be financed by taxpayers:

Migrant families in New York city have begun receiving prepaid debit cards as part of a controversial scheme that could see them receive up to $18,200 a year. …

Mayor Eric Adams is pressing ahead with the $53 million scheme, despite a furious backlash…

A family of four with two children could receive up to $350 per week…

More motivation to drop those anchor babies quickly. Democrats want their offspring on the voter rolls ASAP.

Don’t worry, all the money will be spent appropriately:

Participants will also have to sign an affidavit swearing they will only use the cards for food or baby supplies at the risk of being removed from the program.

They would invade our country in contravention of our laws to effectively enslave us via the welfare state, but they would never sign an affidavit and then cheat.

In case you aren’t enraged yet, here’s what our liberal rulers think of our intelligence:

Adams insists the debit cards will save the city $600,000 a month…

Haven’t you heard? Wasting money saves money.

That must be why liberals let the numberless hordes of illegal aliens invade in the first place: so as to save money by showering it upon them.

You can’t blame Democrats for thinking the public is witless. After all, people voted for Adams.

Chances are good you didn’t vote for him. Nonetheless, you will help pick up the tab for his moonbattery when New York inevitably spends itself into bankruptcy and gets bailed out by the federal government. This will be financed largely through inflation.

Adams’ decision to award the contract for the debit cards to Mobility Capital Finance on an emergency basis without competitive bids from other companies has also raised eyebrows.

This company defines itself with the slogan, FINTECH FOR AN EQUITABLE SOCIETY. That is, it is run by Marxists, just like New York.

This closely related story will surprise no one:

The New York City Council is begging an appellate court to authorize more than 800,000 foreign nationals to vote in the city’s municipal elections.

At the state level, to make sure the “newcomers” know who to vote for,

New York Democrat Gov. Kathy Hochul has proposed $2.4 billion in spending for migrants…

At the national level, Biden continues to reward the illegal aliens he invited to invade and move them toward the voter rolls.

It has been said that democracy only works until people realize they can vote themselves largesse out of the public treasury. As it is turning out for us, it only works until one party figures out it can import a vast and explosively reproducing underclass that will largely subsist on that largesse. In either case, economic collapse is inevitable, followed by an authoritarian form of government.

On tips from Chuck A, Ed McAninch, Wiggins, and WDS 2.0.

As the great Milton Friedman observed, “It’s just obvious you can’t have free immigration and a welfare state.” Try it and you will have an ever-expanding population of parasites who refuse to work while ever more foreigners must be imported to get menial work done. Consider meatpacking:

For politicians in Washington and New York City, an unprecedented stream of asylum seekers presents an intractable problem with no easy answers. For companies like Tyson Foods Inc., struggling to fill unpleasant jobs with a US unemployment rate of 3.9%, this new population presents an alluring opportunity.

“Asylum seeker” is Liberalese for illegal alien. The unemployment rate refers to people who are looking for work; it does not include people who are paid not to work.

“We would like to employ another 42,000 if we could find them,” said Garrett Dolan, who leads Tyson’s efforts to eliminate employment barriers such as immigration status or the need for childcare.

Another 42,000 should be easy to find with Biden’s handlers in power and the border wide open.

When the current workforce figures out they can make a comparable living voting instead of working for a living complements of lavishly generous welfare programs, we can just import still more coolies from the Third World.

Liberals love the word “sustainable.” Yet they never apply it to economics or demographics.

On a tip from Wiggins.

It’s a great scam, and the entire planet knows about it. Sneak across the undefended US border, drop an anchor baby, and you are set for life:

That’s how illegal aliens manage to collect more welfare than American citizens. The arrangement works great for freeloaders from across the Third World and for Democrats determined to eradicate America through demographic displacement.

It does not work so well for those of us effectively enslaved by our government to finance our own cultural genocide.

On a tip from Bluto.

According to government-affiliated public broadcasting, debt is good, because it is savings. This is fortunate, because bribing the Third World to pour across the undefended border to displace us out of existence is going to cost more than even the Uniparty could raise by taxation:

The Heritage Foundation has details on…

…the relative size of the expansion of the welfare state under the TRAFWA, the bill’s weakening of work requirements, its contribution to excessive benefits, its subsidization of illegal immigrants, its embrace of liberal priorities, and the harm it would cause to marriage and families.

The millions upon millions of illegal aliens flooding the country in the largest invasion in human history already consume more welfare benefits than American citizens. Just wait until we get bipartisan immigration reform.

On a tip from WDS 2.0.

The largest invasion in human history is also the largest looting spree. Among the findings of a report based on data from the 2022 Survey of Income and Program Participation are these:

• The 2022 SIPP indicates that 54 percent of households headed by immigrants — naturalized citizens, legal residents, and illegal immigrants — used one or more major welfare program. This compares to 39 percent for U.S.-born households.

• The rate is 59 percent for non-citizen households (e.g. green card holders and illegal immigrants).

No evidence was found that this is due to fraud.

• Illegal immigrants can receive welfare on behalf of U.S.-born children, and illegal immigrant children can receive school lunch/breakfast and WIC directly. A number of states provide Medicaid to some illegal adults and children, and a few provide SNAP. Several million illegal immigrants also have work authorization (e.g. DACA, TPS, and some asylum applicants) allowing receipt of the EITC.

Even if they work, they still collect welfare, as they do even if they don’t have kids and even if they have education credentials:

• Immigrant households without children, as well as those with high incomes and those headed by immigrants with at least a bachelor’s degree, tend to be more likely to use welfare than their U.S.-born counterparts.

Sometimes Democrats/the media pretend that illegals are prevented from suckling at the teat of the Welfare State; however,

• Most new legal immigrants are barred from most programs, as are illegal immigrants, but this has a modest impact primarily because: 1) Immigrants can receive benefits on behalf of U.S.-born children; 2) the bar does not apply to all programs, nor does it apply to non-citizen children in some cases; 3) most legal immigrants have lived here long enough to qualify for welfare; 4) some states provide welfare to otherwise ineligible immigrants on their own; 5) by naturalizing, immigrants gain full welfare eligibility.

An obvious conclusion is drawn:

Given their welfare use rates, knowledge of government programs is clearly extensive in immigrant communities.

No doubt the ins and outs of our extravagantly generous welfare system are common knowledge in places like Haiti and central Africa, where it would be virtually impossible to make as much by working as undocumented Democrats can make here by producing babies out of wedlock.

In the long term, we will be displaced by the millions upon millions of moochers leftists like Biden have been importing from the Third World. In the short term, we will be literally enslaved by them. What else would you call it when, on a coercive basis, someone else receives the wealth you produce?

On a tip from R F.

Under leftists, our benevolent impulses are subverted and turned against us, and we are alienated from each other. This story suggests how things used to work, prior to the welfare state:

On a tip from WDS. Hat tip: Area Ocho.