Obama Promises Women A Lifetime Of Dependence
Investor's Business Daily
Posted 05/03/2012 07:11 PM ET
http://news.investors.com/article/610276/201205031911/obama-life-of-julia-campaign-for-government-dependence.htm
Election 2012: The Obama campaign website has a feature that's supposed to show how his policies will help a fictional "Julia" during her life. What it really shows is Obama's vision of cradle-to-grave government dependency.
The campaign's "Life of Julia" interactive feature tries to depict how Obama would help, and Romney would hurt, women in America.
It's so ridiculously amateurish, you have to wonder who's in charge of the $170 million the campaign has spent.
Still, it provides a window into Obama's warped worldview — one in which everything good that happens in America is due to some federal program or other.
Julia, for example, gets a good start on education only because of Head Start, and does well on her SATs only because of Obama's education programs.
She manages to get into college thanks to still more federal help. And when she gets a job, she can "focus on her work" because under ObamaCare "health insurance is required to cover birth control."
The feature goes on until, after Julia spends the rest of her career dependent on government, Social Security lets "her retire comfortably, without worrying that she'll run out of savings."
That's Obama's vision, anyway. Here's what Julia's life will really be like under his policies:
She'll start life by personally inheriting $1.5 million in federal debt, a third of which is due to Obama's reckless spending policies.
If she's like most kids, her public school education will have been hampered by Obama's union pals. And her college costs will likely be out of reach because of Obama-favored federal aid programs that have fueled tuition inflation.
If she graduates, she'll find she has a 50% chance of not getting a job, thanks to Obama's lousy economic recovery. And she'll be forced to buy insurance, whether she wants it or not, thanks to ObamaCare's mandate.
Should Julia be dumb enough to try to start a business, she'll likely be dragged down by an avalanche of government red tape.
If she still manages to be successful, Obama will tax most of her earnings away, making it less likely that she'll be able to hire the next Julia in line.
Then, when Julia makes it to retirement, she'll find Medicare and Social Security broke, since Obama refuses to offer any meaningful entitlement improvements.
So, good luck, Julia.
You'll definitely need it if Obama is re-elected.
The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted. ~ D.H. Lawrence
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