It was discovered by the Daily Caller this week that Republican Party frontrunner Donald Trump is being politically advised by Barry Bennett. Just who is this Bennett that we speak of?
He was hired by a telephone company to promote Obamaphones and paint the program as something to help veterans. The ads engulfed the airwaves in Washington, D.C. It was meant to encourage Republicans to turn the other cheek over the scandal-laden program because it was targeted towards those returning from the wars.
Speaking in an interview with the Washington Examiner in 2014, Bennett explained that he supports those types of welfare programs “because I don’t hate poor people.”
“As conservatives, we can’t hate Obama so badly that we hate something just because he put his name next to it,” said Bennett, who is a counselor and resource to Trump’s top campaign aides. “If it were called Obama-food stamps, would conservatives want to do away with them?”
Essentially, his entire premise is that foes of entitlement programs and welfare initiatives detest the poor. However, it’s the proponents of these ideas who actually detest the impecunious in our society by exploiting them and taking advantage of them.
Here is what world-renowned economist Walter Block wrote in his magnum opus “Defending the Undefendable“:
“…’charitable’ institutions such as workmen’s compensation, collective bargaining in labor, unemployment insurance, and welfare programs were begun not by advocates of the poor, as is universally accepted, but by the rich. These programs promote their own class interests. The aim of this state-corporate charity system is not to redistribute wealth from rich to poor, but to buy up the potential leaders of the poor and tie them to the hegemony of the ruling class, while maintaining an intellectual class determined to convince in unwary public that government charity actually benefits them.
“In like manner, Piven and Cloward point out in Regulating the Poor that the ‘charitable’ institution of welfare serves not mainly to aid the poor, but rather to suppress them. The modus operandi here is to allow the welfare rolls to increase not in times of great need, but in times of social upheaval, and to decrease the welfare rolls not in times of plenty, but in times of social transquility. Thus the welfare system is a kind of ‘bread and circus’ method of controlling the masses.”
Whenever a politician, political insider, activist or elitist talks about welfare and the poor then just remember the wise words of Block.
Just further proof that their is a “ruling Class” which utilizes the Professional Political Class for a larger agenda.
Control of the People is the main goal, and the People willingly go along with it.
Trump utilizing such “advisers” shows that he also is in cahoots with the Ruling Class Elitist and is using the Peoples anger and frustrations to advance the agenda that he is probably well aware of , and by extention of his “financial position” in the business world, a part of.
Trump just wants more power to do what’s good for Trump. To believe that he wants this power for the betterment of all Americans runs contrary to his entire business career.
The Tea-partiers are so disillusioned with establishment Republican politicians on tax and government spending issues that they will support just about anyone who runs for the Republican nomination who isn’t an establishment candidate.
Trump has a shameful history of promoting eminent domain abuse for the purpose of seizing property from homeowners and businesses who refuse to sell to him. I worked in NYC for most of the time that Trump was building his empire. He destroyed buildings that had historic value. He would routinely hire sub-contractors to work on his buildings, and then would refuse to pay them the agreed-upon compensation. He would pay them 50% of what they had agreed, and then he would challenge them to sue him (suing is very costly and few sub-contractors could afford it).
Did you read and see how Trump bullied his way to getting land in Scotland for a golf course that promised 700 jobs (maybe 70 jobs were created) as well as other issues? There was a documentary about the Scotland fiasco he should be tarred and feathered for what he did.
Fighting Trump (2011) – short documentary on Donald Trump’s Scottish golf development in Menie
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ADecI4xw-yg
Police ‘sided with Trump’ in golf course row
http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/13116768.Police__sided_with_Trump__in_golf_course_row/
Trump stated in defense of one eminent domain , “government wants to build a tremendous economic development, where a lot of people are going to be put to work and … create thousands upon thousands of jobs and beautification and lots of other things”. His past record in his business dealings says more about his stance toward the ‘little people’ than any blathering he’s doing now. He’s counting on voters ignorance and laughing all the way to the nomination.
Trump spilled out many attractive reasons for seizing a person’s property, all the while ignoring and trampling on individual rights. Behavior reminiscent of totalitarianism. It underlines his I-want-this-so-get-out-of-my-way run for the GOP nomination.
Big business loves government. They love government because they can buy it off and use it to crush their smaller competition. Government is the tool that big business and to a lesser extent, big labor, use to make sure that no upstarts can arise to challenge their supremacy. Big banks are the prime example. Government is merely the shadow cast by big business.