This is unreal, but another example of the creeping Socialist/Marxist direction America is going in. In the Radical Neo-Marxist state of Massachusetts, Gov. Deval Patrick is giving cars to welfare recipients.
Free cars for poor fuel road rage
Gov. Deval Patrick’s free wheels for welfare recipients program is revving up despite the stalled economy, as the keys to donated cars loaded with state-funded insurance, repairs and even AAA membership are handed out to get them to work.
But the program – fueled by a funding boost despite the state’s fiscal crash – allows those who end up back on welfare to keep the cars anyway.
“It’s mind-boggling. You’ve got people out there saying, ‘I just lost my job. Hey, can I get a free car, too?’ ” said House Minority Leader Brad Jones (R-North Reading).
This just pisses me off. Why should the government give away cars to people collecting money from tax payers? This is wrong and setting a bad example. Why not provide everyone with HDTVs and Blu-Ray Players also? Why stop at cars, how about a free boat also? This is disturbing, but it seems the public wants this.
Tags: Deval Patrick, Marxism, Massachusetts, Socialism, Welfare
Good God! Massachusetts just keeps on going from bad to worse.
Cars and cell phones. And I have to keep working my ass off to pay for mine and theirs.
The left claim they are all about fairness. What’s fair about that?
The governments giving away HDTV’s?
Where?
M,
This really angers me. I have to work pay for my car insurance, mortgage and electricity. Meanwhile these peopel most of whom have alcohol and drug problems get cars. This makes me angry.
3. BuddyG,
That will be the next thing they give away. You will not get any since you work. If you go on welfare, then you will get an HDTV.
Excuse me while I go speak with my boss !
BuddyG,
LOL! Yeah tell him you quit because the government will take care of you. This really pisses me off.
Wow! They didn’t have that even in most “advanced” Socialist/Marxist states. It is some kind of new Ultra-Marxism not seen ever before…
Rodan,
Victor Hanson’s latest essay is relevant for this thread:
Nothing New Under The Sun
Excerpt
I think everyone is overreacting. It’s not like the cars came with a GPS
Oh to be unemployed and in Mass. I work my backside off to afford piece of crap cars that I pay cash for, and over there… they’re giving away nicer cars than I’ll EVER own… to people who don’t work for them.
I guess the left is all about equality… but some folks are just a little more equal than the rest
I am really angry after reading this article about teachers being paid not to teach in yesterday’s Los Angeles Times. This country is going insane.
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-teachers6-2009may06,0,3038809.story
11. LanceKates
My first car was a ‘79 Ford Pinto with wood grain sides. Burned more oil than gas. It was a piece of sh*t but gosh darnit it was mine!
12. N.C. from your link:
What tha?!
Oh great, now I have to get laid off, move to Massachusetts, and get on the Welfare train….then can I have a Corvette?
Oh yeah, if that doesn’t work, I will move to LA and become a teacher….
Wow this video is coming true:
Hope And Change, Fulfilled
You go girl!
haha
Oh man. Don’t people know that the state *never* gives people anything, but only “transfers” from one hand to another one?
Think of this: someone made those cars. Who will pay for them? The state? But the state’s money is PUBLIC money, which means, that someone is loosing money while the communists are handling out cars to those who can’t (or won’t) work. Who will pay the work of those who built the cars?
Socialism doesn’t work, for crying out loud!
14. m
THAT’S what I was telling you about over the phone yesterday!
And then there is that guy who takes a nappie at precisely 1pm.
That’s how powerful the teachers union ia out here in L.A.
18. savage
That’s frikken nuts!
It is because of programs like this that democrats get elected and re-elected all over the country. Seems like everybody wants a free ride and the government is more than happy to give it to them with no concern at all for the debt we are piling up. When will the average working class people wake up to this nonsense and say enough is enough. The Tea Parties were a start, but that movement needs to grow much larger to have an impact.
Tunnelrat, I hope they do!
This is stupid! Gov. Patrick needs to resign. He has no idea how to govern and this one of many issues that proves it! Patrick and Obama need to go! Neither on of these guys gives a damn about the people of the state/country. They only care about taking our hard earned money.
Only thing I have to say is there needs to be a military takeover of the United States before there is a civil war.
Execute these liberals for treason.
Reading the linked article should make your incredulity & anger lower a lot – these are not new cars bought by the government, or even used cars, but clunkers donated to charity (for a tax-write off). The Mass. government is, however, footing the bill for the other stuff. Also:
Apparently, the idea is to get them off the welfare rolls, which actually is something we should encourage among the libs. We just need to complain that they’re giving these clunkers to welfare cases rather than having some sort of temporary loan/lease arrangement until they can afford their own.
I moved from this state. I could not believe the attitude they have that my labor gives others benefit and I really should like it. Adams would be crazy if he saw what they did to his country
Read the article, they do NOT give away the cars. They pay for insurance, registration, and repairs. So that people can, you know, drive to work.
Once you get outside of the Boston Metro Area, public transit just isn’t that great in MA. People need cars to work. Getting people off the welfare roles is a good thing.
A program to loan the car wouldn’t work, because they aren’t giving the car away. They are only paying the fees. And if the person goes back on welfare after losing their job, the state stops paying the fees.
I’m gonna quit my job, move to Mass., get the car, sign up for welfare, and have them mail it to me at my town home in West Palm Beach, FL – ’cause winters suck in Mass.
What???!!! No GPS?? Forget it. I’m not leaving California for nothing. Generalisimo Obamanista’s going to give us billions cause we’re going to give Service Employees International Union members a raise! Then the union can give millions back to re-elect The Messiah.
14. m on 7 May, 2009 at 9:33 am
Regarding your question, it means that once a teacher is accused of some wrong doing, he can contest it and meanwhile he will be “housed”, meaning doing nothing but getting paid. The process can last years so these teachers are being paid not to teach.
This better not happen in Maine! I will report every welfare abuser that I know and then find the ones I don’t know and report them! lazy SOBs
Well this IS the CHANGE some people voted for…
As for me the eldest of 7 kids (yes a poor family), at 16 I began working part time til I finished h.s. I walked two miles (each way) and back to my first job for 3 years, and another year to a slightly better than min. wage job that was a mile away before I saved enough to buy and pay for the expenses for my first car. Then I started to save for college…to make a long story short I worked hard for what I own and I think I am a better person for it, as are my siblings whom are all significantly better off as adults than we were as kids by the simple virtue of our hard work. The liberal liars pretend they are doing welfare recipients a favor by getting them ADDICTED to government handouts. In return they expect votes from their welfare ADDICTs who have been conditioned to be afraid they won’t make it without the government teat to suck upon. This is reprehensible. There is a difference between giving someone a hand up and a hand out. One leads to self respect, the other to self loathing.
Worse still, the welfare state mentality will ultimately lead to the downfall of our nation, but I am hardly the first to say so… “The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not.” – Thomas Jefferson