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New reports show culture of dependency beneath Idaho’s welfare ‘safety net’

Reprinted with permission of the Idaho Freedom Foundation New data reveals most able-bodied adults on Idaho’s welfare programs are not working, and enrollees tend to remain on the books for years—not weeks or months. By supporting increasingly generous benefits, taxpayers are funding a lifestyle hidden in the guise of a social safety net. It is […]

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John Livingston

The Idaho Ministry of Plenty (And Still No Audits)

We are certainly living in a dystopian upside-down world that was anticipated in George Orwell’s NINETEEN EIGHTY-FOUR. With that classic novel in mind, I would like to respectfully submit to Idahoans and especially our political leaders a plan to restructure our state government based on the “Orwellian Model” The Ministry of Truth, the Ministry of Peace, the Ministry […]

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Democrats and Welfare Rats

Recently our president, Donald John Trump, was booed at a baseball game in Washington, D.C. With the typically bad taste and poor manners of left-wing progressive socialists, they yelled, “Lock him up. Lock him up.” It was a coarse imitation of the president’s 2016 campaign comments where he threatened to ‘lock up‘ a known felon, […]

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Bob's Words of Wisdom News

Socialism is here – You Just Don’t Recognize It

Socialism has been a part of our government structure since FDR who was the first president to introduce social programs in the nineteen hundreds. Let’s take a look back into his history and see some of the social programs instituted by him and other past presidents. In the first New Deal, FDR introduced the Agricultural […]

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What if we were no longer ‘Hyphenated-Americans’… just American citizens, period?

ISSUE: Decades of “Diversity” have caused classification of American citizens into competing groups based upon ethnicity, skin tone, sexual preferences, etc. We are Black Americans, Native Americans, LGBT, ad infinitum. “More than good motives should be required when government seeks to allocate its resources by way of an explicit racial classification system… the basic principle […]

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