“The Life of Julia” Promotes a Lifetime of Dependency
Wednesday May 9th, 2012 • Posted by Stephanie Freedman at 2:52pm PDT • 2 Comments
“The Life of Julia” is an interactive slideshow from Barack Obama’s reelection campaign that portrays a woman living her whole life reliant on government programs. In so doing, it inadvertently exposes the cyclical effect that government “help” can produce.
Meet Julia, a girl who is automatically put into the system by being placed in the Head Start program, which costs almost 10 billion dollars a year and a tragic waste of taxpayer money. We then see her educational integrity diminished due to the need for education reform. We follow Julia through some medical issues which are financially overbearing due to the lack of competition between health care providers. The story follows her to giving birth to a son, who has a difficult time thriving in a world that is weighed down by the debt burden left to him by his mother’s generation. What is interesting about this story is how Julia becomes truly indoctrinated by the system that has inadvertently hindered her. It gives her just enough to “help” yet still leaves her dependent.
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Paul T. says:
Stephanie, thank you for bringing the “Life of Julia” to our attention. It’s by the way that the Obamacrats inadvertently reminded the public of yet another problem with Obamacare.
If women’s health care costs more, why does Obamacare compel insurers to charge men for more than their fair share of the costs? In other words, why does Obamacare coerce men to pay for some of women’s health care?
I think the answer is about as embarrassing as another issue with potential to be politically explosive.
Men tend to make more money during their lifetimes than do women, but they tend to die earlier. So women will collect old age benefits from the SSA out of proportion to their contribution. Net effect: Another transfer of wealth from men to women.
As if this weren’t bad enough, the Obamacrats relish the thought of correcting an alleged pay gap rooted in sexism. The result should not be hard to predict: Discrimination in favor of women in terms of pay and other benefits.
Oh, there’s one more thing. What’s the name of Zachary’s daddy? And what does he look like?
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All this story about the “Life of Julia” tells me is the following. 1. The Federal programs are totally outside the Constitution and therefore in my opinion illegal and should be dismantled. 2. Julia is a parasite. 3. Julia has a bastard child making her a slut. 4. All the Julias and Juluses in America who live off the government gravy train make me and other hard working Americans Tax Slaves. 5.All the Julias and Juluses in America have put me,my children,my grandchildren and the next 5 generations of my family deeply in unpayable and unsustainable debt. And finally 6. The saddest part of the “Life Of Julia” is that she votes. What we have here is a mobocracy of irresponsible buffoons who helped put into office other irresponsible politicians,both Democrats and Republicans, who have gone on to buy votes with other peoples money. Its not just the triumph of Socialism but also the conquering of America through Cultural Marxism. In the end the system will bankrupt itself and will turn America into a Police State with the Constitution and Liberty a distant memory.