Welfare for the Poor has now become CORPORATE WELFARE!

America has been gutting its already-threadbare social safety net for three decades. The recent cuts to food stamps are the latest evidence of that.

Does this mean that we will eventually see the realization of the GOP's dream of ending all welfare for low-income people?

Not if corporate America has a say in the matter. And make no mistake, nothing gets done in Washington, D.C. without corporate America's blessing.

The fact is, corporate America loves welfare. (No, I'm not just talking about the billions of dollars big corporations pocket in corporate welfare every year). I'm talking about welfare for low-income people.

http://www.beggarscanbechoosers.com/2013/11/why-corporate-america-will-never-allow.html

Colbert: Poor People stealing from the Rich who only got 95% of the wealth created the last 10 years.

Stephen Colbert did his best parody of Fox "news" and their constant hammering of the poor who rely on programs such as food stamps along with those who rely on earned benefits such as Social Security -- otherwise known in Fox-world as "moochers" -- and he had some recommendations on how they might be able to make ends meet in this Tuesday night's "Word" segment.
Pick yourself up by your own bootstraps people... and if that doesn't work, well, you can always resort to selling your hair and body organs.


http://videocafe.crooksandliars.com/heather/colbert-has-way-moochers-pay-their-bills-w

HOW BIG COMPANIES AVOIDED BILLIONS IN TAXES! The inside story.

THIS ARTICLE IS LONG BUT IT IS VERY INTERESTING and worthwhile in finding out about the TAX AVOIDANCE BY BIG COMPANIES.

It was a humbling experience for the chief executive of the world’s most valuable company. Hauled before a Senate panel, Apple’s Tim Cook had to explain how an American company whose American engineers had created the iPhone and the iPad was able to avoid paying any taxes on billions of dollars in profits generated by those products — not to United States, not to any country. The only defense the Cook could conjure up for Apple “stateless” income was that it was all perfectly legal.
A few miles away in Arlington, a 55-year-old economist named Marty Sullivan sat on a folding metal chair at a card table in the garage of his modest brick home and watched the hearing unfold on his laptop computer. Sullivan is one of those unheralded members of the permanent Washington establishment who make things work, at least when the politicians let them. And for two decades, from the same home office, Sullivan has been exposing the tax-dodging schemes of multinational corporations in the columns of Tax Notes, a must-read publication for tax lawyers, accountants and policy wonks.
It was Sullivan who shined an early light on how companies had finagled “transfer prices” — the price one division charges another for parts or services — to shift profits to low-tax jurisdictions.


http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/10/26/marty-sullivan-figured-out-how-the-worlds-biggest-companies-avoided-billions-in-taxes-heres-how-he-wants-to-stop-them/

Wealthiest are the Welfare Queens: Why do people feel the poor and middle class created the mess?

The GOP Triumph in Successfully Framing The Budget Debate
Around Austerity and the Necessity for Entitlement Cuts

The triumph of right-wing Republicanism extends further. Failure to reach a budget agreement will restart the so-called “sequester” — automatic, across-the-board spending cuts that were passed in 2011 as a result of Congress’s last failure to agree on a budget.

http://evans-politics.com/robert-reich-the-triumph-of-the-right.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=facebook#.UmplIxxjgb0

Corporations Get Billions in Welfare: Why Cut 40 Million in food stamps from the Poorest?

It’s perverse to weaken our nation’s first line of defense against hunger and poverty by $4 billion per year while giving hundreds of billions to big corporations that don’t need them. Here are a few examples of what your hard-earned tax dollars are spent on:

• $7 billion per year subsidizing the oil industry.
  
• $600 billion—15 times the value of proposed food stamp cuts—over a decade by allowing corporations to stash cash overseas.
  
• $1 trillion over a decade be allowing special tax exemptions and loopholes for multinational corporations and wealthy households.
  
• $137 billion over a decade by not negotiating prescription drug prices.
  
• Over $20 billion per year on farm subsidies.
  

http://www.nationofchange.org/10-farm-subsidy-recipients-who-voted-cut-food-stamps-1379857259