OUR LEADERS ARE IDIOTS

-HE ONLY SURPRISE IS THAT THE NUMBER ISN’T HIGHER: Poll: During Manhunt, 69% Of Voters Wanted Gun. -FOOD STAMP RECRUITER!!!!! THE LIFE OF A FOOD-STAMP RECRUITER: “In fact, it is Nerios’s job to enroll at least 150 seniors for food stamps each month, a quota she usually exceeds. Alleviate hunger, lessen poverty: These are the primary goals of her work. But the job also has a second and more controversial purpose for cash-strapped Florida, where increasing food-stamp enrollment has become a means of economic growth, bringing almost $6 billion each year into the state. The money helps to sustain communities, grocery stores and food producers.” -Daniel Farber’s and Philip Frickey’s important 1991 volume, Law and Public Choice: Ultimately, the health of the republic rested on civic virtue – that is, on the willingness of individuals to sacrifice private interests to the common good. This school of thought, which sought to revive the classical virtues of the Roman republic, has become known as republicanism…. The dark side of republicanism is its potentially totalitarian tendency to subordinate individuals to the public good, as defined by governmental elites. One of the most frequent and unfortunate failures to understand that things don’t always scale linearly involves democracy. Too many people assume that what holds true for their book club or homeowners association holds true for democratic polities of millions of people. -GREEN CRONYISM: White House Knew Fisker Automotive Was in Trouble– Gave Them Your Money Anyway. -Now this: Tamerlan Tsarnaev got Massachusetts welfare benefits. Marathon bombings mastermind Tamerlan Tsarnaev was living on taxpayer-funded state welfare benefits even as he was delving deep into the world of radical anti-American Islamism, the Herald has learned. -State officials confirmed last night that Tsarnaev, slain in a raging gun battle with police last Friday, was receiving benefits along with his wife, Katherine Russell Tsarnaev, and their 3-year-old daughter. . . . In addition, both of Tsarnaev’s parents received benefits, and accused brother bombers Dzhokhar and Tamerlan were recipients through their parents when they were younger, according to the state. The news raises questions over whether Tsarnaev financed his radicalization on taxpayer money. -BACK IN 2001, MICKEY KAUS POINTED OUT A WELFARE-TERRORISM CONNECTION. Kaus wrote: “The point isn’t simply that many terrorists take advantage of Western welfare states, the same way they take advantage of Western freedoms and Western technology. The point is that extreme anti-social terrorist ideologies (radical Islam, in particular) seem to breed in ‘oppositional’ cultures supported by various government welfare benefits.”