More audio has been released of Barack Obama from 1998.  We heard some of this audio where Obama declared himself a lover of redistribution of wealth.  No surprise there.  But here is another statement that is turning some heads, though I doubt it will make waves in the ObamaMedia.

“What I think will re-engage people in politics is if we’re doing significant, serious policy work around what I will label the ‘working poor,’” he said, “although my definition of the working poor is not simply folks making minimum wage, but it’s also families of four who are making $30,000 a year.”

“They are struggling. And to the extent that we are doing research figuring out what kinds of government action would successfully make their lives better, we are then putting together a potential majority coalition to move those agendas forward.”

Let’s talk about the “working poor” and the government action that has been taken to make these people’s lives better.  Let’s start here: Barack Obama believes that America’s greatness comes from government spending.  He told us that!  His words!  So it comes as no surprise that he would believe that you can make someone life’s better by using the police power government to seize wealth from those who earned it and redistribute it to those who did not.  Have you really made someone’s life better by making them dependent on the government for their survival?  Is plunder the way to go? 

How rough does the “working poor” have it nowadays?  Maybe the numbers weren’t quite this extreme in 1998, but in 2010 the head of a household of four making minimum wage in America has more disposable income than a two-parent household of four earning $60,000 a year.  How is this possible?  Because our government has enable these people through income redistribution programs such as the Earned Income Tax Credit, food stamps, the school lunch program, Temporary Assistance for Needy Families, Medicaid, CHIP, Section 8 rent subsidies, and the heating assistance program.  There’s your coalition that Barack Obama is speaking about.  Over 110,000 Americans now receive some form of check from the government.  During recent months in the ObamaRecovery, we have more people claiming their disability checks for the first time than we do a paycheck.  One out of every seven Americans is now on food stamps.

Obama asked, what kind of government action would make their lives better?  Well a work requirement for welfare was one way … but you know what Obama did with that one.  But the other action requires no government at all.  In fact, it calls for less government in the form of less regulations and lower taxes, which will allow our economy to start growing again so that Americans can grow and earn a decent living.