Narcissistic CEO who bought Senate seat blames the poor and the safety net for economic crisis

U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson says nation faces tipping point due to 'culture of entitlement'

U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson Wednesday urged members of a service organization to go beyond community involvement to help build a groundswell of support for change necessary to avert a financial and cultural disaster in the country. Speaking to hundreds gathered for a joint meeting of the city's three Rotary Clubs, the Republican Senator from Oshkosh said political reform is the only way to avert "a cultural tipping point" that will spill over into the nation's finances.

"This has to be a grassroots effort. We have got to demand that we start making changes in this country, that we actually seriously address the problems facing this nation. And that is going to take a lot of political pressure," Johnson said during his speech at the Oshkosh Convention Center. "That's going to take people stepping up to run for office. Good people, not people … that want the title, but people who recognize America is something precious. … We've been given a gift here and we're blowing it."

Johnson, a political newcomer and Oshkosh manufacturing company owner who defeated three-term incumbent Sen. Russ Feingold in November, said people who value their local community need to get involved to help turn around what he called a "culture of entitlement" to benefits such as food stamps and other programs. He said over-reliance on government can be measured in statistics such as an increase in the out-of-wedlock birth rate from 7.5 percent in the 1960s to more than 40 percent currently, even higher in black communities from more than 20 percent to more than 70 percent over the same period, and more than 46 million Americans relying on food stamps.

"In this nation, it's the cultural tipping point that drives the financial one," Johnson said. "I believe we have developed in this nation a culture of entitlement and dependency. I think it's undeniable." Johnson said the debt-ceiling crisis was "man-made" and the compromise that resolved it cuts the rate federal spending will increase, not the size of the federal budget. He said he's more concerned about investors rejecting American bonds or charging high interest rates that would lead to a financial crisis. He also took aim at President Barack Obama, saying that re-electing the president "would be a disaster" based on his response to the debt crisis, health care bill and the Dodd-Frank Wall Street reform legislation. Johnson said the new financial laws do not address the concern some companies have become too big to fail. "I realize, very sadly, he doesn't know what to do. He never did," Johnson said of Obama.

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He has zero concern that so many people need food stamps- instead the poor deserve the blame for bringing down the economy. What a dumbass.

was doing the voting?!?!?!? Didn't ANY Dems show up? :grr:

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I think that could also be said about Johnson.

to deny reality and hope the lower classes will accept the blame.

It seems to be the banksters, wallstreet and the wealthy ARE THE PROBLEM. They certainly have more control of the money supply and policy than the low income. Seems to me like the well to do ARE FAILURES at the monetary system. If you can't devise a system that encludes all persons...seems to me like a failure - hoping the common man doesn't think critically and realize the set up. It is time to let the well to do know they are FAILURES at monetary policies and not patriotic.

Johnson's companies used prison workers Source Link: http://www.jsonline.com/blogs/news/104605089.html

The two companies are Pacur and Dynamic Drinkware, both of which operate in Oshkosh, and have been employing such prison labor since at least 1998, state records show. The workers are still under the custody of the state Department of Corrections and are paid by the two companies, but their health insurance and health care is taken care of by state taxpayers.

At Pacur, Johnson also has used government programs such as industrial revenue bonds, which allow his company to gain lower intererest rates and gives investors tax-free income on the interest earned, as well as a $75,000 federal grant in 1979 that helped Johnson's company construct a rail spur.

The same guy that went to work for his father-in-law and then took over the company ..... a self made man ....... I guess it matters who you sleep with