by
Ben Shapiro
Today,
the Department of Labor proudly announced that it had given away some $260
million in grants to various organizations through its Senior Community Service
Employment Program (SCSEP). SCSEP is “a community service and work-based training
program for older workers – providing subsidized, part-time, community service
training for unemployed, low-income persons 55 or older who have poor
employment prospects.”
Sounds
great. Except the biggest recipients of SCSEP cash are Democratic political
surrogates.
The
largest single recipient of general SCSEP funds was – you guessed it – the
American Association of Retired Persons Foundation, which pulled down almost
$52 million. The AARP Foundation is a wing of the AARP, which stands to make
some $1 billion over the next decade thanks to Obamacare and spends hundreds of
millions of dollars to push liberal policies. The head of the AARP contributed
some $8,900 to Obama’s campaign committees in 2008.
Coincidentally,
the DOL is handing $6.6 million to the National Urban League – and it just so
happens that President Obama spoke at the NUL this week in an attempt to
reinvigorate his black support base.
The
goodies keep on coming for President Obama’s friends. And that’s his entire
campaign strategy: buy off specific constituency with taxpayer cash, and then
let them push him to victory.
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