Jerry Brown explains his theory of economics: “We need more welfare and fewer jobs.”

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This isn’t one of those cases where the candidate can explain something away by saying it was a youthful indiscretion. It’s not like Christine O’Donnell saying she experimented with witchcraft in high school or even Chris Coons calling himself a bearded Marxist right after college.

No, Governor Moonbeam was 55 years old and had already served two terms as California governor in 1995 when he said we need more welfare and fewer jobs.

Here’s the genius’s complete quote:

The conventional viewpoint says we need a jobs program and we need to cut welfare. Just the opposite! We need more welfare and fewer jobs. Jobs for every American is doomed to failure because of modern automation and production. We ought to recognize it and create an income-maintenance system so every single American has the dignity and the wherewithal for shelter, basic food, and medical care. I’m talking about welfare for all. Without it, you’re going to have warfare for all. Without a universal health care like every other civilized country, without a minimum level of income, this country will explode. You can’t blame the guy at the bottom forever. At some point there’s a reaction and we’ll see that the real criminals are those calling the tune, making the rules, and walking to the bank.

Remarkably, Brown’s ahead in the polls. To which we can only say, elect this guy and you get what you deserve, California.

Let the exodus begin.

H/T: Fox Nation

This post was last modified on October 16, 2010

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  • What's really, really sad, is that there are enough yahoos in California who are stupid enough to reelect this nutjob.

    • "What’s really, really sad, is that there are enough yahoos in California who are stupid enough to reelect this nutjob."

      Him AND the vast cavern of political cretins before him throughout the state! They have destroyed a once beautiful and bountiful state forever. Growing up in LA, my dad said that LA was an absolute paradise in the 30's and 40's.

      Thanks Mom & Dad for seeing the writing on the wall and getting us out 35 years ago!

    • Our pleasure. Admin Girl is with one of our favorite websites - IOwnTheWorld.com. If you've never visited IOTW, do so. We highly recommend it.

  • At least he means welfare for everyone, not just banks and corporations and the rich as it is being practiced now and has extensively been practiced under the Republicans. Funny how people would support socialism for the rich but not for themselves. Hey, if you prefer to give your taxes to bank bailouts and million dollar bonuses for bank executives who mismanage your money, rather than to the homeless person who lost his job, because of them, it's up to you. Funny how these incompetent bankers can be 'dignified' accepting handouts, while other individuals cannot.

    • I think you need to go back and re-learn who was in charge when this whole banking mess started PK...it was the Clinton Administration that forced these banks into the position they were in, and the likes of Barney Frank, Andrew Cuomo, Tim Geitner, Ben Bernanke, Chris Dodd...the list is VERY long and they are DEMOCRATS! I know you libs are not the brightest crayon in the box, but really, you should try to cover it up a little better!

      • the banking deregulation that clinton signed was a gimme to the GOP to drop the lewinsky inquisition. additionally the bill was written by mccains economic advisor phil gramm. what clinton did was wrong, however the bill was written and supported by "conservatives"... which abolished the glass-steagall act and transformed our banking industry. so... when we use the word "forced" we should understand that the banks actually lobbied for this bill and used conservatives and a desperate clinton as their puppets for passing the bill.

    • "At least he means welfare for everyone..." pk... what is that?.. an abbreviation for pinko or punk? Because that's what you are if you endorse and support the welfare entitlement mentality that has been eroding the foundations of this nation since the 60's. If you pull your head out of your @ss and look around you'll see that 90% of the people Brown Clown is pandering to (read; buying votes with the promise of more freebies) are lazy slacker punks that live off the largess of their elders, newly arrived illegal alien dead-beats, and of course the ever present multiple generation "Great Society" descendants that have made bilking the system a way of life.

    • ALL HAIL THE RECIPIENT.

      Remember that, it will come in handy. Beacause when leftist jackasses like Jerry Brown tax & regulate buisinesses to the point they say "EFF THIS...", & they pack up & leave, don't come crying to me. California is going down the same road Michigan did, & that state is dying. EVERY LIBERAL/PROGRESSIVE/SOCIALIST idea that you can put in place, IS IN PLACE in Michigan. The result, 1 of the worst state economies in the nation. In fact, the places with the sh!ttiest economies, are run by big spending liberals. All of them, & the cities especially, all run by big city political machine mayors & city councils, like Detroit, LA, NYC, Chicago, Cleveland, Philly, Washinton DC, & SF to name a few. Capital will always go where it is treated best, & it will flee high tax, anti buisiness locations. Nobody every got a paycheck from a poor person, unless they are a dealer or a prostitute, & even that's a COD buisiness. Gov't has never created wealth, they only know how to destroy it by taxing & regualting it. You can hate buisinesses & the people who create & run them all you want, but you can't escape this fact, capitalism is boss. The laws of economics will always find a way around liberal/progressive/socialist idiocy, ALWAYS. Buisiness will make their money wherever they have to, & folks like you want to run them out. Besides, China makes great products anyway, why would we need to make things here?

  • Poor Jerry. He's brain dead from all the dope he did in the 60's and 70's. And 80's. And 90's. Wait! I see a pattern forming!

  •   » Sounds suspiciously like the old communist system, doesn’t it?

      No, it doesn't, really.

        What Brown is saying here is that society can and should be based on fewer people actually working and contributing, with more people simply idling as parasites, living off the work of the fewer people who are working.

      Even Communism recognizes the absurdity of this position.  Communism recognizes that a healthy society needs everyone to contribute to the best of their ability.  Communism's failure is that it assumes that the population as a whole can be motivated to do so out of some desire for the common good, rather than out of their own self-interests.

      In practice, what happens in any socialist society is that many people, not having an individual self-interest in working harder to gain greater rewards, end up doing the minimum that they can get away with, so the population as a whole produces less, and society winds up being poorer.  Even a Communist would recognize this as a failure of the society.

      Brown's position, as expressed here, is to describe as desirable and inevitable, the situation that even a Communist would recognize as failure.

    • I think thats a fine proposal but I suggest one modification: Whoever stands up and supports such a system should be the one made to work while those willing to work can sit on ass all day and watch.

      • I like this idea. jackass jerry brown, barrack and joe biden will have to get a job! damn that would be worth money to watch that charley foxtrot.

  • Not that I don't believe he said this, but if you are going to quote someone you should provide info as to when and where this speech was made. Who was Brown speaking to? Do you have any specific proof of this quote beyond just that he said this in 1995? If so, please provide it to us. I've got liberal friends calling bullshit on this one and I'd like to be able to shut them up with some sort of verifiable proof but your article doesn't provide me with the specifics to enable me to do that.

    • There's a link at the bottom of the story. Follow the links and you'll eventually get back to a complete transcript from Pacifica Radio, one of the lefty-est organizations in media, where Brown had his own radio show back in the 90s.

      • I live in San Diego, and I love the place. But I know it's not going to last for me. The political climate is just getting too bad here. Luckily, I am mobile, and ready to leave at a moment's notice.

          • The biggest problem San Diego has is it's proximity to the porous border to our south, and the local politicians who won't allow the police to do their job when it comes to illegals. But we're not giving up yet. Still working hard to keep it the beautiful place it's always been.

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