It was discovered by the Daily Caller this week that Republican Party frontrunner Donald Trump is being politically advised by Barry Bennett. Just who is this Bennett that we speak of?

He was hired by a telephone company to promote Obamaphones and paint the program as something to help veterans. The ads engulfed the airwaves in Washington, D.C. It was meant to encourage Republicans to turn the other cheek over the scandal-laden program because it was targeted towards those returning from the wars.

Speaking in an interview with the Washington Examiner in 2014, Bennett explained that he supports those types of welfare programs “because I don’t hate poor people.”

“As conservatives, we can’t hate Obama so badly that we hate something just because he put his name next to it,” said Bennett, who is a counselor and resource to Trump’s top campaign aides. “If it were called Obama-food stamps, would conservatives want to do away with them?”

Defending the Undefend... Walter Block Best Price: $1.99 Buy New $10.80 (as of 07:55 UTC - Details) Essentially, his entire premise is that foes of entitlement programs and welfare initiatives detest the poor. However, it’s the proponents of these ideas who actually detest the impecunious in our society by exploiting them and taking advantage of them.

Here is what world-renowned economist Walter Block wrote in his magnum opus “Defending the Undefendable“:

“…’charitable’ institutions such as workmen’s compensation, collective bargaining in labor, unemployment insurance, and welfare programs were begun not by advocates of the poor, as is universally accepted, but by the rich. These programs promote their own class interests. The aim of this state-corporate charity system is not to redistribute wealth from rich to poor, but to buy up the potential leaders of the poor and tie them to the hegemony of the ruling class, while maintaining an intellectual class determined to convince in unwary public that government charity actually benefits them.

Austrian School for In... Rahim Taghizadegan, Ro... Best Price: $15.96 Buy New $34.03 (as of 08:20 UTC - Details) “In like manner, Piven and Cloward point out in Regulating the Poor that the ‘charitable’ institution of welfare serves not mainly to aid the poor, but rather to suppress them. The modus operandi here is to allow the welfare rolls to increase not in times of great need, but in times of social upheaval, and to decrease the welfare rolls not in times of plenty, but in times of social transquility. Thus the welfare system is a kind of ‘bread and circus’ method of controlling the masses.”

Whenever a politician, political insider, activist or elitist talks about welfare and the poor then just remember the wise words of Block.

Reprinted with permission from Economic Collapse News.

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