Why Do So Many Republicans Who Profess Fealty To Jesus Hate Poor People?
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The House voted to express support for designating January as "Poverty in America Awareness Month." I guess you have to start somewhere and awareness isn't the worst place in the world. The resolution, offered by Seattle progressive Jim McDermott, notes that the number of people living in poverty (based on a 2008 study) has jumped by nearly 2,600,000 to 39,800,000, the highest number since 1960, that the number of children who live in poverty increased by 744,000 to 14,000,000, and that "the next Census report on poverty will likely illustrate higher levels of poverty as the report will reflect data from 2009, a year in which the economy experienced substantial job loss and historic levels of long-term unemployment, leading some experts to project that the overall poverty rate may increase by 1.5 percentage points and the percentage of children living in poverty may increase by 6 percentage points in the next report."
McDermott's resolution concludes by having the House commit to 3 principles:
• (A) eradicating poverty in the United States should be the goal for all people in the United States, including all levels of government;
• (B) the severe economic downturn has highlighted the need to ensure that the Nation's most vulnerable individuals and families are able to meet their most fundamental needs during a time of financial crisis; and
• (C) Congress should recommit itself to helping individuals and families facing economic hardship receive the assistance they need and deserve in moving towards greater economic security through programs under Title IV of the Social Security Act and other related programs.
It passed with overwhelming bipartisan support, 387-18. 18? I bet DWT regulars can name at least half of them. They're all Republicans and all radical right obstructionists whose voting records would seem to indicate that they favor a return to slavery as a way to cope with poverty in America. As you can see below more than 60% of this pile of national garbage comes from just two reactionary former Confederate states, Texas and Georgia:
Paul Broun (R-GA)
Michael Burgess (R-TX)
John Carter (R-TX)
Mike Conaway (R-TX)
Jeff Flake (R-AZ)
Virginia Foxx (R-NC)
Trent Franks (R-AZ)
Jeb Hensarling (R-TX)
Sam Johnson (R-TX)
Jack Kingston (R-GA)
Cynthia Lummis (R-WY)
Kenny Marchant (R-TX)
Tom McClintock (R-CA)
Mike Pence (R-IN)
Ted Poe (R-TX)
Tom Price (R-GA)
Steve Scalise (R-LA)
Lynn Westmoreland (R-GA)
Labels: poverty, Republican hypocrisy, Republican Jesus
posted by DownWithTyranny @ 10:00 AM
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Republican economic policy has certain basic ideas, and at its core is "In order to have rich people you HAVE TO HAVE POOR PEOPLE." Republicans aren't about to give up having rich people. So since Christians aren't supposed to support having poor people, the Republicans have done a marvelous job portraying the poor as lazy, irresponsible, welfare recipients. This has been a wonderfully received lie since Ronald Reagan first espoused his "welfare queen" (who never existed) idea.
However, reality is slowly catching up with this idea. More Americans who used to be working-class and/or middle class are now ranked among the poor. Those who are able to change their view of how poor people become poor will understand the lie they've been fed for what it is. And we will begin again to tax the rich at a rate which can make life in the USA decent for everyone.
What happened to Wright's comment?
Did he realize what an ass he was being
or was it scrubbed for the collies remark?
I don't want to attract too many wingnuts to the site so I only allow 10 morons a week to leave baseless and foolish comments. Wright's wasn't entertaining enough to even be a finalist.
I can't say anything about poverty but I've had many back-and-forths recently about hunger in the U. S. with academics like Marion Nestle and bureaucrats at HHS--and the common consensus is that a little over 36,000,000 Americans (of which a third of this stat are children) do not know where their next meal will come from. That's a little more than 1 in 10, no? And those statistics are based on 2007 figures, during the still-"good" times. I can only imagine what the figure is today.
I don't want to attract too many wingnuts to the site so I only allow 10 morons a week to leave baseless and foolish comments.
Heh, good for you, Howie! They add a seasoning of self-ridicule, but we really only need a tiny bit of it. Too much, and we're reminded just how many imbeciles and cynics there are,out there.
As for faux Jesus Republicans: I'm thoroughly convinced their minds are permanently bifurcated. There's a section where they read a bible and see a few words they like, and another section where they act as depraved as they want in kicking the shit out of their fellow humans. And that goes for many Democratic politicians, too, who serve corporate interests knowingly even when it can cause terrible pain to ordinary folks. I wonder what reward Lieberman hopes to gain when he dies? Or Tan-man Boehner? Or DeMint? We often deride the kooks who preach bizarre gospels there are more about aberrant psychological behaviors than any god, but what about those who sit in service week after week, nodding and tithing, only to go out and vote for more overseas wars, against a good health care bill, against raising the minimum wage? Atheists, psychotic, or aliens?
Educated people have 1.5 children. Undereducated people have 4. Do you see the problem? The later are the people watching Fox and voting for Mr. Brown and going to tea party conventions. Remember college graduates gave Martha a 5% margin.
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