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Just how stupid and heartless are Republicans? Meet AOTW winner Cynthia Davis, GOP State senator from Missouri...  In her June newsletter, Davis provided several “commentaries” to a press release from the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services on a summer food program for poor children. Among them: Who’s buying dinner? Who is getting paid to serve the meal? Churches and other non-profits can do this at no cost to the taxpayer if it is warranted. [...] Bigger governmental programs take away our connectedness to the human family, our brotherhood and our need for one another. [...] Anyone under 18 can be eligible? Can’t they get a job during the summer by the time they are 16? Hunger can be a positive motivator. What is wrong with the idea of getting a job so you can get better meals? Tip: If you work for McDonald’s, they will feed you for free during your break. [...] It really is all about increasing government spending, which means an increase in taxes for us to buy more free lunches and breakfasts. Nice Christian ethic you've got there, asshole. So much for all that hippie Jesus talk about loaves and fishes, I guess. P.S. A report by Feeding America found that one in five children in Davis's own home state currently lives with hunger. The people of Missouri ought to round up this detestable tub of shit, impale her on a spit and roast her at a poverty picnic. Barring that, just go to the polls next time around and throw her the hell out of office. Tags: asshole, children, loathsome people, poverty, republican scum, starvation
From: Chicago
Mood:  DIAF
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To start and my role as the lone crazy man on your journal, I object to this entry. Mostly because this issue (like many) are so emotionally crowded that any sort of dissenting opinion instantly labels someone who hates poor people, or puppies, or poor puppies. I will only say that I support (and actively donate) food sharing programs. However, like most things, I do not support government compulsion for it.
And hunger *can* be a motivating factor, though saying it like that instantly makes you ripe for the puppy hating and what not. It's more appropriate to say economic necessity becomes a motivating factor. No, this does not mean I think that we shouldn't help those less privileged, but it does mean that when someone gets something for "free", without effort, there's little incentive to change.
Take for example, unemployment insurance. I've been on unemployment insurance, way back during the time when Bush extended it to something like 18 months. You know when I got a job? When it ended. In fact, out of all the people on unemployment I know, approximately half gamed the system (worked cash jobs so as to collect benefits and work at the same time) and all but 1 (out of, dunno, maybe 8 or so) including myself did not "actively look for work" beyond the token effort required to continue receiving free money. No, I am not proud of this.
It is for this, and other reasons, that I oppose government intervention in these types of social welfare programs: they're almost always horribly inefficient and easily gamed. I most certainly support food drives, donations, volunteering, etc., but I oppose any sort of compulsory measures for it.
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"And hunger *can* be a motivating factor..."
Of course it can, but we're talking about kids - in our very own country - going hungry at night, which means your good-intentioned donation to food-sharing programs aren't getting the job done. I find this wholly unacceptable, and am more that willing to see a few of my tax dollars go toward ensuring every needy kid in the country has not only the nutrition they need, but the medical care as well. Hell, look at the U.S. taxpayer dollars that go to feeding hungry kids in other countries (i.e. UNICEF). I don't see too many people calling that an "entitlement" program, or complaining about how they're being "compelled" by our government to help support them.
Poverty is very real (and very rampant) in this country. And yes - while some might "game the system" as you say, I hold fast to the belief that most Americans want to make it on their own but, for myriad circumstances, are having a hell of a time doing it (starting with a scarcity of decent-paying jobs). These people need our help. Especially those too young to have any say in the matter. When a politician goes on the record suggesting that 16-year-olds get a job at McDonald's to help overcome their hunger, that politician is either ignorant, heartless, stupid or all three.
So no, I don't think you hate kids (or puppies), nor that you're the "lone crazy man" here in this forum. I just don't think you've ever really walked in the shoes of an American who doesn't know where their next meal is coming from. We may not technically be the richest nation on Earth anymore, but we should still strive to be the most caring and compassionate, espcially when it comes to our own citizens.
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