Republican Hunger Mongers Are Starving People To Give Corporations Welfare

[babylonsister]

Republican Hunger Mongers Are Starving People To Give Corporations Welfare

By: Rmuse
Aug. 31st, 2013


Nearly all Americans have experienced that physical sensation of desiring food at some point in their life, but since they live in the richest nation on Earth, there is really no reason any American should be hungry for any length of time. When social scientists talk about people suffering from hunger, they usually refer to those who are unable to eat sufficient food to meet basic nutritional needs that all human beings require to provide support for their bodies. It is difficult to imagine any American who would deprive another person from having adequate food, especially when over 70% of Americans follow Christ who said “feed the poor.” However, over 40% of Americans who affiliate with the GOP give unwavering support to conservatives who are inclined to deliberately deny poor Americans adequate food leading one to assume they embrace the idea of keeping Americans hungry.

Last week in Pennsylvania congressman Tom Marino (R) said he supports the Meals on Wheels program that provides food for seniors who are shut in, but he supports reducing the nation’s long-term debt more. At the headquarters for Meals on Wheels, Marino told senior citizens that “I can’t stand here and tell you your agency won’t be cut,” because “we do not have the money. The revenue is not there.” Marino is a liar pure and simple. Republicans certainly find revenue to fund billions of dollars for oil subsidies, agricultural corporations, and religious organizations through faith-based initiatives and tax-exemptions, but they claim they do not have the money ($41 million) to stop cuts to Meals on Wheels for seniors and the disabled who will have 19 million fewer meals delivered to their homes. Republicans have the revenue, but they are loath to spend it on assisting Americans with basic nutrition because they lust to keep the poorest Americans hungry; especially children.

When the House decided not to fund food stamps recently, they guaranteed that 22 million children in poverty would experience that physical sensation of desiring food on a regular basis. Add to that the sequester cuts to Head Start, and it is evident that Republicans lust to keep children hungry and still claim “we do not have the money, the revenue is not there.” These are the same so-called followers of Christ who adhere to the “sanctity of life” mantra, but it is a life of hunger and despair for millions of the poor that their religion’s namesake commanded his followers feed.

One libertarian hunger-monger, Kentucky Senator Rand Paul explained that “as Christians, we have an obligation, I really believe that, and it’s a deep-held belief. As humans, we do have an obligation to give to give people food.” Paul goes on to argue that giving people food puts them in servitude and it is about as valid an argument for cutting food assistance to the poor as telling seniors “we do not have the money.” It is unclear why, or when, it became repulsive to help the poor and provide them with food, especially when they would rather have a living wage job. As it is, 72% of food stamp recipients are working Americans and likely the other 28% are children and senior citizens that Republicans felt were “extraneous” as they failed to fund food stamps in the House’s version of the farm bill. However, there is a callous disregard for hungry Americans that is rampant across America and not reserved to Congressional Republicans.

In over 50 major American cities it is illegal for good Samaritans to provide food to the poor and indigent, and the cities claim it is a ploy to drive hungry and homeless people out of the cities, but it is callous disregard for human beings who are hungry and a trend to deprive them from getting any kind of nourishment; even if it is food discarded in dumpsters. In many cities it is a violation of the law for the homeless to eat food out of garbage dumpsters, and at a Seattle Starbucks recently one of their baristas who had to supplement his meager income with food stamps was terminated for eating out of the dumpster. The employee grabbed a meal out of the trash after a co-worker threw out a stack of breakfast sandwiches that were marked past their sell-by date. The hungry barista said, “I hadn’t eaten all day, and I was on a seven-hour shift.” Several days later the manager called the hungry worker into their office and promptly fired him for his “dumpster dinner” because Starbucks considered being hungry and eating out of the trash stealing from the company.


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[gopiscrap]

1. As I have said before:

I don't know how you can be a Christian and a republican at the same time.

[Hayduke Bomgarte]

2. Easy

Lie convincingly to yourself,and be dumb enough and or money hungry to believe it.

[freshwest]

3. K & R

[Scuba]

4. Kick. Thanks babylonsister.