Get a load of this RW asshole: "There should be humiliation and pain in government assistance."

[TheMightyFavog]

http://dailycaller.com/2012/02/28/damn-i-just-want-some-jam/2/

He wants to force people on food stamps to shop at government run stores that only sell products in plain boxes, submit to drug, alcohol and tobacco testing every month, and revoke voting "privileges" to people on food stamps.

From the article:

There should be humiliation and pain in government assistance. Every time someone accepts food stamps, they are spitting on the principles of independence, and they, not the taxpayers who fund the program, should be reminded of that fact.

[2ndAmForComputers]

1. That person is a psychopath and a sadist. This is not, I repeat NOT hyperbole.

[roguevalley]

8. I sent him this post

check this out and see if you still feel the same way: http://www.jesuscentral.com/ji/life-of-jesus-modern/jesus-poor.php

I feel terribly sorry that you feel so much hatred for the ones whom Jesus loved best. Try and find one good word spoken for the rich. You won't find it.

I will probably get a grenade emailed to me.

[2ndAmForComputers]

11. Tell us if you get a response.

[roguevalley]

16. I will. :)

[rustydog]

2. This jerk-wad is incapable of realizing how humiliating simply asking for assistance can be

I'll lay you 10 to 1 odds this a-hole considers himself a Christian Conservative.

[Bjorn Against]

3. I guess that we all should be humiliated

Because we ALL accept aid from the government, government aid is about more than foodstamps, it is about the roads we drive on, the schools we have attended, the municipal water we drink, the subsidized foods that we eat, it is about many things. Anyone who says they don't accept aid from the government is either ignorant or a liar.

[ejpoeta]

4. does he think it's a walk in the park to be on assistance?

It's already bad enough as it is. First you have to endure humiliation to try to get assistance and have them question why you don't sell 5 shares in walmart that you don't even have the papers to that if you sold them would get you about $30. Yep. That would really fix my problems, thanks.

Then you go through it when you try to go to use it at the store and everyone and anyone thinks that they have the right to scrutinize and question any purchases you have. There are plenty out there that think you shouldn't be allowed to buy name brand anything or have anything but the bare basics if you are on assistance. On top of that you (at least here) have to work it off.

When my husband and I were both unemployed and getting help (there is a max of 5 years over your life for cash assistance) you have to prove that you are looking for a job. And we both had to look. They didn't care that I had a young kid and a minimum wage job would cost more than I would make with traveling and daycare. And then you had to work it off. We didn't end up having to do that, but they do. So on top of having to work it off and prove that you are trying to get a job you get the privilege of being fodder for everyone else in the store.

I am glad I am not on assistance anymore. We did have family health plus and our kids are on child health plus and get reduced lunches, but the thought of having to endure that just freaks me out. My hubby said that he was going to apply for food stamps since our health insurance brings our income down to $30k a year. No thanks.

[rurallib]

5. sadistic MFer

I always hope these people some day lose it all and have to submit to their prescriptions for getting by.

[Johonny]

6. So socialize government stores and manditory invasion of privacy

so much for the free market, don't tread on me attitude of conservatives. Once again these are conservative Republican values? Who the * are these people and who do they represent?

[madamesilverspurs]

7. Well, he would be pleased to know

that there is already considerable shame, humiliation, and degradation built into "helping" programs.

Isn't there a name for those who take pleasure in the pain of others?

[gulliver]

13. That's actually a very key fact.

Republican attitudes are extremely blind to very simple, obvious notions. Republicans don't seem to realize that the vast majority of people on some form of public aid probably are fairly ashamed of it and would rather not be on it. Duh. If Republicans would just think for a change the world would be a better place. But they won't. They live in an angry fantasy. That is why their point of view is dying.

[deutsey]

30. When I was a kid, my mom had to go on food stamps

She found it so humiliating she dropped out of the program.

That should make the author happy.

[applegrove]

9. That was one of the lessons that came out of the depression. That people should

never be so desperate that they have to beg.

[AnnieBW]

10. I'm sure that my Republican acquaintance who is long-term unemployed

will appreciate that sentiment.

[Selatius]

12. Fine. He should have his vehicle checked and body searched every time he uses a PUBLIC ROAD. nt

[lonestarnot]

14. I think his preparation H should share some red assed pepper!

[DirkGently]

15. I think it's great they're just laying it down like this.

Let's really take this logic out and look at it. Let's come to grips with the fact that humiliation and degradation are what these folks are really about. Not freedom. Not "god." Not fiscal responsibility. Just spitting on anyone who has the temerity to have not benefitted as much from our mutual societal cooperation as they have.

Let's take all the masks off. There are people in this country who are utterly contemptuous of the very idea that civilization means working together for the common good. The idea of returning any of the benefit bestowed on them by the social contract to anyone else offends their three-year-old's sense of utter entitlement. They want it all.

Let's talk about that.

Jesus.

[TalkingDog]

17. He works at Chattahoochee Valley Community College and works for the Sons of Confederate Veterans

You think the Community College system in Alabama would appreciate being associated with this kind of bigotry?

Maybe we should email them and ask?

CVCC President Laurel Blackwell:
[e-mail]

On the other hand, I'm sure the Stephen D. Lee Institute won't mind.

[trackfan]

18. These people are asking for the rack.

Re-education would probably be useless with this ilk.

[AsahinaKimi]

19. This sounds like the kind of guy

Who would throw someone out of a wheel chair and demand they walk... You can only shake your head at the cruelty and ignorance of right wing conservatives. They are souless zombies whose flesh, hasn't quite fallen off yet.

[Ichingcarpenter]

20. He's a history professor at a community college in Alabama

Writes a lot of crap for Lew Rockwell

[DiverDave]

21. He's getting slammed by the comments

What a heartless prick.
The only way he will be changed is if HE and his busybody wife have a life changing event and qualified for food stamps.
And I KNOW he would take it in a heartbeat.
God what a despicable ass.

[me b zola]

22. Unless its them (rwers) or their loved ones

Exceptionalism. This is a defining feature of the rw. I truly believe that there is a pathology to them more than that they are just simply hypocrites.

Its not that they are unaware of their dual standards for them and for everyone not them, they really are. Honestly, if you have enough discussions with them, in an attempt to not seem like a hypocrite, they will absolutely and unapologetically tell you that they are deserving of this and that and that others are not. Then they will go on to demonize this group and that group under the banner of "stupid stereotypes r us".

This is really scary stuff, imo.

[SWTORFanatic]

23. I actually agree with him! (when it comes to corporate welfare)

[Dirty Socialist]

24. Government Subsidizes Corporations Too

Government subsidizing of moving jobs overseas should be administered with a bullwhip.

[libtodeath]

25. I wonder what he would think

if his house was burning and the fire department said,will get there but only after you have suffered enough.

[Ganja Ninja]

26. It's like I always say.

Government doesn't have to suck but leave it to the Republicans to put the suck in government.

[siligut]

27. This works off of an inaccurate stereotype

Pain and humiliation are cruel but effective tools to change behavior. That people who are on assistance want to be that way is a right-wing idea. Not only is his proposal cruel it is stupid.

[deutsey]

28. I'm glad to see the big smiley face Reagan put over the ugly face of the right wing

is finally falling off.

I can only hope that the more the right's underlying ugliness is exposed, the more people will recoil from it.

Some days that hope isn't very strong, though.

[LeftishBrit]

29. There should be humiliation and pain in being such a disgusting person as this writer is.

Ugh ugh ugh ugh UGGGGGHHHHHHHHH!!!!

[OnionPatch]

31. Typical sentiments from the "party of morals".

Jesus always humiliated everyone he helped, right?

[Courtesy Flush]

32. This quote stood out

There are typically several grocery store locations that have gone out of business in any given area

And there will be many more if the government sets up competition and compels people to shop there.

[hifiguy]

33. Psychopath. Sociopath. Four-door brass-plated shitheel.

The very essence of modern Repiglicanism. Hope he meets Breitbart in hell soon.

[Initech]

34. What an asshole.

[MisterP]

35. same asshole philosophy as Martin Amis

"Discriminatory stuff, until it hurts the whole community and they start getting tough with their children"

[Zalatix]

36. Does this include humiliation and agony for banksters who get bailouts?

What about farms that get subsidies?

[mrmpa]

37. The guy has a Ph.D....piled higher and deeper eom