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gollygee

(22,336 posts)
Tue Dec 3, 2013, 11:37 AM Dec 2013

Robert Reich's quiz on Facebook re unemployment, food stamps, min wage

"Today's quiz: So why do congressional Republicans want to end extended unemployment benefits for 4 million jobless people and their families, cut food stamps for millions of Americans with barely enough to live even now, and keep the minimum wage where it is even though its inflation-adjusted value is thirty percent below what it was a half-century ago? Because they (A) believe only the fittest and wealthiest should survive and the poorer should perish (this used to be called “social Darwinism”); (B) are financed by rich people and corporations that don’t want to spend a penny more on the less fortunate; (C) are racist, and think the jobless and poor are mostly black and Latino; (D) want a violent uprising that will turn America into a police state; (E) none of the above (supply your own reason.)"

I would personally add (F) all of the above.

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Robert Reich's quiz on Facebook re unemployment, food stamps, min wage (Original Post) gollygee Dec 2013 OP
I agree. Strange oversight on Mr Reich's part. malthaussen Dec 2013 #1
Making you pick one drives you to think about it even harder Fumesucker Dec 2013 #7
(F) All of the above Scuba Dec 2013 #2
+1 sakabatou Dec 2013 #3
How is it (F) All of the above if (E) is "None of the above?" Orrex Dec 2013 #11
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Scuba Dec 2013 #12
All of the Above nt abelenkpe Dec 2013 #4
(F) All of the above dwilso40641 Dec 2013 #5
Republican leadership never does anything for just one reason. canoeist52 Dec 2013 #6
You are correct. F for all of the above. jwirr Dec 2013 #8
H: it is amusing. Half-Century Man Dec 2013 #9
The Republican party is a big tent. Every kind of sociopath is welcome. n/t lumberjack_jeff Dec 2013 #10
All of the above. nt LittleGirl Dec 2013 #13

malthaussen

(17,217 posts)
1. I agree. Strange oversight on Mr Reich's part.
Tue Dec 3, 2013, 11:49 AM
Dec 2013

The motivations are clearly multiple and interconnected. You could even float a G: think that most public-assistance recipients are single mothers and want to crush them even more as a form of sexual control.

"G" gains more credence if you think, as I do, that sexism is even more prevalent and virulent than racism.

-- Mal

Fumesucker

(45,851 posts)
7. Making you pick one drives you to think about it even harder
Tue Dec 3, 2013, 12:28 PM
Dec 2013

And even more realize they are all true.

IMHO of course.

canoeist52

(2,282 posts)
6. Republican leadership never does anything for just one reason.
Tue Dec 3, 2013, 12:26 PM
Dec 2013

There have to be multiple hits to humanity, for their money making schemes to be implemented.

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