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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsRobert 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 dont 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.
malthaussen
(17,217 posts)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)And even more realize they are all true.
IMHO of course.
Scuba
(53,475 posts)Orrex
(63,225 posts)Scuba
(53,475 posts)abelenkpe
(9,933 posts)dwilso40641
(199 posts)canoeist52
(2,282 posts)There have to be multiple hits to humanity, for their money making schemes to be implemented.