America's dumbest ongressman is at ut AGAIN!

[napi21]

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2017/3/26/1646248/-America-s-dumbest-congressman-is-at-it-again?detail=email&link_id=2&can_id=b2511127fe32bafac43ef90f8341ece9&source=email-cartoon-poor-trump-voter&email_referrer=cartoon-poor-trump-voter&email_subject=cartoon-poor-trump-voter

It';ss a LONG article, so I'm just posting clips.

U.S. Rep. Glenn Grothman has been living off of government assistance since 1993—first as a Wisconsin State Assembly member, then as a Wisconsin state senator, and now as Wisconsin’s representative from the 6th Congressional District. He does not think anyone should receive government assistance. He also thinks as a never-married, childless man, he can dole out advice on both subjects. 

"There's no question that affirmative action is an idea whose time has come and gone," he told Wisconsin Public Radio. "It's offensive and it's very anti-business."

"I've interviewed over a dozen people who check out people who pay with food stamps, and all felt people on food stamps ate better—or at least more costly—than they did. Observations of people who work in food stores indicate that many people who use food stamps do not act as if they are genuinely poor." 

...that first-year students should be barred from receiving Pell Grants to make sure the federal government is not "wasting money" on those who don't graduate. And he suggested that low-income recipients are spending the grant aid on "goodies and electronics." Those students could pay for college by taking out loans, he said.

How do people like this ever get elected? BTW, he also says workplace discrimination is not true! never heard of this JA before, and HOPE he looses his seat before I hear about him again!

[Doreen]

1. How are poor people supposed to "act?"

[GoCubsGo]

3. I guess he thinks they should be living on dried beans, rice and ramen noodles.

And, never allowed to enjoy any sort of treat. He's just another one of these soulless assholes who think that poor people deserve their lot in life, and should be made as miserable as possible just for existing.

[Doreen]

7. Yeah, food that makes us fat because of all of the carbs and no protien.

That way they can say we are just lazy. Oh yeah, no protein makes it harder to work with no energy. Assholes.

[Warpy]

4. Wear rags, shuffle, refuse eye contact, and buy only day old bread and bologna

I guess that might satisfy a fucking asshole like the Congressman.

If we don't get these Ebeneezer Assholes out of government, they'll bring back the workhouse in all its appallingly punitive glory.

[Doreen]

6. I am also thinking debtors prisons also.

[Warpy]

10. They're already doing that shit

They put people into jail for failure to appear at a hearing over a debt, usually because the people had never been notified such a hearing would take place.

[Doreen]

12. Yeah, I have heard that but I am talking about towns they made that keep people

and their families in and are not allowed to live anywhere else until the debt is paid in full with penalty fees included.

[tblue37]

14. I am just guessing here: properly submissive, bowing and scraping, apologetic. nt

[Doreen]

15. Hahaha, with me that is not ever going to happen.

[tblue37]

16. Good! nt

[old guy]

2. He is just a typical WI republican. There is one just like him under every rock.

[Eliot Rosewater]

5. Where have you been LOL

How do people like this get elected? Hell, almost every living republican politician and voter thinks like this.

Until they themselves need help, then they change their tune but ONLY during the time they need the help.

[napi21]

11. I really don't believe every Pub thinks like him. There are Pubs who aren't completely heartless

and hateful. Some are Pubs for a single reason, and it's NOT hating the poor. Lots that I know, because their religion teaches it, believe abortion to be murder, and that's their ONLY reason to vote for someone. Some have been taught for so long that "The Dems want to tae away your guns", they simply vote against ANY Dem. no matter what.

[Eliot Rosewater]

13. I can sort of buy that, although on the abortion thing it is solely about controlling women

Intellectually they say it is a life and that is why, but the whole anti abortion thing is about controlling women, these same people would not do the same to men, including the women.

At least that is my take on it.

[ProfessorGAC]

8. He Interviewed A Dozen People?

First, i doubt the number is even that high, but even if it was, how hard would it be to just bump into 12 really stupid people?

[Initech]

9. Another idiot who somehow got elected.