Mitt Romney and his plan for ‘the little people’ out there
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Lets overlook the condescension in Romneys description and instead focus on what the GOP nominee and his party propose to do for the waiters and waitresses that come in and out of this room, serving his contributors drinks and food at Jacksons River Hills country club.
More than 30 percent of Mississippi residents live in poverty. Some 650,000, including no doubt some of those waiters ferrying drinks and food, feed themselves and their children in part on food stamps, which Republicans want to slash drastically. The House Agriculture Committee just approved a measure cutting food stamps by $16.5 billion over 10 years. Among other things, the change would force some 300,000 children out of the free-lunch program at school.
One in five people in Mississippi again including much of that wait staff, Id suspect have no health insurance. Romney is intent on repealing the only real hope they have of attaining health coverage that citizens of almost every other industrialized country somehow enjoy, and he has offered no plans on how to replace it.
In fact, Romney proposes to make it worse. To help finance his plan to cut individual tax rates by 20 percent, Romney proposes to slash projected Medicaid funding, a step that would significantly increase the number of poorer Mississippi citizens without health insurance.
more: http://blogs.ajc.com/jay-bookman-blog/2012/07/17/mitt-romney-and-his-plan-for-the-little-people-out-there/?cxntfid=blogs_jay_bookman_blog
Cary
(11,746 posts)In their minds it all boils down, I think, to a philosophy that "values" earning things over "giving". Somehow "conservatives" think that if only the poor tried a little harder...
But that's a ridiculous notion bolstered by some true and some not so true anecdotal stories about "welfare queens" and the like.
Their vision is an extreme fueled by things largely beyond reality and perhaps an odd sort of schadenfreude. Clearly they are an odd brew of hatred, fear, anti-intellectualism, delusions of grandeur, dysfunction, greed, and rank stupidity along with some kind of processing disorder. Your facts will not move "conservatives" and even the religious segment, if God Herself came to them and told them to STFU, would not be moved.
Cary
(11,746 posts)I suspect that Willard might end up being less radical than his rhetoric if, God forbid, he did manage to win. I'm not certain of that and I think it would depend upon the makeup of Congress. I base that speculation partly on his record of standing for nothing and partly on a suspicion that he might not really want to drive us into ruin and despair.
Of course I'm not certain of any of that.
Angry Dragon
(36,693 posts)Fortinbras Armstrong
(4,473 posts)Greed, massive egotism and disdain for their fellow Americans. Along with a hefty dose of fear.
Cary
(11,746 posts)Fortinbras Armstrong
(4,473 posts)Indeed, I am convinced that ignorance of politics, history and economics are necessary to be a libertarian.
Cary
(11,746 posts)... that I am in a kind of strange denial somewhere in my being that I can actually be right.