Republican Christian moochers -- the newest welfare queens. [View All]

[The Backlash Cometh]

What a racket. Guess where the Republicans in need of money are going these days? Yep. The churches. And boy, do they take care of their own. I just happened to have a brush with the way things work. First, there are definitely people in this community who are in need of money, and make no mistake, Republicans are very capable of asking for hand-outs and taking them, even when you don't offer. This one guy, who very definitely needs help, no job & two kids, has one family who sends their kid to their school with an extra lunch to give to one of his kids. They know each other through church and, indeed, miss sports events because they're off on church retreats. A very nice arrangement, nothing wrong here, but it's how they relate to people outside their church circle that bothers me.

I happened to stumble onto this because my daughter became friends with one of the kids. Recently, I paid for one of the kid's tournament fees, which was no big deal, but, I was surprised to find out that the other parent expected me to do the same for him. I figure in their own minds, they see that my house is bigger so I'm in a better position to be more charitable.

Make no mistake, these are good, nice people, but they are far more needy than ever I have encountered. I have lived overseas and in neighborhoods where there was an abundance of blacks & hispanics and never, never, has any of them just expected their friends and neighbors to give them anything.

The kicker is this, through their churches, and through their contacts with staunch Republican branches of government, they have access to more public money than most. One of the Republican parents started talking about college scholarships and because I'm hispanic, they asked quite a few questions about which college my son went to and how the scholarship situation was. I looked at the lady in surprise and said, "Haven't you been reading the papers, there is NO money out there for education." The second moocher dad quickly turned his head away, almost ashamed to be eavesdropping on our conversation and I know why. He's retired Air Force and he's expecting to get a full scholarship for his kid, the way most Air Force parents do. A Republican who probably faulted every social program for the poor under the Democrats, and there he is sitting pretty with the biggest & most selective government social program hand-out agency: The Air Force.

I don't fault him for his good fortune, but damn, it sure does feel like Republicans don't like to pay taxes that will go to the poor in someone else's community, because there's less to go around for them in their own.