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http://jimhightower.com/node/8661GOP governors, congress critters, and other officials perniciously insist that access to food stamps and other public assistance must be as burdensome and humiliating as possible. The latest example comes from the two Republican members of the Federal Communications Commission, which intends to expand a public subsidy called "Lifeline," extending broadband internet service to all poor households.
Universal access to the web is touted as essential to America's educational advancement and global competitiveness. Also, some 70 percent of teachers now assign homework requiring every student to do online searches. So our national interest and simple fairness say everyone should be able to connect. Yet even though Lifeline was started in 1985 by the Republican saint, Ronald Reagan the two FCC Republicans voted "no" on extending his sensible idea.
Luckily, they were outvoted, but they then demanded a requirement that poor families must publicly reveal that they are poor. The two Scrooges are subjecting these families to a daunting and humiliating bureaucratic process, which will prevent many kids from getting the internet access that everyone needs for education success.
Gothmog
(145,802 posts)He is a Texas treasure
virtualobserver
(8,760 posts)He is the best.
Erich Bloodaxe BSN
(14,733 posts)The GOP doesn't want any money 'wasted' on the poor, they want to keep it all funneled upwards to the rich.
Angry Dragon
(36,693 posts)ladjf
(17,320 posts)olddots
(10,237 posts)not humans ....easy cheap answer but I'll stick with it .
on point
(2,506 posts)If not blessed with wealth and other great things obvious you are to close to god.
Part of their we are better than everyone else,and deserve to be better than everyone else sick worldview
BillZBubb
(10,650 posts)Somehow even the so-called Christians among them don't see the irony of that.
meow2u3
(24,775 posts)You nailed it!
Hayduke Bomgarte
(1,965 posts)Hate? I can't believe the goops hate poor folks... I mean why would they work so diligently at creating so many of them?
madokie
(51,076 posts)He is an American Treasure no doubt.
LuvNewcastle
(16,864 posts)What else can you say about a group of people who want to take money away from the poor so they can give more to the rich? They're so perverse that they have even convinced many that taking money from the poor actually helps the poor. So I think the charitable thing to say is they are sick. Stupid and evil are just about the only other possibilities.
restorefreedom
(12,655 posts)and the rest of us are their worker ants.
they do not think of poor people as human. there is no other explanation that fits in my mind.