How the GOP (et al) Sticks It To the Poor

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The article, featured in today's Yahoo News, is actually titled "How To Stick It To the Poor: A Congressional Strategy" (the title, no doubt an apparent effort at non-bias).

But only a cursory examination of the FACTS reveal that it is primarily the GOP who is the culprit here:


How to stick it to the poor: A congressional strategy


the details of which include:


"The 113th Congress has stuck it to the poor at pretty much every opportunity. In fact, if you take all their past and future plans into account, it looks like they have accomplished that rare feat: To close in on enacting an overarching, radical agenda without control of the Senate or the presidency."

"Congress will basically start kicking poor people out of their homes early next year. The idea is, if you can't pay for your home without government assistance, you don't deserve to live in one."

"Sequester cuts to the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) meant that 300,000 low-income families in 2013 were denied government support for energy costs."

"The recent reduction in Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits has affected more than 47 million Americans and is the largest wholesale cut in the program since Congress passed the first Food Stamps Act in 1964."

"House Republicans are pushing to take $39 billion from SNAP over the next decade."

"...as a result of sequestration, Head Start literally had to kick preschoolers out of their classrooms this March and removed 57,000 children from the program this September (70,000 kids total are will be affected)..."

"...more than half of public schools have fired personnel due to the ominous cuts — and Representative Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) said sequestration "has been one of the good things that has happened."

"People who have been out of work for 27 weeks or more — 40 percent of the unemployed — have already begun and will continue to lose a large portion of their benefits between January and March. Eight percent of this year's sequestration cuts are coming from unemployment insurance."

"...by the end of December, about 1.3 million will lose their extended jobless benefits if Congress doesn't renew the program."


Not all attributable to the GOP though. They've had some help from unlikely sources:


"President Obama put Social Security cuts in his budget for fiscal year 2014, and Republicans are thrilled."
 

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The more people you get not sucking off the govt tit long term the better. I personally have no interest in my tax dollars funding unemployment benefits for people who have been out of work for over a year.
 

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the '(et al)' applies to the coalition government in the uk too. very happy to whip the poor, needy, ill and disabled while handing tax cuts to the very rich.

and KTF40 have you no compassion for people who want to work but can't find jobs because of those greedy bankers? at least in the uk most people who receive benefits are actually in work but the pay is so poor they can't afford rent/mortgage, food and/or heating.

and this is supposed to be the civilised world!
 

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The more people you get not sucking off the govt tit long term the better. I personally have no interest in my tax dollars funding unemployment benefits for people who have been out of work for over a year.

They don't. Your federal taxes don't pay for anything or anyone.

If you want to live in a society that allows people to starve to death, just say so.
 

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YES, SARGON, and now they have the audacity to demand a higher minimum wage. my bridge club partners have their undies in a bunch !!! their hired help ACTUALLY expect Christmas eve and Christmas day off!!!!
 

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and KTF40 have you no compassion for people who want to work but can't find jobs because of those greedy bankers? at least in the uk most people who receive benefits are actually in work but the pay is so poor they can't afford rent/mortgage, food and/or heating.

and this is supposed to be the civilised world!
If you can't find a job because of a "greedy banker", yes I don't have compassion for you.
 

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" The world doesn't give a shit about me { or you }"
Randy the Ram
The Wrestler


They did a study at UCSF { where the doctor who came up with the type A and type B personality worked } and claimed the average person , by the time they are 18 , has heard the word NO at least 180,000 times. I believe phobias are caused by this fact of life in some people but i'm not sure.

Its a cold cold world and people react differently to it for whatever reasons. I see these giant conventions in sf held by oracle , apple , salesforce etc. and steams and steams of suits passing the homeless without a second look. Once in awhile one of them gives them a 20 or 50. From everything i've read philosophically and religiously i get the impression, correctly or not , that when everything is said and done the most important thing in life is what kind of heart you have. We'll find out if its true.
 

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You have not only the unemployable poor, and those who've, through no fault of their own, lost jobs and are unable to find another, but you also have the WORKING poor, those who work one, sometimes TWO jobs, but still don't have enough income.

NEVERTHELESS, I find the attitudes of SOME here REFRESHING, quite frankly. Why NOT just come on out and say "I don't give a FUCK about those people"? Why make a pretense of it?

How refreshing it'd be to see affluent people like the Koch brothers/GOP/Tea Party just come out and say, "I DON'T GIVE A FUCK ABOUT THOSE PEOPLE" rather than offer up bullshit misdirection and fantasy denouncements of some so-called "liberal job-killing agenda"? ...or make bogus claims that measures designed to help those in need are "unconstitutional"? Besides, worst case scenario, opponents of such RELIEF (apparently) can easily dismiss any harm done to people, directly or indirectly, by claiming IGNORANCE, due to "affluence". No foul.

So political hopefuls should just come out and say, "I don't give a FUCK about those people," and we the voter can then decide whether WE do or not and vote accordingly.
 
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How refreshing it'd be to see affluent people like the Koch brothers/GOP/Tea Party just come out and say, "I DON'T GIVE A FUCK ABOUT THOSE PEOPLE" rather than offer up bullshit misdirection and fantasy denouncements of some so-called "liberal job-killing agenda"? ...or make bogus claims that measures designed to help those in need are "unconstitutional"? Besides, worst case scenario, opponents of such RELIEF (apparently) can easily dismiss any harm done to people, directly or indirectly, by claiming IGNORANCE, due to "affluence". No foul.

So political hopefuls should just come out and say, "I don't give a FUCK about those people," and we the voter can then decide whether WE do or not and vote accordingly.

you're joking, right? how refreshing it WOULD be? the koch brothers are already doing this. tea party people are already doing it. they don't use the word FUCK of course but their voting records and their political influences speak for themselves.
 

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you're joking, right? how refreshing it WOULD be? the koch brothers are already doing this. tea party people are already doing it. they don't use the word FUCK of course but their voting records and their political influences speak for themselves.

Not really. They are no doubt saying how they really feel in plain language to each other, but to the general public, it's usually couched in rationale and bullshit like this:


Rand Paul: Unemployment Benefits Extension Would Be A 'Disservice' To Workers


Of course one would THINK their actions "speak for themselves" but some don't get it.

Some fall for deflections, spin, and bullshit focused on other things and other people, while the ones they SHOULD be worried about continue to SCREW them.
 

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I'd be curious to see how revenue going to the poor stacks up against revenue going to big companies (via subsidies and tax credits). I wonder if we're arguing about pennies but not paying attention to dollars....and if that's the point of all this "distraction."

ETA -- Hmmmm......

Think by Numbers


Different shade of lipstick on a different pig.

In the end, I too do not know how it stacks up, but if I were an elected government official, I'd rather have my electorate working at a job I subsidize, maybe learning a trade / skill, instead of sitting home collected the same subsidy.

No matter what your opinion on the subject, we as a nation are now competing with developing nations who are willing to do what we used to do for less money...
 

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The title of this thread is completely wrong, ignorant, misguided and shows how very little the originator knows about government in general. The title should read HOW THE GOVERNMENT STICKS IT TO THE POOR. Once we as a society agree that the real enemies of the state is the state itself there will be no change, we will continue to create false arguments of right vs left, because that is what the government wants us to do. Be distracted from the real issues.

Take a minute and do some research look at the salaries or income of politicians before they get into politics then look at their wealth after. It is startling that someone who makes $150K per year can become a millionaire a few years after being a politician. So is it really democrat or republican or is it the entire system that is F&(king us as plain as day.

Shift the argument to those that are creating the problem and accomplish real change.
 

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Take a minute and do some research look at the salaries or income of politicians before they get into politics then look at their wealth after. It is startling that someone who makes $150K per year can become a millionaire a few years after being a politician. So is it really democrat or republican or is it the entire system that is F&(king us as plain as day.

Look at "the system," but don't focus on the mere millionaires.