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On May 20, 8:58 pm, Zepp <d...@gone.com> wrote:
> Published on Alternet (http://www.alternet.org)
> Home > GOPer Who Got Millions in Farm Subsidies Thinks the Poor Should
> Starve Rather Than Get Food Stamps
> Daily Kos [1] / By Justin Doolittle [2]
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> GOPer Who Got Millions in Farm Subsidies Thinks the Poor Should Starve
> Rather Than Get Food Stamps
> May 20, 2013 |
>
> Stephen Fincher [3], a deranged Republican congressman from Tennessee, is
> very angry that the federal government is committed to preventing poor
> people from starving to death:
>
> Republican Congressman Stephen Fincher of Tennessee, who supports
> cuts to the program, had his own Bible verse from the Book of
> Thessalonians to quote back to Vargas: “The one who is unwilling to work
> shall not eat,” he said.
>
> The program in question is SNAP, better known as food stamps. Fincher and
> his ultra-right-wing friends in the House are furious about the fact that
> the worst economic crisis in 80 years has resulted in more Americans
> needing food stamps. The whole point of programs like SNAP and other
> automatic stabilizers, of course, is that they kick in when the economy
> is struggling and people need help. Fincher is shocked and horrified by
> this heinous policy of ensuring that poor people and their children don't
> starve. Food is to be earned! Sure, this is the richest country in the
> history in the world, but if we provide our citizens with food to eat,
> then freedom is obviously dead.
>
> He fulminates about people who are allegedly "unwilling to work" sucking
> off the government teat with impunity. This is a patently dishonest
> representation of the SNAP [4] program. Most people who receive food
> stamps cannot be dismissed as losers who are "unwilling to work." Nearly
> half (47%) of all food stamp recipients are children. Another 8% are 60
> years of age or older. The "working poor" - people who live in a
> household with income from work - represent another 41%. Between
> children, the elderly, the working poor, and people who want a job but
> cannot find one - someone should tell Fincher that there are still [5]
> more than 3 unemployed job seekers for every 1 opening - that leaves very
> few people who can be accurately described as being "unwilling" to work.
> It's also worth noting that the average monthly SNAP benefit is a
> whopping $287. It takes a deeply disturbed person to crusade against
> providing this class of people with food to eat, when the economy is this
> battered, and when the broad economic benefits [6] of the program have
> been so well established (at least in the reality-based community).
>
> Now, this would not normally be worthy of mention. Hardly a day goes by
> without some Republican sadist expressing fury that poor people have it
> so good. Devising new ways to make the peasants suffer is what makes
> Republicans wake up in the morning. What's fascinating about this
> particular case, though, is Fincher's background.
>
> The reason this is even more egregious than the usual Republican class
> warfare is that Fincher himself is a poster boy for government
> dependency. It's not just that he's benefited here and there from some
> government help. That sort of low-level hypocrisy is almost to be
> expected from these types. But Fincher has received millions - $3.2 [7]
> million as of June 2010 - in federal crop subsidies. The people who refer
> to themselves as Tea Partiers [8] threatened to derail his candidacy over
> this, but then they realized that they have no principles, and supported
> him anyway. He's now a member of the "Tea Party Caucus," which,
> amazingly, is something that actually exists. Fincher's brother and
> father also snatched another $6.7 million in subsidies as Stephen geared
> up to run for Congress on a platform of eliminating "wasteful government
> spending." The "wasteful spending" that he had in mind, of course, was
> that which serves policy aims with which he disagrees, such as keeping
> poor people alive.
>
> House Republicans are on a mission to slash the SNAP program by $20
> billion over the next decade. A Senate committee, just last week, voted
> to cut it by "only" $4 billion. If some sort of vicious "compromise" is
> reached between the sociopaths in the House who are demanding human
> sacrifice on a massive scale, and the "moderates" in the Senate who are
> only comfortable with letting some people starve, it will not be pretty.
> This is not hyperbole, either. SNAP really does keep poor people,
> including millions of children, from going hungry, and it's under attack
> from ultra-right-wing ideologues. This program deserves the support and
> activism of progressives as much as any government program in existence.
> See more stories tagged with:
> gop [9],
> republican [10]
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> thinks-poor-should-starve-rather-get-food-stamps
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> Not dead, in jail or a slave? Thank a liberal!
We have one of those here in NC. He got run out of our Republican
legislature for being a thief and a sleazebag. He's also a Stephen
--- Stephen LaRoque.
Matter of fact LaRoque should be on trial for perjury and money-
laundering right now in federal court:
http://www.newsobserver.com/2013/05/18/2901858/laroques-federal-theft-trial-gets.html
Yep, there he is with his attorney, Joe Cheshire V. They got a jury
seated yesterday in the federal courthouse of Greenville, NC, and
today they'll be taking testimony on this rogue.
Do a GOOGLE or BING on this scoundrel.
"RALEIGH, N.C. — As a powerful member of the Republican leadership in
the N.C. House, Rep. Stephen A. LaRoque railed for years against big
government and those who take taxpayer handouts."
Read more here: http://www.newsobserver.com/2013/05/20/2904735/criminal-trial-set-to-begin-for.html#storylink=cpy
___________________________________
Power slowly extirpates from the mind all humane and gentle virtues.
--- Edmund Burke
> Published on Alternet (http://www.alternet.org)
> Home > GOPer Who Got Millions in Farm Subsidies Thinks the Poor Should
> Starve Rather Than Get Food Stamps
> Daily Kos [1] / By Justin Doolittle [2]
> comments_image
> GOPer Who Got Millions in Farm Subsidies Thinks the Poor Should Starve
> Rather Than Get Food Stamps
> May 20, 2013 |
>
> Stephen Fincher [3], a deranged Republican congressman from Tennessee, is
> very angry that the federal government is committed to preventing poor
> people from starving to death:
>
> Republican Congressman Stephen Fincher of Tennessee, who supports
> cuts to the program, had his own Bible verse from the Book of
> Thessalonians to quote back to Vargas: “The one who is unwilling to work
> shall not eat,” he said.
>
> The program in question is SNAP, better known as food stamps. Fincher and
> his ultra-right-wing friends in the House are furious about the fact that
> the worst economic crisis in 80 years has resulted in more Americans
> needing food stamps. The whole point of programs like SNAP and other
> automatic stabilizers, of course, is that they kick in when the economy
> is struggling and people need help. Fincher is shocked and horrified by
> this heinous policy of ensuring that poor people and their children don't
> starve. Food is to be earned! Sure, this is the richest country in the
> history in the world, but if we provide our citizens with food to eat,
> then freedom is obviously dead.
>
> He fulminates about people who are allegedly "unwilling to work" sucking
> off the government teat with impunity. This is a patently dishonest
> representation of the SNAP [4] program. Most people who receive food
> stamps cannot be dismissed as losers who are "unwilling to work." Nearly
> half (47%) of all food stamp recipients are children. Another 8% are 60
> years of age or older. The "working poor" - people who live in a
> household with income from work - represent another 41%. Between
> children, the elderly, the working poor, and people who want a job but
> cannot find one - someone should tell Fincher that there are still [5]
> more than 3 unemployed job seekers for every 1 opening - that leaves very
> few people who can be accurately described as being "unwilling" to work.
> It's also worth noting that the average monthly SNAP benefit is a
> whopping $287. It takes a deeply disturbed person to crusade against
> providing this class of people with food to eat, when the economy is this
> battered, and when the broad economic benefits [6] of the program have
> been so well established (at least in the reality-based community).
>
> Now, this would not normally be worthy of mention. Hardly a day goes by
> without some Republican sadist expressing fury that poor people have it
> so good. Devising new ways to make the peasants suffer is what makes
> Republicans wake up in the morning. What's fascinating about this
> particular case, though, is Fincher's background.
>
> The reason this is even more egregious than the usual Republican class
> warfare is that Fincher himself is a poster boy for government
> dependency. It's not just that he's benefited here and there from some
> government help. That sort of low-level hypocrisy is almost to be
> expected from these types. But Fincher has received millions - $3.2 [7]
> million as of June 2010 - in federal crop subsidies. The people who refer
> to themselves as Tea Partiers [8] threatened to derail his candidacy over
> this, but then they realized that they have no principles, and supported
> him anyway. He's now a member of the "Tea Party Caucus," which,
> amazingly, is something that actually exists. Fincher's brother and
> father also snatched another $6.7 million in subsidies as Stephen geared
> up to run for Congress on a platform of eliminating "wasteful government
> spending." The "wasteful spending" that he had in mind, of course, was
> that which serves policy aims with which he disagrees, such as keeping
> poor people alive.
>
> House Republicans are on a mission to slash the SNAP program by $20
> billion over the next decade. A Senate committee, just last week, voted
> to cut it by "only" $4 billion. If some sort of vicious "compromise" is
> reached between the sociopaths in the House who are demanding human
> sacrifice on a massive scale, and the "moderates" in the Senate who are
> only comfortable with letting some people starve, it will not be pretty.
> This is not hyperbole, either. SNAP really does keep poor people,
> including millions of children, from going hungry, and it's under attack
> from ultra-right-wing ideologues. This program deserves the support and
> activism of progressives as much as any government program in existence.
> See more stories tagged with:
> gop [9],
> republican [10]
> Source URL:http://www.alternet.org/goper-who-got-millions-farm-subsidies-
> thinks-poor-should-starve-rather-get-food-stamps
> Links:
>
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> Not dead, in jail or a slave? Thank a liberal!
We have one of those here in NC. He got run out of our Republican
legislature for being a thief and a sleazebag. He's also a Stephen
--- Stephen LaRoque.
Matter of fact LaRoque should be on trial for perjury and money-
laundering right now in federal court:
http://www.newsobserver.com/2013/05/18/2901858/laroques-federal-theft-trial-gets.html
Yep, there he is with his attorney, Joe Cheshire V. They got a jury
seated yesterday in the federal courthouse of Greenville, NC, and
today they'll be taking testimony on this rogue.
Do a GOOGLE or BING on this scoundrel.
"RALEIGH, N.C. — As a powerful member of the Republican leadership in
the N.C. House, Rep. Stephen A. LaRoque railed for years against big
government and those who take taxpayer handouts."
Read more here: http://www.newsobserver.com/2013/05/20/2904735/criminal-trial-set-to-begin-for.html#storylink=cpy
___________________________________
Power slowly extirpates from the mind all humane and gentle virtues.
--- Edmund Burke
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