God Bless America
There’s some good news coming from House Republicans: children in America no longer have to fret about dying due to lack of health care. We’re going to starve them to death. No need for health care then, eh?
Last month, the Senate slashed the Supplemental Assistance Nutrition Program by $4.5 billion, and now the House increased that by $12 billion more. If you are a working family of three and you have an annual income of more than $24,100 annually, you’re rolling in the dough and don’t need no damn food.
Plus …
According to the Congressional Budget Office (CBO), 280,000 children in low-income families whose eligibility for free school meals is tied to their receipt of SNAP would lose free meals when their families lost SNAP benefits.
According to Matthew, when Sweet Jesus comes again, his first question to us will be “Did you feed the hungry?”
That’s the first damn question. Not, did you have a prayer meeting in a football stadium? Did you wave a flag around? Did you hide your money in Swiss bank accounts?
Ya know what? If we want God to bless America, then maybe America should start blessing God.
Oh Lord, I hope the second question isn’t, “did you just hate Republicans for being total jerks?” because if it is, I’m going to hell, too.
Thanks to Norma for the heads up.
Wow, I never in a million years thought I’d feel such animosity toward a whole group of people.
1Has the State Idiot, errr, I mean Governor, moved into the brand spankin’ new Gov Mansion yet? I think that would be a great place for him to hold a weekly farmers market/food bank open to all Texans kicked off SNAP.
Perhaps there’s a open public space near the Mansion where folks can meet up, play their vuvuzulas, drums, etc… well into the night to assuage their hunger. Of course, they can also take time to walk around the Mansion to see the lovely detailed workmanship their taxes paid for.
Today’s Chron set me off. This quote by retired teacher Bill Nelson should be posted on billboards all over Texas:
“It’s politics. It’s a competition to see who can be the most brutally conservative. I don’t think they are looking out for the people of Texas.”
Literally taking food out of the mouths of babes will definitely send these cretins to Hell. And, as you said, JJ, depending on that second question, I’m may be going too. You bring the beer & I’ll bring the heiny paddles – we’re gonna be busy.
2Sounds like the Republican’s next step for dealing with poor children will be A Modest Proposal (google it).
3This is just too sad even to make me angry right this minute. It will take a few to summon up the energy for anger.
4Isn’t it amazing, the most precious thing in the universe to anti-abortionists like Perry is the unborn human being.
But freshly popped out of the oven, it’s a freeloader.
5Jonathan Swift wrote The Modest Proposal as satire. I am afraid that if it came to light now, today’s Repugs would actually take it as a great idea whose time has come.
6For years, as some speeding 18-wheeler bullied past me on 45 I thought to myself, go ahead brother, Hell ain’t half full yet. And so I now say to the Texas executive and most of the Texas and US Lege, go ahead brother, Hell ain’t half full yet.
7@ Cheryl: I hate to say it, but I think you nailed it…
8A Modest Proposal gives new meaning to the words lamb chop!
9The Republicans will not be satisfied until they see widows and orphans on the street corners with tin cups begging for enough money to buy one more meal.
10Make room for me in hell. I’m with ya, Sistas. I’ll bring an unbreakable set of shot glasses and some fine, dark sipping tequila from a private stash I know about in the Baja. We’re gonna need it after we break out the heiny paddles and get busy whipping us some Repugnant Booties.
Is it OK to whack them up side the head, too? So many of them have their heads up…….. you get the picture.
11Juanita, if you ever went to Hell, which I doubt, it would be SRO with all the Republican/Teabaggers and god botherers there.
12Anybody remember what started the French Revolution? Is this deja vu? Better start learning to knit.
13I use up enough energy hating them for inaction on climate change and preference for industry over environment and health. And stealing elections by blocking voters, though that’s at states’ level. And wanting to strip women’s control over their lives. I don’t have a lot to spare for the way they demonize poor people, but I’ll see what I can do.
14“And if he shall neglect to hear them, tell it unto the church: but if he neglect to hear the church, let him be unto thee as an heathen man and a publican.” Matthew 18:17
If Jesus felt this way about publicans, how must he feel about re-publicans?
15“did you just hate Republicans for being total jerks?”
My answer would be “No, I hate them for being Grasping, Odious, Putrid people”. If I go to hell for that, so be it as long as I see these people there too. I know why I’d be there, but I can imagine how horrified these sanctimonious people would be to find themselves in hell because they believed themselves to be such “christians” in real life.
16@LynnN, that’s a great essay and strangely apt for the times. When I read it in HS, it reminded me of Reagan’s “welfare queens”.
A good book is “Rachel and her Children”, a look at homeless families in the US and how government rules for welfare, food stamps, etc were literally tearing apart families. It was originally published in 1988, but I believe would still hold true today.
Here’s another interesting take:
http://www.politicususa.com/poor-americans-paying-price-red-states-opting-aca.html
17@Cheryl – They can add “A Modest Proposal” to their other instruction manuals… “1984”, “Brave New World” and “It Can’t Happen Here”…
@Jan – Yep, I can knit…just call me Md. DeFarge… 😉
18Bastille Day is just around the corner and just like in 1789 we will one day grow so angry at the injustice and oppression of the GOP that we will storm the walls and take Texas back for the people!
19What happened to “what you do to the least among us, you do to me”. Jesus said that but a lot of born agains forget it.
20The lead mover and shaker that did most of the violence in this travesty was a blue dog Democrat from Minnesota – Colin Peterson. A typical politician who forgot his background.
21Cheryl, the Repubs would not only take A Modest Proposal seriously (it would certainly deal with that annoying problem of what to do with sacred fetuses when they become actual babies), they would write a cookbook and call it “To Serve Man.”
22If there really was, in fact, a god. The GOP wouldn’t exist.
23Thank you Lucinda, glad to know I’m not the only one with the feeling that somebody out there mixed up the great dystopian novels with the civics textbooks. Of course once they got old Rayguns to stand there looking all sincere and talking absolute flapdoodle it was a very short step to adopting the Big Lie as THE major campaign strategy and isn’t Mittens doing St. Ronnie proud?
24There’s also the fact that the Republicans are an aging demographic and if we can impoverish enough Americans it will be easier to buy new organs locally. Every time I see Cheney I can’t help thinking about Bug Jack Barron by Norman Spinrad.
25there should be a term limit in congress and the senate just as there is for a president. We also need a term limit on the Supreme Court.
26Anyone older than 70 years should not be in the Government.
Also the salaries are much too high. And they retire with high retirement checks. They are what is breaking the backs of the country.
If there is a God The GOP will never make it to Heaven.