Sometimes the Irony Makes You Quiver
I know you’re not supposed to stop your enemy when he’s committing suicide, but this is too amazing to ignore.
Republicans are pushing hard for cuts in food stamps, which apparently will result in fewer Republicans as they die of hunger.
Among the 254 counties where food stamp recipients doubled between 2007 and 2011, Republican Mitt Romney won 213 of them in last year’s presidential election, according to U.S. Department of Agriculture data compiled by Bloomberg. Kentucky’s Owsley County, which backed Romney with 81 percent of its vote, has the largest proportion of food stamp recipients among those that he carried.
And the winner of the snake oil salesman award for Republican bait and switching goes to Hal Rogers, the Republican chairman of the House Appropriations Committee. Rogers represents Owsley County and just won his 16th term with 84 percent of the vote.
More than half of the Owsley County’s population — 52 percent — received food stamps in 2011, the most recent yearly number available. The county, which in 2012 was 97.6 percent non-Hispanic white and had 4,722 residents, had a median household income of $19,344, well below the Kentucky median of $42,248 and the $52,762 figure nationally, U.S. census data shows. Roughly four in 10 residents live below the poverty line.
So, the chairman of the House Appropriations Committee represents a district that is so poor that they have to stay alive because they can’t afford to be buried. However, he’s trying his damn level best to kill them. And they vote for him to help him do it.
It’s the damnest thing ever.
Thanks to Carl for the heads up.
Just shows to go ya that propaganda works well among the uneducated.
1Forgive a little crowing but, a time or two, Uncle Dave has referred to the $20,000 a year millionaires who, against their own, interests, vote Republican. $19,344 is pretty close to $20,000. Voting Republican comfortably fits with their world view, racist and judgmental. Paradoxically, while voting against their own interests feels safe, voting logically, in their own best interest, scares them because it requires them to exam the world view to which they desperately cling.
2They will stand in line hungry to vote for the ones who keep them from being fed. Good Lord!
3Republicans have been very good at getting the poor white population to vote for them. Look at East Texas. West Va. Hot button issues such as guns, God and gays are often used–the under pinnings of the Repubs.
4And Hall Rogers has a reputation in Congress for the Best Shoulder Shrugger to any question who won’t answer for any reason.
5http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SfdEtW5DCAk
Unbelievable.
6Just heard from some one else who say this on the net. She figures they keep voting the way they do cuz they’ve been down so long it looks like up to them.
7I think they keep voting for these jerks because they don’t believe it’s going to affect them – just the ones who deserve it; you know, the other guy on food stamps.
8Well, it’s probably because they’d like to believe they don’t need food stamps, even if that’s what is keeping them fed because there aren’t any jobs to speak of out there. The real question is how do those of us who think government ought to be doing things about poverty reach those people. We ought to be on the same side.
9Snake oil salesman indeed.
I probably shouldn’t but I truly do feel sorry for those folks in his district. Yes, I know they voted for him. Yes, I know he’s working very hard to make their hard lives harder. But they probably ARE ill-educated and they probably ARE bumfuzzled by the fast talking misdirection of this huckster. It’s not fair and it’s not right.
10@Cheryl: Unbelievable. I have no words. Is this sort of ignorance only in the South? The remark about “We lost the War…” No description of “The War” since anyone knows which one.
11I need to go take a long, long shower then love on my kitties to get past this one.
@Cheryl: Unbelieveable yet so believeable.
@Jan … that kind of thinking isn’t limited just to the South. That kind of thinking goes on right here where I am in Colorado … and too many folks at the church I go to [and it’s an embarrassment to admit it] think people getting food stamps shouldn’t be able to have a dime in their pocket and, if they do, then by God they don’t deserve to get food stamps! Some of these folks are so ignorant of the fact that some folks working low paying jobs need food stamps to feed their families and to make it from month-to-month! They are all for yanking the assistance to “teach the adults a lesson” and be damned with the kids!
Yes, it is a total embarrassment to me to say I even know these cold hearted, tight-fisted pseudo-christians with their self-righteous attitudes.
12The South has already risen… in poverty, illness, ignorance and hatred. It’s as if a third world country exists inside the US and getting through to those poor, ignorant brainwashed b******s seems impossible.
13Tell those folks at church to quit going to WalMart then because a lot of WalMart employees are on food stamps.
14At least they won’t die from lack of compassion from fellow rethuglicans,not!!! If and when they do die,the state will have to bury the majority and rethuglicans will complain about them being on welfare from cradle to grave and it will be all Obama’s fault. From an old Guess Who song-Rich World/Poor World- I’d love to help- you get enough nutrition to perpetuate your misery a little further,but right now I have to finish this thesis on the divine right of Kings. See you tomorrow.
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