Republican Cruelty

[Pine Mt Beagles]

Republicans ,,Take Cruelty to a New Level By Denying Hungry Children Food.

When most Americans hear the word inhumane they likely think of human beings so cruel, heartless, and without compassion for misery or suffering of animals that they mistreat them for sheer pleasure. It is highly probable that some Americans who decry cruelty and inhumane treatment of animals are avid supporters of Republicans whose inhumanity towards other Americans, especially hungry children, far exceeds cruel mistreatment of animals.

Over the past two weeks Republicans have lined up behind Paul Ryan to support his attack on anti-poverty programs that takes aim at food assistance for the poor with special emphasis on children benefitting from food stamps, school lunches, and Head Start.

There is little argument that Republicans preventing Americans, especially working-poor Americans, from having access to healthcare exposes their lack compassion and is a hallmark of conservative cruelty.

But their new effort to take food out of the mouths of Americans and openly targeting hungry children to the delight of their equally inhumane supporters is beyond the pale. Apparently Republicans believe denying children food is a winning campaign strategy going into the 2014 midterm elections and it is likely their inhumane supporters will reward them handsomely.

It is not that Republicans are hungry and need the food that anti-poverty programs provide to hungry children; they simply do not want poor Americans to have basic sustenance because they are cruel savages. Even wild predators do not take food out of the mouths of other animals once their hunger has been satisfied and it is what elevates wild beasts above the heartless beasts in the conservative movement.

Perpetuating food insecurity in the poor is an idea Republicans and teabaggers embrace because taking food out of the mouths of the poor, whether working Americans, Veterans, senior citizens or children obviously gives them a high degree of satisfaction.

Conservatives believe the government wastes too much money helping the poor because they believe it is better to spend on subsidies for big oil, churches, corporations, and tax cuts for the richest Americans. According to Republicans, government assistance to feed children with free or reduced-price school lunches, food stamps, and programs such as Head Start is proof of liberals’ unfair wealth redistribution that teaches poor families earning poverty wages to hate their children.

Portraying government assistance recipients as less than human is a hold-over from Republicans’ man-god Reagan that has re-emerged as a dependable dog-whistle that is very popular with conservatives; especially since Americans elected an African American man as President.

The popularity of taking food from children among conservatives explains Republican protests that they are tired of giving “those blah people” free stuff using other people’s (read white people) money. Interestingly, it is Southern red states with predominately white Republican voters who take more taxpayer money for food stamps, healthcare, and other “free stuff” who will support Republicans in spite of their promise to take the food out of their own children’s mouths. Americans may remember that in inhumane Mormon country school officials ripped lunch trays away from dozens of elementary school children before they could eat anything, so any American that thinks Republicans will not take food away from poor children has not been paying attention.

The latest Republican to join Paul Ryan’s attack on school lunches is Representative Jack Kingston (R-GA) who is a primary candidate in the Georgia Senate race. Kinston argued that poor students must start earning that “free lunch” by forcing them to do janitorial work in school before they get their food. The barbaric Kinston hates the federal school lunch program, but is open to supporting the National School Lunch Program if poor students are forced to work for them to teach small children that nothing is free. Kingston said he talked to the Secretary of Agriculture about forcing the kids to sweep the floor of the cafeteria because “think what we would gain as a society in getting people — getting the myth out of their head that there is such a thing as a free lunch.”

What Kingston and all Republicans fully understand is that over 60% of school teachers report that students regularly come to school hungry and, as this author can attest, the problem is getting much worse according to a survey by No Kid Hungry. Republicans are anxious to make the problem incredibly worse and there is no doubt if they are able the school lunch program will be abolished if men like Paul Ryan and Kingston have their way.

[bluemouse]

Maybe you should take some time and explain how the Democrapheads run cities like Chicago, Detroit and the rest of the ghettos they created factor in with your logic clown. Oh wait no logic here just cut and paste from other liberal idiots.

[Pine Lakes]

Rufus and his ilk, create hungry children and the poor, then blame someone else for not feeding them. Talk about stupid.