Thursday, January 11, 2024

QOTD -- Are There No Workhouses?

 

"Republican governors in 15 states are rejecting a new federally funded program to give food assistance to hungry children during the summer months, denying benefits to 8 million children across the country.

"The program is expected to serve 21 million youngsters starting around June, providing $2.5 billion in relief across the country.

"The governors have given varying reasons for refusing to take part, from the price tag to the fact that the final details of the plan have yet to be worked out. Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds (R) said she saw no need to add money to a program that helps food-insecure youths 'when childhood obesity has become an epidemic.' Nebraska Gov. Jim Pillen (R) said bluntly, 'I don’t believe in welfare.'” (our emphasis) -- news article by Annie Gowan, Washington Post, illustrating the social Darwinist philosophy of the Christofascist Republican Party, a.k.a., the "party of life," a.k.a., the "party of the working class." Despicable hacks.


2 comments:

Mr XD said...

Jim Pillen (R) said bluntly, 'I don’t believe iwelfare.'”
Unless, of course, it involves our sacred farmers and their divinely decreed Farm Subsidies.

Cleora Borealis said...

Oh, those little hobgoblin imps are really enjoying their foolish consistency these days. Every right-wing politician and pundit is on board with their little minds! When hungry children are too fat and nobody wants to work anymore and parts of planes are falling off because companies are only concentrating on diversity and families can't make ends meet due to Bidenomics and students are being sexually indoctrinated in schools by reading books, there is only one thing to do! Children should leave school completely and work without protections and bring underpaid incomes home to grateful parents and only learn how to tighten bolts so airplanes don't fall apart and avoid learning and only eat food they can afford from dangerous low-paying jobs even though everyone knows there is no nutrition in cheap foods and they cause obesity!! Good heavens, those happy, consistent hobgoblins are building the best workhouses because they won't cost the government a dime!! Every home in America will be the workhouse that Scrooge dreamt of!! ✊🤗