Well…I have almost been laughing at the sudden concern that the repubs have been showing for poverty in the US….ignoring the fact that it is just election year pandering and lies, there is a demographic component to this new found concern that can’t be ignored. When the face of poverty in the US was the brown “other”, it was easy for the majority white party to ignore them since they were lazy and it was their own fault that they were poor…but now, with the increasingly white face that is repub caused poverty..,.caused by the policies of the repubs that want to destroy unions, the social safety net, and outsource jobs…they no longer want to ignore the problem since, even in poverty, these poor whites will continue to be their constituents…not like the minorities who are just takers who don’t deserve representation. This overt racism is so evident in all of the repub party today that it will be interesting to see the pretzels that will have to be made with their logic…may even see some heads explode…hope so…geez…
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Just a short one about nonsense..
Well…with the news that came out today that 1 in 6 people in the US now lives in poverty, I wonder why the President and the rest of the dems aren’t shouting from the rooftops that this is a direct result of the policies of the repubs and their cronies in business that has taken back all of the progress that has been made by workers over the past 40 years. And now, the only program that keeps more and more seniors out of those growing ranks is under attack by all of the repub presidential contenders. Another question that comes to mind in all of this debate is why are seniors who will be the most affected by the proposed shredding of this last safety net so reliably republican? I didn’t think people got that stupid as they age….at least I had hoped it wouldn’t happen….but when you get people cheering at the tea party sponsored debate when a question was asked about a 30 year old being left to die if he decided to not buy health insurance….I do fear for this country and it’s continued slide into the meanness that is part and parcel of these folks….