Comments on: Incoming GOP Congressman Can’t Wait to Cut Aid for Poor Kids https://www.bobcesca.com/incoming-gop-congressman-cant-wait-to-cut-aid-for-poor-kids/ We Cover The World Tue, 02 Dec 2014 14:23:00 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.1.7 By: swift_4 https://www.bobcesca.com/incoming-gop-congressman-cant-wait-to-cut-aid-for-poor-kids/#comment-72286 Tue, 02 Dec 2014 14:23:00 +0000 https://www.bobcesca.com/?p=102771#comment-72286 Wisconsin deserves everything they voted for. But their absolutely shitty voting has an impact on the rest of the country. That just makes me mad.

]]> By: GrafZeppelin127 https://www.bobcesca.com/incoming-gop-congressman-cant-wait-to-cut-aid-for-poor-kids/#comment-72283 Tue, 02 Dec 2014 01:30:00 +0000 https://www.bobcesca.com/?p=102771#comment-72283 The GOP and its allies have successfully turned the United States of America as the only nation in the history of the world that pities the rich and resents the poor, instead of the other way around. Congratulations to them; it’s a remarkable achievement.

]]> By: Christopher Foxx https://www.bobcesca.com/incoming-gop-congressman-cant-wait-to-cut-aid-for-poor-kids/#comment-72279 Tue, 02 Dec 2014 01:17:00 +0000 https://www.bobcesca.com/?p=102771#comment-72279 “There is no end-game for conservative policy regimes that call for cutting aid for the poor. The idea seems to be that, by simply cutting aid, factors that prohibited someone from achieving “success” will be eliminated through magic or osmosis, but when that doesn’t happen there is no recourse. There’s no there, there.”

Which is exactly what folks who propose, promote or support these “cut aid to the needy” efforts would be pressed on. “OK, let’s say your plan is put into effect. What does the person who’d been receiving this assistance do when it’s cut off?”

I expect the answers will be similar to (and as brain dead as) this guy’s explanation for why the gov’t shouldn’t help provide health insurance:

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