{"id":10228,"date":"2013-04-08T04:16:01","date_gmt":"2013-04-08T11:16:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=10228"},"modified":"2013-04-08T04:16:01","modified_gmt":"2013-04-08T11:16:01","slug":"gop-claims-poverty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2013\/04\/08\/gop-claims-poverty\/","title":{"rendered":"GOP Claims Poverty"},"content":{"rendered":"

As absurd as this may sound, an anchor from the Republican Ministry of Propaganda, Faux Noise<\/em>, had the audacity to claim that the reason Republicans are intransigent about their economic stance is that America does not have the money to do otherwise.  Horse feathers!<\/font><\/p>\n

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\"FoxSheep\"On "This Week," Greta Van Susteren failed miserably in her attempt to explain Republicans’ ideological refusal to raise taxes…<\/p>\n

…Let’s start with her claim that "people" don’t want to "take the safety net away" with the fact that Republicans have signed on to a budget which slashes the safety net to give tax cuts to rich people, authored by an Ayn Rand disciple<\/a> who once complained that the nation’s "takers" outnumbered our "makers"<\/a> and famously derided Social Security as a "hammock."<\/a> <\/p>\n

Oh, and by the way, the new chairman of the Heritage Foundation just went on Van Susteren’s network and basically called 70 million Americans welfare queens.<\/a><\/p>\n

So to argue Republicans don’t want to get rid of the safety net is to literally argue that up is down…<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Inserted from <Crooks and Liars<\/a>><\/p>\n

Here\u2019s the video:<\/font><\/p>\n

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Of course, it\u2019s standard for Republicans to say that they are not doing what they are doing, while projecting what they are doing onto Democrats.<\/font><\/p>\n

As far as their poverty is concerned, I can not only say that Americans do have the money, but also, tell you where it is.  Vulture capitalists have rat-holed enough money in offshore tax havens to pay off the entire national debt several times over.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As absurd as this may sound, an anchor from the Republican Ministry of Propaganda, Faux Noise, had the audacity to claim that the reason Republicans are intransigent about their economic stance is that America does not have the money to do otherwise.  Horse feathers! On "This Week," Greta Van Susteren failed miserably in her attempt […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10228\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}