{"id":12854,"date":"2014-05-25T02:50:17","date_gmt":"2014-05-25T09:50:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=12854"},"modified":"2014-05-25T02:50:17","modified_gmt":"2014-05-25T09:50:17","slug":"feed-bag-hypocrites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2014\/05\/25\/feed-bag-hypocrites\/","title":{"rendered":"Feed Bag Hypocrites"},"content":{"rendered":"

I\u2019ve seen school lunches.  I don\u2019t see how one could cost more than a couple dollars.  I\u2019ve seen how people, who have to live on food stamps eat.  Calling it meager is an understatement.  On the other hand, in my youth, I used to wait tables in some rather high end establishments, and have seen wall street types drop several hundred dollars (in 1960s money), while partying on the company credit card.  So, what do these have in common?<\/font><\/p>\n

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\"0525BusDin\"Ah, progress! In the 2012 elections, Republicans cast themselves as budget balancers by promising to whack welfare programs for the poor, snarling that such people are "takers" and "moochers."<\/p>\n

Such vindictive sourness didn’t play too well with voters, and Republicans now seem to have learned their lesson. Oh, they’re still going after food stamps, school lunches, etc. with a vengeance \u2013 but this time, with a gentle, even loving tone.<\/p>\n

The GOP’s official message massagers now have their members saying that they want to "help the poor" by eliminating those programs, referring to them as soulless giveaways that sap their initiative and tether them to the cold, uncaring hand of government. The message is: We’re doing this for the poor people’s own good. Their chief budgeteer, Rep. Paul Ryan, trotted this theme out at a recent right-wing rally, condemning school lunches as unloving "Obamafare" plopped on plates by unsmiling cafeteria personnel: "What they’re offering people is a full stomach and an empty soul," he oozed.<\/p>\n

If that doesn’t make you gag, try another subsidized lunch program that tender-hearted GOP budget whackers never mention, much less demand that it be eliminated. It’s the tax subsidy for corporate meals, drinks, and entertainment. Multimillionaire CEOs can go wining and dining on your and my dime, writing off their high-dollar lunches, cocktails, dinners, and club hopping as a business expense. And expensive it is for us taxpayers \u2013 this subsidy adds up to more than $12 billion a year<\/strong>\u2026 [emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Inserted from <Jim Hightower<\/a>><\/p>\n

What they have in common is that YOU pay for both of them.  Personally, I\u2019m happy top kick-in for school lunches, but not for Bankster banquets.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I\u2019ve seen school lunches.  I don\u2019t see how one could cost more than a couple dollars.  I\u2019ve seen how people, who have to live on food stamps eat.  Calling it meager is an understatement.  On the other hand, in my youth, I used to wait tables in some rather high end establishments, and have seen […]<\/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-12854","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\/12854","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=12854"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12854\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}