Gord's Notebook : GOP Hatred Of The Poor Whom They Characterize as "Useless Eaters" and the Fascist Republican Assault on America

Romney: If you're looking for more free stuff, vote for the other guy

Poor American Family living in a car or What most Americans refuse to believe.

GOP/Republicans Comment on the poor : "Let them eat… nothing!

"Will the Republicans finally be happy when we’re all living in a country that resembles Mad Max far more than it does Leave it to Beaver? Is this what the Republicans want?"

And Richard Metzger continues commenting on Rand Paul and extremist libertarians and conservatives and the GOP and Tea Party Mob and the followers of hate-filled wacky Fascist Ayn Rand :

...Rand Paul would tell you this himself: Food, like healthcare, is not a right! If some Americans have to starve to death, this is what it takes to preserve our freedom!

...It’s a very black and white situation: Vote a certain way and millions of people go hungry. Vote a certain way and INSURE an increase in misery for the weakest members of society (just like Jesus would want!).

Above Quotes from:
THE GOP’S ‘USELESS EATERS’ SOLUTION: NO MORE FOOD FOR YOU, POOR PEOPLE! by Richard Metzger at dangerousminds.net, 06/01/2011

And according to RMuse at Politicus points out that the Republicans anyone on social assistance /Food Stamps etc. will be cut off if they own a car-

At a time when 46 million Americans (one half are children) depend on food stamps to avoid dire poverty and daily hunger, Republicans who created this sluggish economy decided that several million poor Americans should lose their eligibility to qualify for assistance because it is the fiscally responsible thing to do. The Republican plan eliminates “categorical eligibility” which means that a family living at or below the poverty line that owns a dependable car will be cut off of food assistance.

Republicans Cut off Food Assistance to Millions of Americans who own a Car By: Rmuse at PoliticusUSA.com, July 7th, 2012

In their quest to transform the country into a corporatist theocracy, Republicans are using the ignorance and stupidity of a significant segment of the population to incite violent reactions to every policy proposed by President Obama. Americans got a glimpse of the stupidity in the teabagger movement during the healthcare reform debate two years ago, and despite the availability of information about the myriad benefits of the health law, it appears that, coupled with racism, that particular group is still stupid and becoming a hazard to the security of the entire population. In the 24 hours after the Supreme Court’s ruling that the Affordable Care Act is constitutional, the combination of ignorance, stupidity, and racism exposed the threat of a violent uprising against the government of the United States.

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Republican ‘Patriots’ Terrorize America with Calls for Armed Insurrection By: Rmuse at Politicus USA.com,June 30th, 2012

In case you missed it Ed Schultz at MSNBC in April lays bare Mitt Romney's war on the poor under the guise of fighting wastefulness and inefficiency of Big government and its entitlement programs .

The reality is that Romney is just anti-government and favors the private sector and believes in deregulated unfettered 19th century Gilded age Capitalism of the old Robber Barons whom he and the GOP admire while they trash the poor and other disadvantaged groups. The thing is Romney only cares about the super-rich like himself but will use his rhetoric to give himself a veneer of being some knew mutated form of so-called "Compassionate Conservative ".

But as we saw with George W. Bush these conservative are only compassionate about their rich friends on Wall Street and those like themselves in other countries. Romney appears as another adherent to the theology and philosophy and ideology and Fascistic program of Doug Coe's cult called "The Family" for the super rich and the politically powerful including thsome of the worse dictators and authoritarian governments around the globe as long as they are pro-capitalism and anti-Communism.

The ED Show - Mitt Romney's War on the Poor and disabled and veterans

Published on 23 Apr 2012 by Licentiathe8th
Mitt Romney's proposed budget would slash spending-- but he won't touch Medicare or Social Security. So what programs would Romney cut? Ed Schultz explains, and then talks with Ben LaBolt of the Obama campaign.

Richard Metzger aptly characterizes Republican draconian attitude towards the poor and others who are dependent upon government entitlement programs to the attitude of Adolph Hitler's notion of so-called "useless eaters" whom Hitler believed should either gassed or left to starve to death:

THE GOP’S ‘USELESS EATERS’ SOLUTION: NO MORE FOOD FOR YOU, POOR PEOPLE! by Richard Metzger at dangerousminds.net, 06/01/2011

Let them eat… nothing!

There is currently a record number of Americans—14%—relying on federal food stamp assistance programs and that number is probably not going to shrink, but grow, in the near term, as more and more desperate Americans exhaust their unemployment benefit extensions. The number of recipients has risen 11% since last year and over 61% since 2007. At present there are an incredible 45 million people (21 million families) who depend on this assistance to put food in their bellies. So that they and their children do not go to bed hungry. (My parents run a food kitchen for the poor out of their church basement in West Virginia, the stories I’ve heard are sad and pitiful.)

If the evil Republicans get their way, these poor families, school-age children, veterans of foreign wars and disabled people can just… starve… Via ABC News:

The Republicans’ 2012 budget plan proposes changing SNAP [“Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program”] from an entitlement to a block-grant program that would be tailored for each individual state, much like their proposal for Medicaid. States would no longer receive open-ended subsidies and the aid would be contingent on work or job training. It would also limit funding for the program.

“Limit funding”? In certain states (see New Mexico, Florida, Michigan) they’d just eliminate it entirely.

Why should poor people think they have some kind of a right to eat?

Rand Paul would tell you this himself: Food, like healthcare, is not a right! If some Americans have to starve to death, this is what it takes to preserve our freedom!

It amazes me that Republicans think stirring up these kinds of vicious class resentments somehow helps them politically... Do they really expect that these folks will simply STOP EATING AND DIE?

Well, judging from the GOP’s behavior, maybe they do! How else do you explain away this particular aspect of “compassionate conservatism”? Well… now that you mention if, it would certainly help balance the budget if a ton of poor people died. Why just think of the tax cuts for the rich!

Will the Republicans finally be happy when we’re all living in a country that resembles Mad Max far more than it does Leave it to Beaver? Is this what the Republicans want? It sure seems that way to me. If not that, then what? What am I missing???

...It’s a very black and white situation: Vote a certain way and millions of people go hungry. Vote a certain way and INSURE an increase in misery for the weakest members of society (just like Jesus would want!).

And in another attack on government entitlement programs for the poor the Republicans have pushed to pass bill which cuts off such financial help to anyone " who owns a dependable car".

Republicans Cut off Food Assistance to Millions of Americans who own a Car By: Rmuse at PoliticusUSA.com, July 7th, 2012

It can be rightly presumed that extremely severe and unusually cruel conduct that is mutinous to the rules of right or virtuous conduct is considered Draconian, or in 2012 terminology, Republican.

It seems that every budget proposal or new legislation submitted by the GOP is another opportunity for them to show their lack of compassion for the American people and apparently there is no end to the depth of depravity they are willing to go to cause suffering in the populace to reward corporate America.

This week, Republicans in the House maintained their reputation as Draconian stewards of America’s purse strings and crafted a “compromise” farm bill that cuts billions of dollars from the Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program (SNAP) or informally, food stamps, and increases farm subsidies to the corporate agriculture industry.

At a time when 46 million Americans (one half are children) depend on food stamps to avoid dire poverty and daily hunger, Republicans who created this sluggish economy decided that several million poor Americans should lose their eligibility to qualify for assistance because it is the fiscally responsible thing to do. The Republican plan eliminates “categorical eligibility” which means that a family living at or below the poverty line that owns a dependable car will be cut off of food assistance. According to Republicans, a dependable automobile will be figured in to the family’s income and when they are near the eligibility cut-off point, even a moderately-priced used car sends them over the limit. The plan also means that several hundred thousand low-income children will lose access to free or reduced-priced school meals based on the elimination of categorical eligibility. It is the perfect method for Republicans to punish poor Americans by not only cutting off food assistance at home, but completes the hunger cycle by keeping children hungry throughout the school day.

The GOP plan forces low-income families to choose between owning a dependable car to commute to their jobs and feeding their families and it may be a new low for Republicans, but as the past year-and-a-half has shown, they can always exceed their current Draconian spending habits, especially where the poor are concerned. In fact, since they took control of the House in 2011, Republicans have worked diligently to portray any social safety net spending as wasteful regardless that, at its peak, the SNAP program was only .52% of GDP and it kept 5 million Americans from sinking into abject poverty in 2011, and cut the number of children living in extreme poverty by 50%. However, Republicans are unfazed by a UNICEF report that ranked the United States in second place for the percentage of children living in poverty at 23.1% behind Latvia, and above 33 of the world’s richest countries of which America is the richest, so achieving number one status is within their reach.

This moral depravity on the part of Republicans is not a matter of fiscal responsibility, because every food dollar spent generates $1.80 in economic activity that creates jobs, increases tax revenue, and keeps millions of Americans and their children out of extreme poverty. Each food dollar spent also gives farmers $.21 besides their subsidies, and with high crop and land prices, and a record $136.3 billion in farm exports in 2011, it is egregious to cut food stamps while increasing subsidies. In fact, for the first time in 2011, farm income exceeded $100 billion and so far this year it is forecast to reach $91.7 billion, the second-highest on record. Still, it is not good enough for the agri-corp industry and Republicans who are duty-bound to give as much taxpayer dollars to corporations at the expense of working-poor, elderly, and children to create a population of peasants barely subsisting to bolster the wealthy’s profits.

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Fighting Back Against the Republican Violation of America By: Rmuse at Politicus USA.com, June 10th, 2012

The formal statement of the meaning of a word is a definition, and it normally is tied explicitly to context to express power and significance to make a point. There are some words that do not necessitate context to relay meaning, and attempting to change the definition informs a level of deceit and subterfuge concealing an agenda unrelated to the original meaning of a word. Republicans have attempted to redefine myriad words to support their fascist agenda of transforming America into an oligarchy or promote divisive theocratic issues such as their “religious liberty” meme aimed at banning contraception. Last year, Republicans in Congress attempted to redefine rape to demean sexual assault victims, but despite their attempt, rape is a word that defies contextual significance as it denotes degradation, debasement, physical brutality, anger, and contempt for a victim that describes the current Republican agenda and purpose in their drive to control America.

For the past three years, Republicans have set about raping the American people who are not members of the wealthiest two percent of income earners, and their assault on Americans was joined by uber-rich industrialists Charles and David Koch with the Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision that legalized aggressive dispensation of democracy, and after the 2010 midterm elections, it is being played out before Americans’ eyes. The millions of dollars to defend Scott Walker in Wisconsin’s recall election, Florida’s voter purge, and attacks on public workers are the purview of the Koch brothers and they have a new ally in Republican presidential candidate Willard Romney. This week, Romney provided ample evidence if he is elected president in November, he will assist the Koch brothers in ravaging the economic life out of every American.

Willard told an audience in Iowa that “It’s time for us to cut back on firemen, policemen, and teachers,” and he cited the recent gubernatorial recall vote in Wisconsin as a sign Americans want him to destroy middle class America to complete the Republican assault of ninety-eight percent of the population. Romney’s reference that the American people “got the message of Wisconsin” verifies his corporatist, elitist sensibilities. The Koch brothers and their cabal are more secretive than Romney, but despite his candor, Romney intends to implement the Koch agenda of oligarchic rule and elimination of the government. Don’t believe it? Romney said, “It’s time for us to cut back on government and help the American people,” and it is part of his plan to eliminate several departments and government agencies whose only purpose is to “help the American people.”

This idea that government is a pariah is straight out of anti-American Ronald Reagan’s ideology that began the conservative movement toward oligarchy, and its resurgence is directly related to the election of the first African American president. Republicans are relieving Americans of their voting rights, retirement, healthcare, education, jobs, homes, and now Romney wants to eliminate teachers, firefighters, and police officers. In normal times, Republicans exempt police and firefighters from their attacks on public employees, and even fascist Scott Walker only attacked teachers in his attempt to break union representation and eliminate collective bargaining. It is difficult to quantify the level of disconnect Romney has with the American people who, especially after 9/11, consider in the vein of the military, and it defines his contempt for the safety of the populace to use government employees as a means of dividing citizens over public sector workers. However, since the 2010 elections Republicans have abandoned any attempt at concealing their contempt for the government or the people, and for the first time in recent memory are campaigning as anti-government champions to replace it with a corporate oligarchy and privatization.

It is evident, now, that Republicans and their corporate funding machine are ravaging America and its citizenry in every possible way to express their power, contempt, and dominance over their victims. The Koch brothers and their surrogates in the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), Republican governors, legislators, and presidential aspirant are on a destructive path to eliminate the government, veteran's benefits, voting rights, living wage jobs, healthcare, social safety nets, retirement, and freedom of and from religious imposition, and there is no group that is safe from their intented assaults. Romney’s promise to cut back on police and firefighters to “help the American people” is the ultimate expression of his contempt for the majority of Americans, and it is not out of the realm of possibility that he will propose privatizing law enforcement and fire protection to enrich a corporation wholly owned and operated by Koch Industries or Bain Capital.

Romney says this election is to decide what kind of country America will be in the future, and he has, with his speech Friday, laid out his solution for America’s democracy and it includes more entitlements for the rich, eliminating large portions of the government, war with Iran, Russia, and China, and a generation of uneducated, lawless, and poverty-stricken peasants where $19,000 is a great middle-class income and gays, women, minorities, and non-Christians are relegated to third-class status. It is no coincidence that Romney’s vision for America mirrors the Koch brothers, Heritage Foundation, and Libertarian ideology that government exists to protect the wealthy and their corporate interests and the rest of the population subsists to serve as cannon fodder and slaves to big business and religious fanatics.

It is astounding that more Americans are not repulsed by Romney and Koch’s plans to strip mine America, but there is no accounting for racists and religious fanatics, and the irony is they will be among the first to feel the wrath of oligarchy and fascism. One would think that when President Obama pushes for more middle class jobs to elevate the populace to realize the American dream, the people would oppose the Republican agenda and particularly Willard Romney’s intent on creating a new class of peasants, but the racial hatred and suspicion instigated by the Koch brothers, Romney, and Republicans is too appealing to a pathetic segment of the population and their hatred blinds them to the impending doom they will facilitate with their bigotry and support for the conservative agenda. Republicans and their funding machine are sucking the life out of America, its democracy, and its people and they have no intention of ceasing their assault until they have finished asserting their issues of mastery, control, strength, authority and conquest of every American who is not a member of the wealthy elite. It is a sad commentary, but like victims of Stockholm Syndrome, a large majority of Americans are enabling them, and in many cases, appear to relish their role assisting their assailants with undying racist and theocratic support.

Since President Obama was elected to the present there have been calls from various conservative , republican and the Right-wing to if necessary stage a violent overthrow of the Obama government. Such over the top rhetoric is dangerous since at some point some individuals or groups may decide that the time has come for a violent revolution based in part upon racist conspiracy theories or imaginary fear of the danger posed by the socialist/commie Red Menace or by Muslim Americans and Black Americans since the right has promulgated the notion that Obama is not a "Real American" ie Obama is a socialist a commie, a secret Muslim or part of the "New World Order" (NWO) Conspiracy . So do they really fear Obama's policies or is it just a simple matter of racism or that Obama is a Democrat.

Republican ‘Patriots’ Terrorize America with Calls for Armed Insurrection By: Rmuse at Politicus USA.com,June 30th, 2012

There are Americans openly discussing armed insurrection to overthrow the government based on the notion that the worst form of tyranny this country has ever witnessed is the Affordable Care Act’s constitutionality.

A list of comments labeled “Hilarious Reactions to the High Court’s Ruling” on a liberal website are not remotely humorous, and only serve to inspire more hatred toward President Obama among stupid Americans who lack the ability to discern between a legally passed law upheld by the High Court and tyranny against the citizens of the United States. A Michigan lawyer emailed numerous media outlets asking, “Is Armed Rebellion Now Justified? There are times government has to do things to get what it wants and holds a gun to your head. I’m saying we have to ask when do we turn that gun around and say no and resist.”

...A(s ) Breitbart activist claimed, “This is the greatest destruction of individual liberty since Dred Scott… the end of America as we know it. No exaggeration.” A conservative blogger Tweeted, “We don’t just need a new president. We need a revolution.”

...The Christian extremist Bryan Fischer said Chief Justice Roberts “is going down in history as the justice that shredded the Constitution and turned it into a worthless piece of parchment,” and the teabagger group Freedomworks said, “the power to tax is the power to destroy.”

...Another conservative blogger wrote that “someone got to Roberts and told him he has to vote this way or members of his family – kids, wife, parents, whoever – were going to be killed.”

Now, any semi-conscious American with a rudimentary understanding of the legislative process may find these assertions hilarious, but there are plenty of angry, racist, stupid, and extremely well-armed Americans who perceive the court’s ruling as a threat to themselves and their ignorant concept of American liberty. Their perception of tyranny is being co-opted by Republicans who use coded language and sometimes overt proclamations that the only solution to President Obama’s tyranny is a “2nd Amendment remedy” and armed rebellion.

... A Republican in the House of Representatives, Michele Bachmann, told residents of Minnesota that she wants them to be “armed and dangerous” if the federal government attempted to implement laws she felt were impinging on their freedoms, and the infamous 2nd Amendment remedy solution to a Democratically-controlled Congress originated with a candidate for the U.S. Senate from Nevada. However, there are less overt buzz-words and catch-phrases being used on a daily basis by Republicans that are instigating violence-tinged reactions across the country from seriously stupid and tragically ignorant Americans.

When Willard Romney says “Obamacare is the government takeover of health care and intrusion in our lives,” the implication to moronic Americans is tyranny in the same sense as “government overreach” into Christians’ lives. Romney claims President Obama is “undermining religious freedom” and it is as provocative to Christians as taking their precious guns and bibles away. During the lead up to the 2010 midterm elections, this author interview four leaders of the largest evangelical churches in a large California city for a newspaper article on religion in politics, and when the preachers were asked if their tactics were at all like Afghanistan’s Taliban, the spokesman leaned over, smiled and said, “no, we are better organized, better funded, and more heavily armed,” and that “we have a list with your name near the top with that Black tyrant in the Oval Office.” Is it sinking in yet that these racist Christian super-patriots are a danger to the security of every man, woman, and child in America? It should.

The persistent talking points by Republicans throughout President Obama’s term have been to incite opposition to his policies and his existence as President. Romney and the rest of Republican representatives in Congress know well that the ACA is good for the American people and that it will not increase the deficit, kill jobs, or create death panels, and yet they parrot those fallacies on a daily basis. Whether or not Republicans are deliberately inciting stupid Americans toward violence is unknown, but for those of us who are stalked, have death threats nailed to our front doors, or pick up the phone to hear graphic details of our family’s dismemberment and demise, it is their persistent references to tyranny, government intrusion, and religious persecution that are part and parcel of the impending violence toward liberals, gays, Jews, and the government.