Moving beyond efforts to block expansion of health care for the poor and disabled, Republican governors in 15 states are now rejecting a new, federally funded summer program to give food assistance to hungry children.
The program is expected to serve 21 million youngsters starting around June, providing $2.5 billion in relief across the country.
So we have to take away people’s rights for the sake of unborn children, but as soon as they’re born, they’re on their own? Am I understanding that right? The Republican platform seems to just be ‘• Needless Cruelty, no matter what’ and ‘• Make the government as dysfunctional as we tell people it is’.
No, not at all! Just as soon as they’re poor. If they’d had the strength of character to be born rich then we wouldn’t need to punish them for the sin of being poor.
They think that way they’ll get more cheap workers and can fill their pockets exploiting them, but it will just turn their states into absolute shitholes and people will move to better states.
Making the government as dysfunctional as possible is a major component of their strategy for governance.
Why act in good faith in service to your constituents when you can make things worse and get reelected when you point to how poorly you run things and call it “government waste”?
American voters fail to see this connection and thus continue the churn of ineffective government.