Obama is being called the food stamp president. And they don't mean isn't it problematic so many people are hungry on his watch. No. It is the fact that so many are getting help by receiving food stamps that is the issue. How can the impression you are trying to feed the hungry, whether it is true or not, be purposely cultivated by political opponents in an effort to discredit you? How can an illusion of compassion for the hungry be used against you? And even more disgusting, how can it actually be working? There is something so morally, ethically, spiritually and just plain humanly wrong with this that it makes me feel a little heart sick and a lot afraid for humanity.
Is this what we have become? Frankly it leaves me stunned that a presidential candidate can win a state primary by sending out messages like “hey let’s get this guy who feeds hungry people out of office.” I guess it shouldn’t when I think about how people actually clapped and cheered at the death of man who had no health insurance. That people want to vote for someone who thinks it’s ridiculous for the government to give food to hungry citizens shouldn’t surprise me. But I guess it still does.
To me there is something so deeply disturbing in the reality that a politician is able to actually find a constituency that is welcoming to this mean spirited, inhumane and immoral political philosophy. I mean what do people say to themselves that this kind of bullshit makes sense to them. Are they thinking hell ya, too many people are getting food stamps for no reason? They have money to buy food but they would rather embarrass themselves using food stamps. Or do they think, hell, it’s just those blacks, Latinos and immigrants who get food stamps anyway. They don’t deserve to eat. You know being black or Mexican or whatever. I mean even if this were true, which it is not, there are more poor white people getting food stamps, but if it were true, does that really make sense to them? Are these the same Christians who spew all that bullshit about family values? Is allowing people to go hungry now a family value?
If someone says more people are on food stamps now than ever before wouldn’t that beg the question why? What is going on that so many people are hungry in the richest nation in the world? Wouldn’t that be the logical question? To me it is abhorrent to think it is okay for people to go hungry. To hear from a politician’s own lips that there are more people hungry in the United States than ever before, then to hear this same guy say he would cut off people from food stamps if he was president and then to vote for him as your candidate is just beyond unacceptable, it is loathsome, abhorrent. What is wrong with people?
Corporate America is spending more money trying to elect their president than ever before. This president, whoever he is, is going to cost them more money than any other president they have purchased in the past. Since it really doesn’t matter who wins, they control them all, why can’t they just spend some of that money on creating jobs for people? That way there will be less of them on food stamps. Since that’s such an annoyance and all.
Okay, since this is the breaking news thread, here is the link to the breaking news article about the growing problem of hunger in the U.S.
http://www.alternet.org/story/153859...r_in_america_/