Blackwell: 'Nothing More Christian' Than Food Stamp Cuts

They are not even trying to look at least vaguely humanoid any more are they?

It is not like Jesus gave away free healthcare or fed the poor or anything.

Oh, and if we are going to quote Christian scriptures….

And all who believed were together and had all things in common; and they sold their possessions and goods and distributed them to all, as any had need. — Acts 2:44-45

There was not a needy person among them, for as many as were possessors of lands or houses sold them, and brought the proceeds of what was sold and laid it at the apostles’ feet; and distribution was made to each as any had need. — Acts 4:34-35

It is so much fun to show Talibangelicals that Marx got the doctrine “From each according to his means; to each according to his needs” from the Apostles’ own example.

As an exercise, I invite the curious to read Acts 5:1-10, about the penalty for being greedy.

Blackwell also suggested that there was “nothing more Christian” than “not locking people into a permanent dependency on government handouts, but making sure they are participants in their own upliftment and empowerment so that they in fact through the dignity of work and can break from the plantation of big government.”

1) So he honestly believes that without foodstamps people will start working again?

2) Since he believes religious charities will pick up the slack from the cuts he wants people to join the plantation of big church (which he thinks is an improvement for some reason)

“Nothing more Christian than food stamp cuts,” said another servant of Mammon.

I grew up on welfare, with a mother who was too physically and emotionally disabled to work.

I endured a lot of physical and emotional abuse at her hands.

I happened to be a good student and I listened to my teachers and applied for and received scholarships and grants which allowed me to go to a good college to escape from a bad situation.

Thanks to those monthly food stamps, I didn’t have to also endure hunger as a child and young teen.

Because of my experience, I would never, ever deny any child a chance at daily food and an education.

There is a fundamental error in thinking here. Globalization, technology (automating more and more jobs), centralization (instead of thousands of local book shops, Amazon), etc. etc. How many “jobs” will there really be? Many of the jobs which can be exported or automated pay poverty wages. Most people on food stamps are working. Exactly how does this smug hypocritical bastard expect people to survive in the New Economy?

Edit: …rear its ugly head…

“….there were temporariness to those programs, where they were structured so that they didn’t breed dependency.”

He must be talking about the military????

No?

The problem is that plenty of people who are poor work; it’s just they don’t get paid enough to live without government benefits.

I get sick of any swipe at ‘dependency’ – unless you’re living off the land somewhere in the wilderness, you are dependent on other people. The wealthy are dependent on their being proles to screw, but somehow that sort of parasitic dependency is considered good… but, poor people’s inability to make rich people pay them more or make jobs appear out of thin air is somehow ignored in the call to ‘responsibility.’

Also, churches are in no position to handle this, and church ‘help often comes with strings attached. What right wingers hate about government aid is that it ISN’T so much a plantation – I was on disability, I got my aid, went to a Dr, and that was that. BUT wonderful non-government ‘private’ charity gets to pick and choose who really gets aid and what hoops you need to jump through, including requiring you actually participate in WORSHIP to get a tiny bit of help.

Seems y’all don’t understand modern christianinanity at all. If Jesus wanted these people to eat, then rocks would turn into bread. Rocks do not turn into bread; ergo Jezeus does not want them fed. It is logic people.

And as you are sure to be aware – every cut in government services or taxes results in not only job creation but an angel gets his wings.

They are not even trying to look at least vaguely humanoid any more are they?

Some of them get insulted when you call them vaguely humanoid toads. A simple “toad” will do.

The vast majority of people on food stamsp are children (50%), the disabled, and the old. Who are also lazy, I guess.

Blackwell: ‘Nothing More Christian’ Than Food Stamp Cuts

This is true for the modern xians known as the fundies.

A mean group of liars, haters, and hypocrites. You couldn’t expect anything better.

PS If you look who gets food stamps, a lot of them are going to be fundies. They tend to be lower socioeconomic and live in out of the way places. Not all of them but many.

I guess it would be entirely too demanding of the wingnuts to ask for a single study that supports their contention that giving people welfare saps their drive to be self-sufficient. They chant this mantra as if it were as established as the shape of the earth, when in fact it is typical speculedge – speculation pretending to be knowledge – from the “party of facts”.

I’m reminded of a fellow student I dealt with in my Campaigns and Elections class. They were an early twenty-something conservative Catholic from an upper to upper-middle class household. They were always good for matter-of-factly stating ridiculous things as if they were reasonable. The one instance that stands out more than any other is when they said something along the lines of “government aid is bad because it makes Christians lazy and less likely to donate to charity.” I responded with “that sounds more like a problem with Christians than a problem with government aid.” They were not happy with that counterpoint…

I suspect Blackwell is more looking where the wingnut’s Bible highlights 2 Thessalonians 3:10 in giant type:

For even when we were with you, we gave you this rule: “The one who is unwilling to work shall not eat.”