“James will not abide safe and secure theological dogmas in the face of oppression. To such dogmas James is saying, quite literally, ‘to hell with them.'”
“2 Thessalonians 3:11 will undoubtedly continue to comprise the entire canon of the counterfactual Gospel of the Anti-Poor Jesus, a cynically political phenomenon as divorced from Scripture as it is from reality.”
“You put me in charge of Medicaid, the first thing I’d do is get [female recipients] Norplant, birth-control implants, or tubal ligations. Then, we’ll test recipients for drugs and alcohol, and if you want to [reproduce] or use drugs or alcohol, then get a job.”
“No, my friend, you won’t find paradise here / here, too, there’s a difference between rich and poor.”
“Waiting, waiting, waiting for even the most basic necessities is the plight of people who are poor.”
“One in seven Americans — 46 million people — rely on food pantries and meal service programs to feed themselves and their families.”
“The cliffs are not a problem because they’re a work disincentive — the problem is the hardship.”
“In the absence of other strong institutions, like powerful labor unions, employers have had all the leverage, and there’s been no pressure to pass savings on to workers.”
“There’s so little reward for working and so much downside that it has to occur to some portion of them that we have made it nearly impossible for them to get out of this trap.”
“This means that the top 10 percent of white families own 65.1 percent of all the wealth in the nation.”
“Our results indicate that both white and black restaurant customers discriminate against black servers by tipping them less than their white co-workers.”
“Corporations are the golems of American business.”
“More than half of consumer checking account income is from overdraft fees — often the costliest of all banking fees.”
“The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. reports that bank fees have declined nearly 21 percent in the past four years, from $41.1 billion in 2009 to $32.5 billion last year.”
“Basically, payday loans are the Lay’s potato chips of finance — you can’t have just one and they’re terrible for you.”
“In 44 states, jails and prisons hold more mentally ill patients than state hospitals.”
“Since 2011, House Republicans have cut NIH funding by billions. And you thought dumping ice water on your head was cold.”
“Take away the accents and I could easily have been listening to a group of Americans discussing their care. With one exception, no one in the UK is left wondering what the price will be or gets an egregious bill.”
“Dear UK, this is what childbirth looks like without an NHS.”
“I mean, for crying out loud, my wife and I are Christian aid and development workers!”
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