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In reply to the discussion: On Food Stamps and Disability Benefits [View all]John2
(2,730 posts)I have read on here, are what Liberals are being bashed by the right for. They are being bashed for having a good heart. The Government can do more to reduce hunger and poverty than individuals. Why would some people that have thousands, millions or even billions of dollars in income, attack the poor? It is all and well they give to charity but that comes from the heart.
I grew up in the Age of Liberalism, when you had Hollywood depicting shows that focused on those values of giving. Many of those shows did not attack the poor. I don't know when the character Scrooge was created, but I remember the moral lesson from that show about helping the less fortunate if you have plenty.
I think these attitudes against the Poor, happened doing the Reagan Era, and Wall Street's longtime hatred of the Great Society. They have always wanted to destroy the Programs from the Roosevelt Era. I thought that period was America at its Greatest and what America was all about. It also bought many people to America's shores, because it was a land of opportunity for anybody. Now you have people that are anti immigration and against the poor. There is an irony, when you had Mitt Romney's own mother praising the social Programs of the United States for helping them compared to her own son bashing them in the past Election. Those words from his own mother, placed him in a awkward position. Those were liberal programs. It is their entire effort, to demonize the left.