The Crime? Helping the Poor While Being Wealthy

[proud2BlibKansan]

By A. Alexander
The Progressive Daily Beacon

Saturday 25 August 2007

It is interesting to observe Republicans and the corporate-owned media as they attack the rare wealthy person who dares attempt to help America's poor and impoverished. According to Republicans, wealthy people that try to help America's poor, even those like John Edwards who came from a working class background, are to be publicly humiliated ... to be treated as though they have committed a crime. What crime? The crime of helping the poor while being wealthy.

Though Republicans and the corporate-owned media might attack the concerned individual, their assault is really against America's poor. After all, when Republicans and the media attack the cost of a haircut for those trying to help the poor, the reason is about more than simply hoping to undermine the person's credibility; ultimately their goal is to undermine the cause.

For the last 40 years in the United States, any person that dared take on the cause of the poor and disenfranchised has been roundly attacked, belittled, marginalized, intimidated into complete surrender, or murdered (i.e. Bobby Kennedy, Martin Luther King Jr. etc.). The reason for this is simple: Republican philosophy dictates that any of the hard-earned taxpayer dollars returned to, or used to improve the lives of common citizens is a waste of money. However, giving the taxpayer's revenue to the wealthiest Americans and corporations is money well spent. In other words, welfare for the poorest among American society is bad; welfare for the wealthiest among American society and corporations is good.

And what is best of all? Spending most of working America's tax dollars on building bigger, better, and deadlier bombs!

more . . . http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/082707T.shtml

[Kagemusha]

1. Yeah, they think that if they don't do this, the country will wither and die.

For real, they believe that. :shrug:

[valerief]

2. Leona Helmsley died recently. You made me think of her, "Only

little people pay taxes" quotation.

[Stargazer99]

3. any poor person sees through their RW bullcrap about the

hair cuts...shallow crap only the middleclass might bite on...the RW hopes

[porphyrian]

4. They don't want it exposed that they don't feel the shame they should, or the hypocrisy. -n/t

[Lydia Leftcoast]

5. Well, it's a double standard

On the one hand, Republicans say that no social safety net would be necessary if everyone just provided private charity.

On the other hand, they blast any rich person who actually helps the poor--their line being that said rich person is a hypocrite for being rich and wanting to help or advocate for the poor.

[AX10]

7. They make the system so you can't win, no matter what.

[rwheeler31]

6. They are so afraid of the poor rising up and making demands.

One of them must have read some History.

[The Vinyl Ripper]

8. The French Revolution comes to mind pretty quickly..

[proud2BlibKansan]

9. Let them eat cake