A question for the deathers: Since when has the LEFT been against folks "non-productive in society"?

[jmondine]

Weren't we supposed to be all about "Welfare Moms" living in luxury on the government dime? Wanting to give the "lazy" homeless folks a leg up? Trying to allow "deadbeats" who can't pay their mortgages to keep their ill-gotten homes?

Remember this quote? "If you don't want to get off of your blessed assurance and go to work, STARVE! I don't care! STARVE! I don't feel sorry for you! GO TO WORK!"

That was your own pastor, John Hagee; a man so far to the right that John McCain rejected his endorsement.

Want to see someone who judges people solely on their "productiveness"? Look in the mirror.

[fishwax]

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[tavalon]

2. Hammer, meet nail. Hit hard and well

[jmondine]

3. It is such a blatant case of projection, is it not?

[tavalon]

4. That really seems to be all they have left

[tavalon]

5. I knew John Hagee's name sounded familiar!

I used to drive by his Cornerstone megachurch in San Antonio all the time. Gosh, I don't miss San Antonio one bit.

[Cirque du So-What]

6. No major metro area is free from fundie infestation

I drive by Rod Parsley's World Harvest Church in suburban Columbus, OH, on a regular basis.

K & R for the morning crew. The observation in the OP is just too ironic to allow its disappearance into oblivion.

[wildflower]

7. I really don't understand what you're saying in this post

Hagee is our own pastor?

[Cirque du So-What]

10. The OP is addressed to wingnuts

It uses their own talking points against them.

They say that we reward nonproductivity, yet they want to accuse us of trying to kill off nonproductive people; they can't have it both ways.

John Hagee is certainly not the pastor of anyone on the left, as far as I know; he is held up as an example of the sociopaths who inhabit the right wing. His misanthropic views are more representative of the right than the left, and that's the point the OP is trying to make.

[wildflower]

11. Oh! I get it now. Sorry about that...

[jmondine]

13. Hey, no problem

If I had a nickel for every time something escapes me on DU, I'd be campaigning for health care to raise my own taxes!

[Echo In Light]

8. The Right adopted the "Family Values, Inc" motif precisely b/c they DON'T embody it

Projection, euphemism, Orwellian discourse. The Left represents The People, and is therefore more so aligned w/humanity's needs.

[Iris]

9. No kidding. I'll never forget the "non-productive eater" post on free republic

it was used to describe women over a certain age who had not born a child.

[juno jones]

12. K&R! n/t