hunter is one of my favorite posters on daily kos. he knows how to preach it:
Even though our own Catholic church offered the same relief, my mother went to the Lutheran church a few blocks from our house, so that those we went to church with wouldn't know or ever hear that our family needed to beg for a week's groceries. And no matter what came, we never but never took any government help. There was pride, and then there was pride.
So given all that -- just a single week of falling off an edge that lurks just beyond the refrigerator door of millions of families in this nation -- I'll never understand the Republican fascination with screwing the poor at every opportunity. Countless numbers of American middle class families are one month, one week, or one very bad day away from being poor, indebted, or homeless, or at the very least not having enough food for the kids during one particular week. While my Catholic family was indeed, sigh, unalterably Republican, watching the Reagan years it didn't take much to demonstrate just how much Republicans loathed the middle class -- the average folks who had paychecks, not trusts, and whose most sizable long-term investments consisted of the savings account at their bank, not stock market portfolios.
And I'm not talking "ignored", or "were indifferent to", but absolute hatred. The idea that some poor person, somewhere, might be sucking a dime too many out of the system is largely used as the reason to carve, gut and bury whatever safety-net welfare programs the party sets its eyes on. Rather screw a thousand people, than to have the children of some undeserving "welfare queen" get milk today.
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