WARNING:
If you are my friend and a conservative republican just skip
this part. It will only anger you and cause you to either unfriend me or at the
least think of me as a vulgar little left wing commie:
God! Dear GOD! This fucker works for DHR as a food stamp
worker and pastors a church where he will proclaim the love of Christ. The
other one is a staunch republican and loves the reason for the season! Both of them are as mad as wet hens (as my
grandma used to say) because the state is giving poor families an extra $700
dollars in food this year.
They were not just irritated they were MAD! They were
trembling in the hall with rage that people who got food stamps would sell
them. Now, I’m not saying some people don’t sell their stamps. I’m not stupid
and I may have rode in on the turnip truck. But, I came in the cab. I didn’t
fall off the back. But, really if you have 10 hungry children and three adults sell their stamps for money but the 10
hungry kids get fed then yep I’m good with that. If you begrudge the poor but
you voted for a man who has paid women to get an abortion and evicted people
and not paid his taxes and not paid his debts then what the fuck is wrong with
you?
I pointed out to the good reverend that Gov’na Bentley and
the GOP machine for the past 8 years regularly used state money for trips to
Vegas for Bentley’s mistress and made sure her and her husband had cushy
taxpayer funded contracting jobs for hundreds of thousands of dollars a year.
But, that didn’t’ bother the good reverend because Bentley is anti abortion don’tcha
know? Doesn’t matter if poor people go hungry as long as we don’t allow even
one or two scum bags to sell their stamps. By the way I’ve been on food stamps in
my life and I needed them to feed my family. But, ya know what? I was desperate
and yes I did go back to work and I was blessed to get my state job again. But,
what if I hadn’t? Should my child have gone hungry?
Look I understand getting mad about welfare cheats. I
understand that we have to have borders in this nation and I understand we have
able bodied people on disability. But, most of them really are not able to find
and do 40 hours a week and feed themselves and their families. Do we begrudge
the next meal a child gets because of some scum who abused the system?
My main issue was that these right wing gawd lovin folks
were not mad at government abuse or waste. They are not trembling at congress
having lifetime benefits and a huge pension for the rest of their days. They
were trembling (and I’m not exagaratting) in rage because a poor hillbilly from
North Alabama or a person in the hood in Tuscaloosa was going to get a little
extra food this year.
Finally, using God’s name in vain is not saying G…amit. God’s
name in vain is getting behind a pulpit and preaching the love of Jesus while
begrudging the food a poor person puts in their mouth.
Jesus Wept!
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