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Sorry, urban kids: Republicans are in charge here
Boehner weeps, but not for "urban children."
The Republican Party continues to toil under numerous image problems of their own creation. The one that tends to make the most news these days is their overt hostility to women: Every passing day seems to evince yet another creepy outrage even more horrific than the last. But equally in the running, of course, is the self-created perception that Republicans could care less about minorities and have too vested an interest in protecting the wealthy from any sort of regulation or externally imposed scruple of conscience.
Republicans may be trying to figure out how to countermand these notions, but one thing seems clear: They've decided to start their systematic rebrand until after drafting the latest version of their House budget for agriculture and food safety programs, because ... boy, is this one a doozy.
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At this point, it's almost as if Republicans have given up making excuses for their own behavior. They've sought to restrict a summer food aid program for children to rural areas only, at the exclusion of urban areas (read: "letting poor white kids continue to get summer food help while putting the screws to black and brown children"
and don't even have a ready-made policy excuse as to why. That's just the intent of the program, with no other explanation needed. It appears that House Republicans have completely bought into Rep. Paul Ryan's racist dog whistle about how men in inner cities "aren't even thinking of working" and have decided to withhold food aid to children to teach those inner-city men about the value of work. Because after all, there's no better way to teach historically disadvantaged people the value of work than to starve their kids.
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Doing the bidding of Wall Street, discrimination against racial minorities and giveaways to big agribusiness at the expense of women and children. In other words, just another day at the office at Republican Party headquarters.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/05/25/1301389/-Sorry-urban-kids-Republicans-are-in-charge-here?showAll=yes
Republicans may be trying to figure out how to countermand these notions, but one thing seems clear: They've decided to start their systematic rebrand until after drafting the latest version of their House budget for agriculture and food safety programs, because ... boy, is this one a doozy.
snip
At this point, it's almost as if Republicans have given up making excuses for their own behavior. They've sought to restrict a summer food aid program for children to rural areas only, at the exclusion of urban areas (read: "letting poor white kids continue to get summer food help while putting the screws to black and brown children"
and don't even have a ready-made policy excuse as to why. That's just the intent of the program, with no other explanation needed. It appears that House Republicans have completely bought into Rep. Paul Ryan's racist dog whistle about how men in inner cities "aren't even thinking of working" and have decided to withhold food aid to children to teach those inner-city men about the value of work. Because after all, there's no better way to teach historically disadvantaged people the value of work than to starve their kids.
snip
Doing the bidding of Wall Street, discrimination against racial minorities and giveaways to big agribusiness at the expense of women and children. In other words, just another day at the office at Republican Party headquarters.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/05/25/1301389/-Sorry-urban-kids-Republicans-are-in-charge-here?showAll=yes
Sign the petition denouncing House Republicans for making urban children go hungry.
https://www.dailykos.com/campaigns/821
