serve banksters or serve the poor? congress reinterprets jesus

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http://www.nationofchange.org/serve-banksters-or-serve-poor-congress-reinterprets-jesus-1372342633


Thank God for Congress, right? When things get out of balance in America, we can always count on our legislative stalwarts to recalibrate the scales of justice.

Take greed, for example. The barons of Wall Street, whose raw greed and casino scams wrecked our real economy five years ago, are back to shoving great gobs of bonus pay into their pockets. Meanwhile, the middle class remains decimated, and millions of workaday Americans who were knocked all the way down into poverty are still stuck there. In this nation of fabulous wealth, our poverty numbers are shocking and scandalous: 50 million people are officially poor; another 51 million are "near poor." A third of our country!

You'll be pleased to know, then, that only last week, U.S. House members turned their legislative guns on the greed that's sapping the moral vitality of our society. Unfortunately, their aim was a bit off. Instead of popping the privileged, they hit the most unprivileged: families who need food stamps to make ends meet.

The food stamp program is out of control, they shrieked, noting that it's been expanding even as the unemployment rate has been coming down. Yoo-hoo, knuckleheads, the jobless rate has ticked down largely because job-seekers have become so discouraged by the absence of opportunities that they've quit looking. Plus, getting a job no longer gets you out of poverty — just ask the barista who's making your next latte about the joys of working for poverty pay. Food stamp rolls have reached record numbers, because — guess what? — there are record numbers of Americans in poverty!

[allan01]

1. re:serve banksters or serve the poor? congress reinterprets jesus

cut a ford class carrier . cut congresses wages , eliminate the constitunal protection of their wages . cut a virginia class attack sub 1 a year. reduce flag officers current level to cold war level . on edit . ny got rid of all its social p@ one time programs and had lots of problems due to the elimitation of them and cost more to reinstate them. the robber barons should be in jail in my opinion and that is my opinion.