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America's ever-widening gulf between the haves and have-nots

As an outsider one is left with an impression that there is something akin to a class-war underway in America.    The GOP is certainly relentlessly taking a stick to anything which seems to help the poor, sick and disadvantaged.   

In this piece from CommonDreams, Abby Zimmet shines the spotlight (well and truly!) on the hypocrisy of one GOP member of Congress.


"The GOP House's slashing $40 billion in food stamps for 48 million Americans suffering from "food insecurity" - the current tragi-comic euphemism for being hungry - is heinous enough, but it becomes just the tip of the brutal iceberg when seen in a broader context best exemplified by North Dakota's Rep. Kevin Cramer - who answered a constituent challenging him with the Bibilical quote, "If anyone is not willing to work, let him not eat," and whose district has received $10.4 billion in agricultural subsidies, the most of anyone in the country. Such gross hypocrisy, coupled with what the New York Times calls "supreme indifference, is common. Here and here are the many other right-wing creeps who don't want to give any help to poor, old, young, sick, disabled or hungry people but are themselves happy to be on the generous dole; here's a breakdown on how the rest of us pay $6,000 a year to subsidize big business; here's an idiot congressman whining about having to make do with his paltry $175,000 salary. Finally, a deft acknowledgement that Republicans are now overtly waging a class war, just not the one most of us wanted."

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