Posted on 06/20/2013 4:48:56 PM PDT by Kaslin
On Wednesday's PoliticsNation show, MSNBC host Al Sharpton charged that Republicans are waging a "full-scale war against the poor" because of GOP efforts to reform the food stamp program, and went on to assert that "This party will stop at nothing to tear down the poor. Just as they have time and time again."
With the words "The Hunger Shames" in the background, the MSNBC host began the show:
Tonight's lead, the "hunger shames." The GOP has been called scary, narrow-minded, out of touch. And yet again today they lived up to their reputation. Fresh off of voting to roll back women's rights, today Republicans went after benefits for the poor. The House GOP wants to cut $20 billion from the food stamp program. Money that goes to hungry kids, disabled adults, struggling seniors. Why all the massive cuts? Well, just ask Congressman Sessions.
Then came three clips Texas Republicans Rep. Pete Sessions talking about wanting to remove convicted felons from the food stamp rolls and reserving the program for more deserving people, although the MSNBC host did not seem to get the point. Sharpton responded:
Pedophiles, murders, and rapists? The cuts the GOP want would kick 200,000 kids off the school lunch program. Kids -- not pedophiles, not murderers, not rapists -- kids. They're targeting a program where the vast majority of households includes children, seniors, or disabled people. That's who the GOP is targeting.
The MSNBC host added:
This isn't about fraud. It's a full-scale war against the poor. Just look at the amendments they're offering. They're telling needy mothers they need to get drug tested. They're pushing new work requirements to qualify for food stamps. And while the GOP can`t even talk about gun registry, they want one for people on food aid. This party will stop at nothing to tear down the poor. Just as they have time and time again.
Below is a transcript of relevant portions of the Wednesday, June 19, PoliticsNation on MSNBC:
AL SHARPTON: Tonight's lead, the "hunger shames." The GOP has been called scary, narrow-minded, out of touch. And yet again today they lived up to their reputation. Fresh off of voting to roll back women's rights, today Republicans went after benefits for the poor. The House GOP wants to cut $20 billion from the food stamp program. Money that goes to hungry kids, disabled adults, struggling seniors. Why all the massive cuts? Well, just ask Congressman Sessions.REP. PETE SESSIONS (R-TX) CLIP #1: What we're trying to accomplish is to end eligibility of food stamps that compete against those families, those needy families that we talked about for rapists, pedophiles, and murders. Whether rapists-
SESSION CLIP #2: -pedophiles or murders will be eligible-
SESSIONS CLIP #3: -but it's pedophiles, murders, rapists. Those who should have enough money.
SHARPTON: Pedophiles, murders, and rapists? The cuts the GOP want would kick 200,000 kids off the school lunch program. Kids -- not pedophiles, not murderers, not rapists -- kids. They're targeting a program where the vast majority of households includes children, seniors, or disabled people. That's who the GOP is targeting.
This isn't about fraud. It's a full-scale war against the poor. Just look at the amendments they're offering. They're telling needy mothers they need to get drug tested. They're pushing new work requirements to qualify for food stamps. And while the GOP can`t even talk about gun registry, they want one for people on food aid. This party will stop at nothing to tear down the poor. Just as they have time and time again.
REP. MICHELE BACHMANN (R-MN): Self-reliance means if anyone will not work, neither should he eat.
NEWT GINGRICH, FORMER HOUSE SPEAKER, CLIP #1: Really poor children in really poor neighborhoods have no habits of working. And have nobody around them who works.
GINGRICH CLIP #2: They have no habit of I do this and you give me cash unless it's illegal.
REP. PAUL RYAN (R-WI): Teach a man how to fish, he can feed himself for a life. Don't simply feed fish.
SHARPTON: Wouldn't it be nice if for once the GOP talked that way about banks and oil companies instead of those struggling to get by?
Joining me now is Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky, Democrat from Illinois. She just is steps away from where the House is voting. She participated in the SNAP food stamp challenge with other Democrats where they lived on just $31.50 a week. Also with me, Karen Finney, host of MSNBC's Disrupt. ... Congresswoman, does the GOP always target the poor when cuts need to be made?
Resist we much.
Notice how this PIMP’S getting RICH and his people are still scraping the bottom of the barrel.
Criky! You do not tear down the poor!
It makes the meat tough.
/Unfeeling conservative monster
Dang, I almost sounded like a liberal abortionist or a MSNBC show host there for a moment.
Of course. Booker T. Washington warned of charlatans like Rev. Al back in the late 19th century.
GE. Selling Wind turbines to the greenies and fast start combustion turbines for times when the wind doesn’t blow.
Both sides of the fence. The Chicago Way!
"There is a class of colored people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the negro race before the public. Some of these people do not want the negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs. There is a certain class of race-problem solvers who don't want the patient to get well." - Booker T. Washington
"Cursed are the warmongers for they will be called children of Satan."
Better to mire the poor down in misguided pseudo kindness?
The entire progressive income tax is upside down. They need to tax the crap out of the low income, non-working parasites, and no tax at all on high-income working stiffs.
The more you earn, the less you pay.
There should be no taxes on business.
He’s a Racists pure and simple!!!!
“Are you serious? Wow.”
Yes, I want to see/hear him. I want to know what the enemy is thinking/planning. I only get bits from other people about him and I’d like to see/hear it myself.
I don’t get to see/hear Chris Matthews, either, so all I get is second hand.
If you had an enemy and had a chance to see/hear his plans, wouldn’t you want to know what those are? The more information I get, the better off I am to know what is coming down the pike toward me.
Someone tell sharpy that his rich white democrate friends tolerate him.
Good grief. The problem with the food stamp crowd is gross obesity. They could live off stored fat for months.
What sort of ratings does this joker get?
The US has become Wonderland, with millions joining Alice down the rabbit hole.
vaudine
Funny how in reality, Sharpton is saying to all those candidates he was standing on the stage with in 2008 that they were scum of the earth and he wanted them dead. And he really wanted to be president. Amazing. A guy who wants 70% of the US population wiped out wants to be president
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