Fox thinks poverty in America is too sexy
Fox thinks poverty in America is too sexy
4/1/2013
http://americablog.com/2013/04/fox-news-obama-poverty-comfortable-video.html
I know I try to run my business into the ground every day, just on the oft-chance that maybe, if I’m lucky, I too can join the ranks of the poor. Yes, that’s the latest from Fox News: President Obama is making it too “comfortable” to be poor in America.
Here’s what Fox News contributor Charle Payne told Saturday’s broadcast of “Cavuto on Business”:
“There’s this idea that between the food stamps and the welfare and the earned income tax credit and the child tax credit and the local programs, you know, it gets a little comfortable to be in poverty. Listen, I’ve lived it first hand. I’ve seen when people don’t go to work because they get everything paid for them. The incentive is not there.”
In the world of Fox, poverty is fake, it simply doesn’t exist. By Fox logic, America is a rich country, so if you’re poor, it simply has to be your fault. And the biggest problem, of course, isn’t the record number of poor. Oh no. It’s that Democrats have made poverty too sexy a prospect, so now everyone’s doing it!
It hardly matters to Fox if the reason a lot of Americans are now “takers” is because they were bankrupted by the aftermath of the imaginary prosperity of the Bush years.
It’s too bad that Fox doesn’t care nearly as much about the “takers” at Big Oil and on Wall Street. But in Fox’s mind, those people are hard-working capitalists who deserve all the corporate welfare they can get. Never mind the $83 billion per year given to them by the federal government (or is it $780 billion?) What nearly a trillion dollars a year among Fox and friends.
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Nice to see you also. I haven't been around as much as I would like, too many health problems. But I'm hanging in.
People choose poverty, illness or other misfortune, because it brings them lots of privileges! 
Here is a song that I wrote a couple of years ago about our viciously right-wing Secretary for Work and Pensions, Iain Duncan-Smith (who once co-authored an article on 'Compassionate conservativism' with Rick Santorum). Sadly, it describes him just as much today, and his policies are getting worse and worse.
IAIN DUNCAN-SMITH'S SONG OF COMPASSIONATE CONSERVATIVISM
Oh, poverty’s a dreadful thing,
A sorrow and a shame.
It causes so much misery.
Someone must be to blame!
And who’s to blame is very clear.
Of one thing we are sure:
There never could be poverty,
If ‘twas not for the poor!
Some people choose to earn a lot,
And live in mansions fine.
They always eat the best of food
And drink the best of wine.
We’re glad they made this lifestyle choice.
It should be made by more.
Too many cause their own downfall,
By choosing to be poor!
Just think of Labour’s cruelty,
A model to avoid!
They gave too many benefits
To sick or unemployed.
That only reinforced their sin,
And made them do it more.
You just encourage poverty
When you reward the poor!
Oh, poverty’s a dreadful thing,
A scourge throughout the land.
It’s just like an addictive drug.
As such, it should be banned.
It’s really for poor people’s good,
That we’ve big cuts in store.
A big deterrent’s what they need
To make them not be poor!
