Pat Toomey: Americans Who 'Really Need Help' Are A 'Small Segment'

[dajoki]

Michael McAuliff
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Pat Toomey: Americans Who 'Really Need Help' Are A 'Small Segment'
Posted: 04/19/2012 12:03 pm
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/04/19/pat-toomey-budget-welfare-senate-gop_n_1437613.html

WASHINGTON -- One of the Senate GOP's leading budget mavens unveiled Wednesday the party's plan for cutting aid to the poor by $440 billion, saying the people "who really need help" in America make up a "small segment of our society."

The proposal was part of a Senate GOP budget plan detailed by Sen. Pat Toomey (R-Pa.). Similar to the 2013 House budget released last month by Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.), it comes out just after the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops said Ryan's budget does not meet "moral criteria," largely because of its cuts to programs that aid the poor. The bishops argued for maintaining assistance aimed at needy families and people who are hungry.

Toomey, who is Catholic, said that he had not read the bishops' letters and that he doubts the opinions they represent are "monolithic."

The GOP senators' budget concludes that the current system of assistance "encourages dependency" and therefore should be reduced and changed to a state-run block grant program.

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[Skittles]

1. Mr. Toomey needs to get out of his gated community more often

[ForgoTheConsequence]

2. Not "monolithic"?

Don't read the Bible much do you Pat? What a horrible Christian.

Doubt he'll be denied communion though, that only happens to liberals.

[Icicle]

3. Toomey

Toomey is a "Club for Growth" guy.
Wasn't it Sinclair Lewis who said that when the Antichrist (or was it Fascism?) comes to America he will be "wrapped in a flag and carrying a cross?"

[justabob]

4. was fascism

but same difference, really.

[MrSlayer]

5. Such a shame we didn't get Sestak.

And ended up with this piece of shit. Such a scumbag and we're stuck with his dumb ass for five more years. Bunch of idiots in this state.