Republicons are SO Christ-like.

[ErikJ]

GOP Cuts To Food Aid For Seniors And Food Banks Equals One Day Of Bush Tax Cuts For Millionaires

By Pat Garofalo on Jun 14, 2011 at 4:10 pm ThinkProgress

Today, the House is debating the Republican’s 2012 Agriculture Appropriations Bill, which, as we’ve been documenting, slashes funding for food assistance, preventing hundreds of thousands of people from accessing aid. In addition to lopping more than $800 million from the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC), the GOP’s bill would cut $38 million from the Commodity Supplemental Food Program (CSIP), as well as $63 million from the Emergency Food Assistance Program (TEFAB).
The CSFP provides food assistance to 600,000 low-income families every month, 96 percent of whom are seniors, while the TEFAP “provides our nation’s emergency food bank network with food commodities and storage and distribution support.”

We previously noted that the cuts to WIC are roughly equivalent to the cost of extending the Bush tax cuts for millionaires alone for just one week.

As it turns out, the cuts to CSIP and TEFAB, according to Half in Ten’s Melissa Boteach, are equivalent to the cost of extending the Bush tax cuts for millionaires alone for just one day:

[arbusto_baboso]

1. And the standard right-wing reply is "Christians don't want to be forced by govt to be charitable."

The problem with that logic is that all the private charities in the wrold won't - and can't - provide the needed services that government can.

It doesn't matter what you say to these hypochristians; they'll see only what they want to see and justify their greed in any way necessary to make themselves feel better.

[ErikJ]

2. Charity to Christians is tything

And the churches use most of that money for expansion and/or their own bank account.

Similarly, the GOP also claims that if we give tax cuts to the rich they will use their money to hire more people and government stimulus is wasteful and doesnt work.
Hoover kept begging the big businesses in 1930-32 to use all their surplus money to hire people. Just like today they arent. So it took FDR to kick it into gear with the New Deal which lowered unemployment from 30% to 14% in 3 years.

[gratuitous]

4. No it isn't, and no they don't

But don't let facts get in the way of your broad brush painting all Christians as one thing. I'm sure it's much easier to deal with in your own mind to do so.

[ErikJ]

7. OK how about 95%

The Unitarians and a couple others are truly charitable.

[Scuba]

3. The Walton's are VERYcharitable, if you're a museum....

...poor folk, not so much.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x1054801

[JNelson6563]

5. They make me wish there really was a hell.

Hateful bastards.

[Ezlivin]

6. So when can we crucify 'em?

I loves me some martyrs.

[Permanut]

8. Or perhaps we should say they are atheist-like

Since they worship Ayn Rand. People have used religious authority ever since language was invented, to justify their actions. This applies equally to a number of religions, and tends to subvert and pervert that authority. I belong to a Christian church that subscribes to NONE of this neo-con BS.

[ErikJ]

9. Ayn Rand vs. Jesus

Great new ad on Youtube -Ayn Rand and GOP vs. Jesus

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0TxCWbTqz9s&feature=player_embedded