Anti Wage-Slavery Pro-Freedom Quotations Of The Week 1038-1041

 And SNAP [food stamps] benefits not only reduce food insecurity and poverty this year; they also reduce poverty in the next generation. Recent research that tracked children into adulthood found that families’ access to food stamps improved their infants’ health and birth weight. Children who benefited from the program later posted better health, higher educational attainment, less heart disease...".

The Mismeasure of Poverty

By SHELDON H. DANZIGER

New York Times

Published: September 17, 2013

WASHINGTON, DC (WP)
What Would Jesus Do? He’d cut food stamps obviously, which is why America’s only Christian party, the GOP, slashed food stamps by $40 billion dollars.

The bill is expected to deny 3.8 milion people food stamps, but as Majority Leader Eric Cantor explains, this will allow them all to get jobs. Somehow.
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House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan, a devout Catholic explained that “Sure, we cut food stamps today, but we’re saving $40 billion. Isn’t paying off 0.25% of the national debt worth letting 3.8 million people starve to death?”
GOP USHERS IN NEW ERA OF PROSPERITY BY CUTTING FOOD STAMPS
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Cato also trumpets what it calls “The Virtue of Production” without ever defining what production is. Economics defines the term, but libertarianism is looser with its terminology. That was easier to get away with in the Industrial Age, when “production” meant a car, or a shovel, or a widget.

Today nearly 50 percent of corporate profits come from the financial sector—that is, from the manipulation of money. It’s more difficult to define “production,” and even harder to find its “virtue,” when the creation of wealth no longer necessarily leads to the creation of jobs, or economic growth, or anything except the enrichment of a few.

RJ Eskow

AlterNet

11 Questions You Should Ask Libertarians to See if They're Hypocrites

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Granted the proper integration of the world around potentials by political unblockings, there could be enough to provide all men [sic] to enjoy all earth at a higher standard of living than all yesterday's kings, without self-interferences and with no one being advantaged at the expense of another.

R. Buckminster Fuller, 

Utopia Or Oblivion