Fat Cats, the Eye of the Needle, and Food Stamps — Wealth’s often Judgmental Lack of Empathy Defeats even Christ’s Admonition

20 June 2013

“We can afford to spend trillions on the Military Industrial Complex and all its unnecessary wars — but we cannot afford the $20 billion we need to cut from y’all poor folk’s food stamps”

A combination of Democrats and some Republicans — for different reasons — sent the House of Representatives’ version of the Farm Bill to the dumpster, in part because of the $20 billion plus it cut from the Food Stamp Program:

Democrats have blasted the $20.5 billion in food stamp cuts all week as cruel, while Republicans said more cuts are needed to eliminate fraud and ensure people aren't becoming dependent on the program.

“We’un fat cat politicians know better’n y’all dirt scrabblers”

This predictable kind of arrogant soullessness may be why Jesus was allegedly motivated to say:

[I]t is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for someone who is rich to enter the kingdom of God.

Matthew 19:23-26, New International Version

The moral? — It is often the most avowedly Christian of Republicans, who are the first in line to screw the less fortunate

Jesus probably thought something about that, too.

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Fat Cats, the Eye of the Needle, and Food Stamps — Wealth’s often Judgmental Lack of Empathy Defeats even Christ’s Admonition