Farmers in
Montana are calling for federal help in battling a grasshopper infestation that threatens to be the largest since 1985. Now, I got no beef with spending government money for the saving of crops and livestock, those are things that are good for the country. But let's look at this: These businessmen, these farmers, frequent Republican voters, from Red State Montana, are calling for tax money from non-farming Americans to bail them out of danger. Nobody made them farm in these hopper-ridden areas, and the market forces so venerated by conservatives and the GOP (like Montanans) will no doubt balance everything out in the end, just like these folks say, right?
So, here's what I propose: Spray, grant, whatever is needed to be done, but before these things are done, every farmer who gets a piece of that pie must sign a form saying that he accepts this socialist handout from the government of the United States, and that
taxpayers' money is being spent
on them for the
collective good of the whole nation.
It's about time people remember that nations are collectives, and no matter how independent they think they are, they
all benefit from the efforts of the whole.
3 comments:
Typical hypocritical behaviour.
I think it's just ignorance (though possibly willful ignorance). For instance, how many Republicans who curse "socialism" grew up on farms with electricity and telephone service courtesy of "socialist" policies? They often "forget" this (I'm waiting for my Republican mother to use the term, but so far she hasnt, though I cant be sure that she doesnt think it).
Nevertheless, I'd like to see this kind of thing signed, since I think it'd make a good civics lesson. It'll never happen, though, which is probably just as well, since Faux Noise and the GOP would just spin it into some sort of "communist co-option" of some sort.
Okay, ignorance for the majority of the Republican voters out there, who are generally just ordinary folks who believe what their leaders tell them.
The leaders, on the other hand, are Supreme Hypocrits. Actually, that's not true either, because hypocracy (seems to me) involves a certain amount of self-deception, even if it's only a tiny amount reached with a long, long stretch.
Many of the mouthpieces of the so-called conservative movement are simply outright liars. They knowingly spread falsehoods in order to increase their own power, with little thought to the effect on the rest of the nation.
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