As Republicans Make Millions Suffer, the Left’s Ideologues Obsess Over Edward Snowden from politicsusa -- snip According to the Census Bureau, roughly half the population in America is at or near poverty; including nearly a quarter of America’s children. Senior citizens are losing critical food and housing assistance, and tens of millions of the working-poor barely survive from paycheck to paycheck if they are fortunate enough to find two or three part-time minimum wage jobs. In Republican-controlled states, women’s reproductive rights are being eliminated to satisfy a fanatical cult driven by a bastardized form of Christianity, and minorities are losing their right to vote as fast as Republicans can move voter suppression bills through state legislatures. Republicans in the House of Representatives eliminated funding for the SNAP program (food stamps) for over 47-million Americans (mostly children and seniors), and refuse to reapportion sequestration cuts that decimated Meals on Wheels, Head Start, HUD housing assistance, and public education; all the while they are unfazed their handiwork is slated to kill between 1.6 and 3 million jobs. With all the devastation Americans are suffering at the hands of Republicans in Congress and state legislatures, one might think the left would coalesce and launch a do-or-die campaign to stop the Republican onslaught before they eviscerate a majority of the population, but instead there are ideologues who focusing on one man who violated his national security clearance, and others are entranced over a disgraced ex-congressman’s admission he sent inappropriate pictures over the Internet. It is unclear why a phalanx of so-called civil libertarians invests more time, energy, and attention to the plight of an NSA subcontractor who admitted stealing government property (data) while their fellow citizens are in serious distress. Likely it is due to the machinations of an expatriate journalist living in South America who does not have firsthand knowledge of the devastation Republicans are wreaking on Americans, and probably because he has no interest in helping stem the conservatives’ assault on the people. At some level one can appreciate the devotion and concern so many on the left have for one man’s self-imposed confinement to a Russian airport, but while they are wringing their hands and fretting over one man’s predicament, their neighbors, family members, and workmates are suffering the effects of Republican assaults. politicususa/2013/07/28/republicans-millions-suffer-ideologues-left-obsess-edward-snowden.html
Posted on: Sun, 28 Jul 2013 20:21:22 +0000
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