Why give desperate people $320 per week when we could give BP a taxpayer financed bailout for destroying countless ecosystems and an entire way of life, as Mr Boenher has suggested! My these Republican fellows have such fine ideas!
And also: The Republicans are, if you examine what they do over time, fine with government involvement when it promotes the interests of large corporations or other powerful economic interests, and, relatedly, with the use of force both abroad and at home in service of these interests. They deride other forms of the exercise of government authority, for example for social benefits or to preserve the rights of individuals against the exercise of the police power of the state (with the notable, and in urban areas completely bizarre, exception that they fight wholeheartedly for the free distribution of guns).
Since our particular form of government is democratic, what they oppose, in essence, is any meaningful exercise of democratic power for the benefit of the people whose government it is supposed to be.
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