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To: geode00 who wrote (173752)	10/31/2005 3:22:21 PM
From: JakeStraw	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

>>Republicans are against the poor, not in the sense that they wish to see poverty abolished but in the sense that they feel the poor are derelicts, idiots, wastrels and generally subhuman. What a load of horse crap! So then in that same vein we can also say that Democrats love keeping the unfortunate in a perpetual state of servitude to the government. Democrats are closet socialists...

To: geode00 who wrote (173752)	11/1/2005 3:55:44 PM
From: Dennis O'Bell	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

This is why the Bush administration and the Republicans aren't Christians. Most of the social purpose of Christianity is the help for those less fortunate which absolutely positively includes the poor. What a friend of mine calls "the compassionate monotheism of Christianity" was indeed one of the greatest advances ever in human thought (though Buddhism may have had the idea first ?), but has little to do with the Religious Right. Republicans are against the poor, not in the sense that they wish to see poverty abolished but in the sense that they feel the poor are derelicts, idiots, wastrels and generally subhuman. Republicans are subhuman but, then, they know that in their heart of hearts which is why they're so nasty and violent. In a way this is somewhat silly. The "Republicans" in power in this country are really motivated by personal greed and not a lot else (if one factors out hypocritical pandering to the "base" on certain social issues.) If it cost absolutely zip, many of them would go along with improving life for the poor or the middle class, but it's a zero sum game, no ? Talk about the poor deserving their lot has more to do with lame rationalization than with a direct desire to make it hard for the poor as a direct goal. At any rate, the present situation has its roots in Raygun's administration, since that's where corporate right wing greed really began to take off. Under the disguise of such BS jive phrases as "trickle down economics" (with "all deliberate speed", bien entendu....) And it's been downhill from there.