House GOP Didn't Get Pope’s Memo On Poor Before Slashing Food Stamps

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http://www.alternet.org/tea-party-and-right/house-gop-didnt-get-popes-memo-poor-slashing-food-stamps

There’s nothing new about the House GOP’s war on America’s poor. They want people to go hungry. They want to deny people healthcare. Those were the bottom lines in votes on Thursday and Friday.

The first vote cut $40 billion from food stamps over the next decade, which today assist one in seven households. The second vote cut funding for implementing the Affordable Care Act, including outreach to the poor.

Now the GOP’s critics don’t just include progressives and Democrats, they include Pope Francis, who called on people to help the poor after his election in March, and in a just-published interview, decried those with “dogmatic” and “obsessed” views inside the church, especially over human sexuality.

The papel interview, which surfaced within hours of the Republican-led House voting to cut billions from food stamps and then from healthcare, underscored just how extreme the GOP’s obsessions have become. There are 61 Republicans who are Catholic in the House; only 15 Republicans opposed the food stamp cuts; only one opposed cutting Obamacare.

[TexasProgresive]

1. They only hear what the want to hear

They did not head JP II and Benedict VI's call to end capital punishment and to not go to war in Iraq.

[kelliekat44]

2. I'm back! Yes, they got the memo beforehand. They don't like the Pope either. nt