Family Research Council: ‘Nothing More Christian’ Than Food Stamp Cuts

[Purveyor]

There’s “nothing more Christian” than the massive food stamp cuts passed last week by House Republicans, said a conservative activist.

Ken Blackwell, a senior fellow for the Family Research Council, told the Christian Post on Saturday that welfare programs such as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program bred dependency.

The former Ohio secretary of state and failed 2006 gubernatorial candidate said he favored empowering the poor and working poor to become self-sufficient, although the story does not quote any specific plans suggested by Blackwell for doing this.

“Making sure they are participants in their own upliftment and empowerment so that they, in fact, through the dignity of work … can break from the plantation of big government,” Blackwell said.

Christian advocacy groups are divided over whether the 10-year, $40 billion cut to the food stamp program passed last week in the House would help America’s poor.

MORE...

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/09/24/family-research-council-nothing-more-christian-than-food-stamp-cuts/

[Posteritatis]

1. "break from the plantation?" Wow, they actually went there. (nt)

[Fantastic Anarchist]

3. Blackwell is black, too.

Shame on him for exploiting that position his people had to go through to make that his very moronic point.

[me b zola]

4. See what happens when we don't indite criminals?

...They go on to write hideous things and then be taken seriously because they once held a serious elected position.

[Fantastic Anarchist]

5. Yes, but we must look "forward."

Bleh.

[Fantastic Anarchist]

2. Fucking asshole.

How is someone supposed to go to work if they can't fucking eat.

To these people, logic has traversed the event horizon of a black hole.

[surrealAmerican]

6. How could anyone believe ...

... that cutting food stamps "would help America's poor"? They can't be that stupid; they must be lying.