Republican votes to cut food stamps, then hosts "Hunger and Homelessness Summit"

[Scuba]

That would be Wisconsin reality-show-lumberjack and guy-who-said-he-couldn't-make-it-on-only-$174,000-a-year Sean Duffy.


http://bloggingblue.com/2013/11/best-laugh-of-the-week-5/

If you’re drinking something right now you’d better swallow before you read this or you’ll have it shooting out your nostrils. Sean Duffy is hosting a ” Hunger and Homelessness Summit ” in Wausau on December 18th! Can you say ” brazen hypocrite?“ I knew you could!

Duffy voted to cut food stamp benefits by 40 billion dollars over the next ten years, has repeatedly voted to repeal the Affordable Care Act without offering an alternative which leaves working families vulnerable to medical bankruptcy and crushing debt, and when over 100 constituents gathered in front of his Wausau office in the summer of 2012 demanding that he support legislation that would increase the minimum wage one of his staffers called them “a bunch of professional protesters “. What a guy.

Here’s an idea, Sean. Instead of posing for a campaign photo op at a summit of professional organizations that are actually trying to do something about these problems, why don’t YOU do something too? Grow a spine and issue a public statement in support of the ” Fair Minimum Wage Act of 2013. ”

Fair wages puts a roof over the heads of, and food on the tables of, working families all across Wisconsin. That’s the Real World, Sean. Photo opportunities and cheap publicity stunts are mighty short on both shelter and nutritional value.

[hobbit709]

1. They would be completely oblivious to irony even if it hit them upside the head with a 2x4.

[Fumesucker]

2. Who is to say that they aren't planning how to increase hunger and homelessness?

[LisaLynne]

4. Ha!

Yes, that makes more sense.

[LisaLynne]

3. They and their sheeple do not understand irony nor do they feel ...

cognitive dissonance. It's the only way their heads haven't exploded from their own asshatery. To them, this makes perfect sense. They care about hungry homeless people, but it's better for those people to starve than to be part of the "dependency culture". This summit is to try to solve the problem without evil government handouts which are EVIL. See how that works for them?

[xmas74]

5. What do they know about hunger?

One of his wife's handy tips for staying calm during the holiday season was to have sushi flown in from the coast.

[hobbit709]

6. Maybe someone will include some fugu in that sushi order.

[xmas74]

7. I need to find that article.

It was the wife, Rachel's, suggestion. You know, who he met on because they were both on MTV reality tv shows? Both were on different seasons of The Real World.

[Laelth]

8. k&r for exposure. n/t

-Laelth

[Arkana]

9. Lemme guess--the central theme of the "summit"

has something to do with walking around and telling poor people that they're lazy and they should pull themselves up by their bootstraps?