6 Reasons There's No Such Thing As Compassionate Conservatism

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http://www.alternet.org/economy/6-reasons-theres-no-such-thing-compassionate-conservatism



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1. Food Stamps

Conservatives are especially “compassionate” when it comes to helping the poor. Since many of them hold the moral belief that helping people makes them, as Paul Ryan said, “dependent” and “complacent,” the way these conservatives apply their compassion is to work to cut the poor, hungry, elderly, disabled, ill and others off from any means of assistance.

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2. Minimum Wage

Compassionate conservatives are fighting tooth and nail to stop efforts to bring the minimum wage up. In fact, many of them believe there shouldn’t be a minimum wage at all.

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3. Unemployment Benefits



Kentucky Senator Rand Paul said recently that extending unemployment benefits for the long term unemployed would be a “disservice” because, he says, unemployment benefits cause unemployment. "When you allow people to be on unemployment insurance for 99 weeks, you're causing them to become part of this perpetual unemployed group in our economy. And it really - while it seems good, it actually does a disservice to the people you're trying to help."

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4. Healthcare

Paul Ryan has called our government safety-net programs “a hammock that lulls able-bodied people to lives of dependency and complacency, that drains them of their will.” It is pretty clear at this point what the rest of the Republicans think of the idea of helping the poor and uninsured get healthcare. They are trying to nullify the existing law (passed by Congress, signed by the President, ruled legal by the courts and confirmed in the 2012 election) and Republican states are practically seceding from the United States to avoid expanding Medicaid to cover more people, even though the federal government is picking up the entire tab.

[liberal N proud]

1. Like everything tied to republicans - things are never what they are titled

[LiberalEsto]

2. Actually, I suspect the GOP does have a jobs plan

They're pushing our poorest and most vulnerable people toward the point of rioting.
And I believe they are doing it on purpose.

If people rebel, the newly-militarized police will swoop in and round them up. They'll be sentenced to serve time in corporate prisons, where they will work as super-cheap labor for the corporations.

That's my story, and I'm sticking to it.