I hate bullies, absolutely despise them in every way, shape, form & guise, and today's scumsucking bully of the moment is a nasty, goddamned parasite, Rep Mike Pence

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Say Hello to the nice people Mikey

As Hurricane Katrina put the issue of poverty onto the national agenda, many liberal advocates wondered whether the floods offered a glimmer of opportunity. The issues they most cared about - health care, housing, jobs, race - were suddenly staples of the news, with President Bush pledged to "bold action."

But what looked like a chance to talk up new programs is fast becoming a scramble to save the old ones.

Conservatives have already used the storm for causes of their own, like suspending requirements that federal contractors have affirmative action plans and pay locally prevailing wages. And with federal costs for rebuilding the Gulf Coast estimated at up to $200 billion, Congressional Republican leaders are pushing for spending cuts, with programs like Medicaid and food stamps especially vulnerable.


No, really mike, stop playing coy & hard to get

Indeed, even as he was calling for deep spending cuts last week, Representative Mike Pence, Republican of Indiana, who leads the conservative caucus, called tax reductions for the prosperous a key to fighting poverty.

"Raising taxes in the wake of a national catastrophe would imperil the very economic growth we need to bring the Gulf Coast back," Mr. Pence said. "I'm mindful of what a pipe fitter once said to President Reagan: 'I've never been hired by a poor man.' A growing economy is in the interest of every working American, regardless of their income.

"To allow tax cuts to lapse is a tax increase," Mr. Pence said, "and the economy would suffer."



Just how in the Hell are the poor supposed to lift themselves out of poverty? What these GOP scum are doing is nothing short of obscene, and about as anti-Christian as you can get

I'm guessing these losers and louts calling for this strategy were the bullies in school, the kind who tortured animals just for the thrill of inflicting pain on something else

This scumbag does not give a damn about the poor, unless they're willing to keep themselves in that condition, that hatred of the poor can be the only explanation for cutting the prevailing wage for Gulf Coast reconstruction-Pence would have been right at home on the Plantation, whipping the slaves who thought their lives should have as much of a chance as his own, and talking about how right, fine and dandy it was that the lower classes know their proper place

For Overseer Pence, it's obvious the economy works ONLY when the already well off are getting MORE government handouts, while the poor suffer.

Of course, for Rep Pence, and others of his sick-minded ilk in the Congress, their needs are taken care of by the taxpayers-His medical needs and those of his family, are paid for 100% by the taxpayers

Perhaps his obvious, seething hatred of the poor would have some legitimacy if he actually had to work for a living instead of freeloading at the taxpayers expense

ANY POLITICIAN who feels likes Pence should have to work on those rebuilding projects for $5.00 an hour, they should have to watch their loved ones starve and go without medical care because it's unaffordable

The drag on this economy is NOT the poor, it's the repulsive vile slugs like Overseer Pence who think they have a God Given right to make miserable the lives of those who enrich their employers

Want an interesting statistic that Pence can't just grunt or wish away?

"Economic growth is crucial to reducing poverty, but the effect of tax rates is less clear. In 1993, President Bill Clinton raised taxes on upper-income families, the economy boomed and poverty fell for the next seven years. In 2001, President Bush cut taxes deeply, but even with economic growth, the poverty rate has risen every year since......In 2004, about 12.7 percent of the country, or 37 million people, lived below the poverty line, which was about $19,200 for a family of four. The figure was 7.8 percent among whites, 24.7 percent among blacks and 21.9 percent among Hispanics."


The obscenity of cutting already gutted social services to the poor while clamoring to make permanent tax cuts to the already wealthy just cannot be overstated

But these piggish fools seem to forget a lesson we saw back in 1992

The Los Angeles Riots after the "Not Guilty" verdict of the cops who beat Rodney King

The poor can only be pushed so far, can have only so much hope ripped from their hearts, can watch their families go without for only so long before the poor will erupt

These idiots like Overseer Pence seem to think that the poor will be thankful for laws that gut their wages and ruin their ability to put food on the table for their families.

These fools seem to think the Poor will be glad that they can't earn enough $$$$$ to take care of their families medical needs

And these idiots think the Poor will be happy to just die quietly so as not to upset the delicate sensibilities of those like Overseer Pence

If Overseer Pence actually believes in God, then he'd better start making amends for his disgusting "the poor are expendable" attitude, as when he dies and stands in judgement God will slap his face and let him spend an eternity in the miserable Hell Pence is so quick to put upon the poor

The pigs at the trough deserve JUST as much mercy as they're willing to show the poor