Doesn’t have to. For every one of us that is disgusted by the notion, I guarantee you there’s a few NC residents who think that’s a fine old idea, because he isn’t talking about them – he’s talking about “those people.”
Discussion: North Carolina GOPer Tillis: We Need To 'Divide And Conquer' People On Public Assistance
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“We may end up taking care of those babies. . .” = Black fetuses will be required to come to term.
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We’re looking at you, Cliven Bundy.
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“NC House Speaker Thom Tillis ®: We must ‘divide and conquer’ people on government assistance.”
Afraid I have to agree with him.
The feds spend $100 billion per year on corporate welfare, including bank bailouts, cash payments to agribusiness, research funds to high-tech companies, and foreign promotion of specific products.
That doesn’t even include another $80 billion per year that states, counties, and cities give to companies for “incentives”.
I’m sick and tired of these moochers living high off the hog on our hard-earned tax money.
Like the good Speaker says, we need to look down at these bank presidents, insurance CEOs, and corporate thieves, “who choose to get into a condition that makes them dependent on the government and say at some point, ‘You’re on your own’…”
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“We have to show respect for that woman with cerebral palsy” = We have to give that poor sick white woman disability.
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No, all you need is a pigment meter.
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why am I getting the sense that he is really thinking - if we could just heavily arm them all, AND turn them against each other - they would probably resolve our problems for us.
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Do we still have hanging trees? Yep, in North Carolina, and they bear strange fruit. . .
This is the suffocating paternalism that makes Southern Culture insufferable.
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And farm subsidies? Exxon subsidies? Those too?
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Dumbass doesn’t realize that a large chunk of his teabagging support already comes from people on assistance. Keep government hands off my Medicare, indeed.
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Can republicans say anything that doesn’t involve some kind of violent rhetoric? ‘Divide and conquer’ is how people talk about their sworn enemies, not their constituents. Scott Walker used the same verbiage when talking about busting unions.
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Build some circular walls and good seating up above in the shade, sell the rights pay-per-view. Allow a few of the good fighters some celebrity status now and again. It could be a money maker for duh peeples. Now where have I heard of that before?
The Hagen campaign is missing a lesson from Claire McCaskill. If you’re trying to pick your opponent in the Republican primary, you don’t attack the candidate you prefer to not face for being nutty levels of conservative. You attack the opponent you prefer, because “too conservative” will drive GOP primary voters to that candidate. That’s what McCaskill did with Todd Akin. She didn’t attack the likely winner. She attacked AKin for his conservatism and helped him over the top. If she’s going to make these attacks on Tillis, what until he’s the primary winner and show this to general election voters.
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What Tillis means is that we need to divide those who are white on public assistance from those AAs who are on public assistance by saying that it is just whites who are disabled that need public assistance and not because they are lazy like those AAs who won’t go out and work. Yes, the man is definitely using under the table code for racism. This is the mindset of the republican old rich white guy who probably is so stingy that he watches his employees every minute scared that they might get paid one minute more then they worked.
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“And we need to get those folks to look down at these people who choose to get into a condition that makes them dependent on the government and say at some point, ‘You’re on your own. We may end up taking care of those babies, but we’re not going to take care of you.’ And we’ve got to start having that serious discussion.”
Sigh
If only those standards had been applied to the banksters who crashed our economy, got bailed out by the taxpayers and returned to make even more money in the aftermath.
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That guy might also tell them to punch out, then stick around and keep working.
Divide and conquer is exactly what the GOP has been doing for years, getting part of the working class to side with them against the rest of the working class. I suppose it’s better than now they’re honest about it.
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What monsters these people are.
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Not to mention that more poor whites are on welfare than any other ethnic group.
But to the point: 'we’ve got to get them to look down at these people who choose to get into a condition …" He thinks social opprobrium will cure poverty? What an idiot, and of the first water.
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