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This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1324343
Fuck Tom Tomorrow, unapologetic Naderite.
Arkansas has to stop picking Cotton.
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Nice article. Too bad its preaching to the converted here.
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Tom Cotton wears his self-righteousness and bigotry like a cloak.
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Take the percentage of Wyoming farmers and ranchers who receive Federal subsidies and compare it to the percentage of Federal workers in DC.
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More like a white sheet…
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Food stamps is first and foremost an subsidy to farming.
The most Government subsidized business in particular and life style in general is American agriculture and rural life. Agriculture is the only segment of the economy that has its own cabinet secretary and every time an urban dweller mails a letter or pays a utility bill they are subsidizing rural life. When Cotton complains about food stamps he either is too dumb or too racist to realize that food stamps first and foremost is a subsidy to agriculture.
The problem is well nobody lives off the government tit more than farmers and rural dwellers, heck but for FDR most of them would not even have indoor pluming, nobody mentions it. That is when those sucking the Government dry complain about those in the city using Government services no one points out the hypocrisy.
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OF COURSE, they are. The GOP has always regarded DC as their very own petri dish to keep their thumb on. They use ‘the same racist rhetoric’ because in certain segments of society it works. Do you think ‘we can’t give the people a $600 boost in unemployment because they sit home and don’t want to work’ is anything MORE than ‘they are just WELFARE QUEENS!’? C’mon.
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Or electricity.
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He realizes it, but he’s way too racist to be honest.
Next for Tom Cotton: removing statehood status from Rhode Island and Delaware – oh, wait, they’re the suburbs.
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I wonder how Cotton feels about Vatican City being a sovereign state
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Does its existence increase his personal power?
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“Washington is a city, with all the characteristics of a city, not a state”
I guess Confederate Cotton does not recognize places like Singapore or Hong Kong as states or countries, since they are also lowly cities.
Or that NYC has a GDP comparable to S Korea, and is an economic engine for NY, NJ, and CT.
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The article is a nice reprise of the 40+ years of reaction in this country that have brought us to the catastrophes of the past two decades: the Iraq boondoggle, the financial collapse and, now, a pandemic in which the federal government works against immediate, successful control of the disease regardless of the cost in lives ruined and lost.
This list does not include include imminent disasters, like those deriving from climate change, or many others.
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That’ll depend on how he feels about the Papists and their international conspiracy to dominate governance.
It is, afterall, amore rightward antecedent of, and competitor to, Hillary and Soros ongoing lib’rul plot.
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There was a university study by a urban studies professor in the 90’s looking at the Black working and middle class neighborhoods in New York City. Some of these census tracts and neighborhoods had higher median incomes than comparable White neighborhoods. The common denominator that he found that kept these places from decaying was the stability of civil service, government and the non for profit jobs, many of them with two incomes.
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And you can bet your bippy that the entire Deep State propaganda push is also deeply rooted in the fact that the federal govt provides widespread employment for POC at a disproportionate rate…
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