RE: Pray for the poor
December 6, 2011 at 10:10 pm
(This post was last modified: December 6, 2011 at 10:26 pm by TheDarkestOfAngels.)
I suppose it's better than the republican stratagy for the poor.
"Hey, you know what'll help the poor? Increasing the tax base to include all those non-americans who aren't paying taxes, giving tax cuts to the 'job creators,' and allowing poor kids to work menial jobs for less than minimum wage." - My summation of Congress' goals and ideals of the current Republican Candidates for Prez
Also, overwhelmingly voting to transform this nation into a police state. This is an actual thing.
"Hey, you know what'll help the poor? Increasing the tax base to include all those non-americans who aren't paying taxes, giving tax cuts to the 'job creators,' and allowing poor kids to work menial jobs for less than minimum wage." - My summation of Congress' goals and ideals of the current Republican Candidates for Prez
Also, overwhelmingly voting to transform this nation into a police state. This is an actual thing.
If today you can take a thing like evolution and make it a crime to teach in the public schools, tomorrow you can make it a crime to teach it in the private schools and next year you can make it a crime to teach it to the hustings or in the church. At the next session you may ban books and the newspapers...
Ignorance and fanaticism are ever busy and need feeding. Always feeding and gloating for more. Today it is the public school teachers; tomorrow the private. The next day the preachers and the lecturers, the magazines, the books, the newspapers. After a while, Your Honor, it is the setting of man against man and creed against creed until with flying banners and beating drums we are marching backward to the glorious ages of the sixteenth centry when bigots lighted fagots to burn the men who dared to bring any intelligence and enlightenment and culture to the human mind. ~Clarence Darrow, at the Scopes Monkey Trial, 1925
Politics is supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first. ~Ronald Reagan
Ignorance and fanaticism are ever busy and need feeding. Always feeding and gloating for more. Today it is the public school teachers; tomorrow the private. The next day the preachers and the lecturers, the magazines, the books, the newspapers. After a while, Your Honor, it is the setting of man against man and creed against creed until with flying banners and beating drums we are marching backward to the glorious ages of the sixteenth centry when bigots lighted fagots to burn the men who dared to bring any intelligence and enlightenment and culture to the human mind. ~Clarence Darrow, at the Scopes Monkey Trial, 1925
Politics is supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first. ~Ronald Reagan
