GOP's Cruel Joplin Ransom

[RyanPsych]

Yesterday night, MSNBC showed a clip of high school students at a graduation ceremony in Joplin, Mo., last week hearing a speaker tell them how fortunate they were to be embarking on a new and exciting chapter in their lives.

One of those graduates, who is now homeless, talked about how different things were a week later and how fortunate he was to be alive.
Surveying the ruins of her home and the rubble around her, an elderly woman shook and cried as her husband put his arm around her. "All we have now is each other," she told the TV cameraman.

In the wake of the deadliest tornadoes in Missouri's history Republican Majority Leader Eric Cantor said he wouldn't okay aid money for the Joplin tornado victims unless Democrats agreed to an equal amount of spending cuts. Cantor said, "If there is support for a supplemental, it would be accompanied by support for having pay-fors to that supplemental."

"Having pay-fors for that supplemental" is Washington-speak for budget cuts - in other words, screwing the working class and poor.
Republicans gained the opportunity to hold hostage the storm victims because the federal disaster fund had to be replenished before the government could send the suffering people of Joplin the aid they so desperately need. Hundreds are dead, and hundreds are still missing in the working-class Missouri town where the average family earns $30,000.

continue at: http://www.peoplesworld.org/eric-cantor-s-ugly-ransom/

[Faygo Kid]

1. If the Koch brothers want something, the GOP is right there. The rest of us, not so much.

[angstlessk]

2. The point is they want to stop long term support for a one time shot in the arm for Joplin

It is equivalent to putting short term debt on a long term loan....it makes no sense!

[sakabatou]

3. May Cantor burn for his actions after he's gone.

[RyanPsych]

12. I may not believe in such things

but I kind of wish the same thing

[Demeter]

13. Why Wait Until Then?

[monmouth]

4. Was watching the Joplin people and their wonderful Governor Nixon

yesterday after the Governor and POTUS spoke their words. They loved the President, repubs are going to have big problems in '12 in the "Show Me" State, they don't like being held as a ransom...

[izquierdista]

5. But they LOVE their Repubs in Jasper county

Will the new Sen. Blunt speak up and say anything for his former district? Will any Democrat be able to point out to people what their own interest is? If the Repubs are screwing the working class and poor, these now homeless and destitute have been preparing for this screwing for a long time.

[Sonoman]

6. They must still be pissed that Ashcroft lost to the widder-lady.

Fuck them.

Sonoman

[Indykatie]

7. Did The Republicans Take This Same Stance

with assistance for Mississipi and Alabama? I don't recall Cantor making the same demands for those states. Could the tougher stance be because MO. has a Democratic governor?

[Sonoman]

8. That would be my take on it. nt

[Somawas]

9. Cantor is just

a skeevy mofo. I throw up a little every time I see him on tv.

[Citizen Worker]

10. We should be calling this for exactly what it is, class warfare! "Pay fors" weren't demanded for

the limitless bailout of the banks. Why not? Because the banksters are the ruling class.

[rasputinkhlyst]

11. This should be on the FRONT PAGE

Of every magazine and newspaper in the WORLD. Shine the light on these cockroaches and watch them run.