Rep. Thomas Massie(R) isn't sure that Americans should have a right to food.

[workinclasszero]

Kentucky congressman questions food stamps: ‘If healthcare is a right, is food as well?’

A GOP congressman’s tweet about food stamps elicits widespread criticism online

Published: Dec 1, 2018 9:20 a.m. ET

Massie, a Republican from Kentucky, posed the question on Twitter, seemingly in an attempt to combat criticism from Democrats of conservative lawmakers’ proposals to reform the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), commonly known as food stamps, against a backdrop of Democrats, emboldened after the midterms, proposing that Medicare be made available to all Americans.

“How long until someone runs on the platform of #FoodStampsForAll?” Massie tweeted. “If healthcare is a right, is food as well?”

Massie’s tweet prompted thousands of Twitter users to respond. One replied, apparently in jest, “Next they’ll be demanding air.” Some replied applauding Massie for suggesting the idea of creating an universal food stamp program.

Others argued that Massie’s comments were hypocritical given that he is pro-life and puts his Christian faith front and center.

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/kentucky-congressman-questions-food-stamps-if-healthcare-is-a-right-is-food-as-well-2018-11-29

[Hermit-The-Prog]

1. someone send this moron a pocket Constitution

We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.

[workinclasszero]

3. That only applies to the 1% and the white evangelical right

The rest of us are useless eaters in the eyes of the GOP

[Hortensis]

2. Same old. Strong conservatives have a dark view of human nature.

He, like the others, is sure that helping people in trouble will result in their refusal to work and care for themselves. No amount of the data that repeatedly show very few are willing to live their lives that way if they have an alternative will change his mind.

Nor will the many studies that show that most of those who do end up continuing on public assistance have genuine, identifiable issues that explain their dysfunction, some permanently remediable with some additional help, others just plain permanent.

Like Trump's personality disorder that almost certainly would have kept him from holding honest jobs and earning an honest living. When he wasn't living off illicit gains, exploiting working wives, in jail, or collecting public assistance fraudulently, he may have have legitimately qualified for public assistance on grounds of mental disability. If he lived in a blue state where it was available, of course.

But you can be sure Massie's motives are of the highest. Government interference with the natural order that rewards good behavior and punishes bad will cause the degradation and inevitable collapse of society.

And no amount of quoting Jesus will force him to recognize the dissonance between his firm belief systems. That's what compartmentalization and other protective mental devices are for. He really doesn't see it.