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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsRep. Stephen Fincher: “If the Poor Want Their Children to Eat… Sell them as Slaves.”
Appearing on Fox News, Tennessee Representative Stephen Fincher addressed the charges of hypocrisy and callousness leveled at him by Democrats, again quoting the Bible to justify his positions. Leviticus 25-45, the children of the strangers that do live among you, of them shall ye buy, and of their families that are with you, which they begat in your land and they shall be your possession. And whats stranger than poor people? Am I right? Right? He said grinning and raising his hand for a high-five, which was answered quickly by a smiling Eric Bolling.
The controversy started two weeks ago while a debate was taking place in the House Agriculture Committee over $4.1 billion in cuts to the food stamp program, now known as SNAP, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program. Stephen Fincher made his position clear that the government should not be in the business of feeding children or helping the poor, quoting the Bible for added emphasis. For even when we were with you, we gave you this command: Anyone unwilling to work should not eat. (The quote is actually about warning people against waiting for the second-coming, not as a justification to deny food to those in need.) The callousness is evident to anyone; the hypocrisy became obvious when it was found out that Mr. Fincher has taken millions from the government personally. The $3.5 million he has collected for his farm in subsidies, is from programs that he supports and has voted to increase funding for.
Look, Im a Christian and Im far better than those atheists on the other side of the aisle who want to use the government to feed the poor, Stephen Fincher said to the Fox panel. Thats how Hitler and Stalin started out - feeding the poor. But Im not heartless at all; its all about tough-love. And its also a win-win situation. We all know God wants to help the rich and powerful, or they wouldnt be rich and powerful, he said to the beaming and nodding hosts on The Five. Thats why the government should give more money to people like me who know how to spend it. We could buy the poor people and then we would be obligated to feed them
if they work hard enough. After a thoughtful pause. Ill say it again, this is other peoples money that Washington is appropriating and spending. It should go to me.
I have to say thank you on so many levels Steve, said Greg Gutfeld. Not only for figuring out how to feed those douche-bags, and for trying to bring back slavery, but as a comedian too. I have so many hungry children and slavery jokes Im dying to tell
See, thats why right-wing humor works, its
its gettable!
Tell your big news, Andrea K. Tantaros said. Were all just dancing around it.
Okay, heres my plan. Im going to introduce a bill next week. It will eliminate food stamps and give that money to well-off white Christian males, and legalize the buying and selling of those who cant feed themselves. Its called, The American Patriots Love of God and Country, bill.
Im a Democrat and I love this bill! Bob Beckel announced. What could be better than helping the wealthy and the poor at the same time?
Newest Reality
(12,712 posts)marym625
(17,997 posts)Here is one of many articles. Mobile link.
http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2013/05/21/2042831/congressman-who-gets-millions-in-farm-subsidies-denounces-food-stamps-as-stealing-other-peoples-money/?mobile=wp
hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)marym625
(17,997 posts)Nice to be here.
niyad
(113,329 posts)20score
(4,769 posts)But the second paragraph is real. And the quote, "this is other peoples money that Washington is appropriating and spending."
lunasun
(21,646 posts)20score
(4,769 posts)These are real:
Everything in the second paragraph is true.
For even when we were with you, we gave you this command: Anyone unwilling to work should not eat.
"this is other peoples money that Washington is appropriating and spending."
BlueToTheBone
(3,747 posts)I suggest that you always take ownership of your writing.
They are an incredible bunch of horrible creatures that inhabit our planet.
20score
(4,769 posts)I'm serious about attribution. We love it. You become more credible. :
20score
(4,769 posts)(Took a few breaks, but thought I was still known.) Always debate with myself on whether or not to label it as satire. Thought this one was so over the top it wasn't necessary. Guess I was wrong.
Brigid
(17,621 posts)Even "The Onion" is having trouble these days because the things these fools actually do say is so jaw-dropping.
BlueToTheBone
(3,747 posts)I just think you should own your writing. Good stuff.
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(4,769 posts)backscatter712
(26,355 posts)20score
(4,769 posts)Matariki
(18,775 posts)i need to get into the habit of reading the entire thread before posting
Mopar151
(9,983 posts)Jackpine Radical
(45,274 posts)The True Believers know he's speaking straight from the heart with his advocacy of slavery, and they understand that he has to couch it as a "joke" to avoid outrage from everyone to the left of Sarah Palin.
And they understand that "the poor" who are destined for enslavement (or, more correctly. re-enslavement) are those dark-skinned "Others" who escaped from their natural roles in society as an immediate result of the unfortunate outcome of the Civil War.
Buns_of_Fire
(17,181 posts)Arkansas Granny
(31,518 posts)That's the sound my jaw made when I realized that this asshole had actually made these statements and it wasn't a parody from the Onion. How Kristian of him..
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(4,769 posts)Buns_of_Fire
(17,181 posts)This is why I seldom make any comment about the teabaggers "scraping the bottom of the barrel" by endorsing such-and-such loonie for office. Whenever I even think it, I'm reminded that their barrel is apparently deeper than the human mind can comprehend.
I liked your satire, by the way.
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(4,769 posts)theaocp
(4,240 posts)I really don't know what I would do if I was F2F with him.
punkin87
(350 posts)This guy needs taking down. And with humor too!
brewens
(13,590 posts)don't want their kids to git learnt no science or history. Unless of course it's science or history invented in Texas. I say Texas because that seems to be the source of text books favored by the right and their Republican party platform had a bizarre anti-critical thinking plank.
I thought that if teabaggers don't want their kids to have a real education, so be it. That could be a source of cheap menial labor. Set up special "Jethro Schools" for them. After maybe six years or so, they could be eligible to go to work. Someone like Rush Limbaugh should be all for that. He could buy himself a harem of peasant houseboys to frolic with. No more traveling to The Dominican Republic for it.
freshwest
(53,661 posts)They won't know any different than the Deltas or the Gammas. Permanent underclass and cheap incubators for whoever can pay.
And a stable for Rush, too.
Lady Freedom Returns
(14,120 posts)But instead of the "Southern Model" they are going for the "Northern Model".
lunasun
(21,646 posts)Leviticus 25-45, the children of the strangers that do live among you, of them shall ye buy, and of their families that are with you, which they begat in your land and they shall be your possession.
God given right then I guess
and he knows it!!
Skittles
(153,164 posts)TNNurse
(6,927 posts)We would much rather the government use our tax money to feed children than to send them off to be killed in wars or give it to the wealthy or anyone on Wall Street.
We People
(619 posts)Thanks, TNNurse. So true.
TNNurse
(6,927 posts)so very much. I see things pretty simply.
dem in texas
(2,674 posts)A sad statement on the people who are elected in Tennessee. Sell children into slavery. Plus a woman representative said women don't want fair pay laws. In Texas, we sent Gohmert and Stockman. Can the US system of democracy survive with wing-nuts like these people serving in Congress?
Dash87
(3,220 posts)undergroundpanther
(11,925 posts)Ever think they could"own" me, I will not be owned,I have no gods no 'masters'. I'll starve rather than do ANYTHING for arrogant pasty white dhristianazi pigs like that. They are beneath me.These rethugs in government are a waste of skin.WTF good are they? Rich spoiled brats in fantasy land.They don't deserve anything but hate and scorn,rejection and to be removed from anything relating to government or public service.A Cotton Mathers Wannabe?.Why the fuck does anyone tolerate such psychopathy in power. They should be run out of office with a pitchfork and poked until they are 'done'.
marym625
(17,997 posts)NC has passed a bill for one of the best programs in the country to ensure children are fed. During discussion Ray Canterbury proposed that the poorest of the children work for their meals. The Republican party is no longer even discernible from the party of half century ago. It is filled with misogynists, homohaters, racists and religious fanatics. The tea party, though it seems impossible, is even worse.
People did believe this satire as truth. That's so sad and not necessarily a comment on the reader.
Always enjoy your work, 20score. This is right up there with some of your best.
G_j
(40,367 posts)to Jesus and the "least among you"?
The current cuntservatives and teabaggers prefer the OT.
backscatter712
(26,355 posts)The only books of the Bible they read are Leviticus and Revelations.
Dash87
(3,220 posts)And of course it would happen on "The Five (Douchebags)."
I'm surprised Neil Cavuto or Greg Gutfeld haven't called for enslaving the poor yet.
HughBeaumont
(24,461 posts)Really, NOTHING these pigs say surprise me any longer. There really IS no depth to which they'll sink.
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(4,769 posts)DiverDave
(4,886 posts)guy out?
What is is chances of re-election?
Should be pretty easy to get him out with statements like these
indepat
(20,899 posts)bible-thumping man of God to Congress, I have just three words: shame, shame, shame!
suede1
(892 posts)onlyadream
(2,166 posts)They may think it, but they won't say it.