Rush Limbaugh Picks On Poor Kids, Says They Should Starve At School

[Galraedia]

The School Meal Program feeds millions of kids every year. I should know. I was one of them. So were my two siblings. I was raised by a single mother who worked damn hard taking care of senior citizens for little pay. So little in fact, that we qualified for free or reduced breakfasts and lunches at school. I would go to school every morning, eat a good breakfast, and begin learning on a full stomach instead of an empty one. As a result, I was able to focus on my education without feeling hunger. Statistics show that kids who are hungry don’t learn as well. They have a hard time concentrating because their stomachs are screaming for food. I was lucky. I got to eat two meals a day at school, and avoided becoming just another statistic.

But according to Rush Limbaugh, I should have starved my way through school. On his radio show, Limbaugh whined about poor students being on the School Meal Program, saying that feeding them instead of letting them starve turns them into “wanton waifs and serfs dependent on the state.” That’s funny, I’m not dependent on the state. I’m not on welfare nor do I ask for state assistance. I graduated high school, went on to graduate college, and now I’m a writer and certified teacher. Because of the school meals that kept me focused on learning, I was able to succeed and find work I enjoy. But that’s not the way Rush Limbaugh sees it:

“If you feed them, if you feed the children, three square meals a day during the school year, how can you expect them to feed themselves in the summer?”

Here's the audio: http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/201112120011

Read more: http://www.addictinginfo.org/2011/12/17/rush-limbaugh-picks-on-poor-kids-says-they-should-starve-at-school-audio/

Reposted since the original thread( http://www.democraticunderground.com/10145082#post14) was locked for being "off-topic" O_o ...?

[U of M Dem]

1. Limbaugh and Gingrich...

want to escalate poverty into an all out battle royale between school aged youth for bread crumbs and cheap electronics.

[Zalatix]

13. Call it Hunger Games. n/t

.

[gtar100]

27. Well, to be fair, they are really doing this to bring jobs back to America.

Low paying sweatshop and child labor type jobs. But jobs nonetheless.

[Scootaloo]

2. An obese man telling others to starve

The 1% in a nutshell.

[Zalatix]

25. That's more true than you realize.

The whole point of Conservatism and Republican politics is to starve the poor out of existence.

It's too awful for people to realize, but once you stop and look at what they've done, the conclusion is inescapable.

[gtar100]

28. Not necessarily to starve them out of existence; more like into submission.

They seek out others to do the hard and dirty work. Slavery is a time-honored tradition among the elite throughout the ages. Just because it has been banned for 100+ odd years doesn't mean they've forgotten just how profitable it was for them.

Anyone willing to pay someone minimum wage would gladly pay them less.

[Zalatix]

29. They're looking to automation for the hard and dirty work.

Go visit the Georgia Guidestone to see what they really want. It's the first thing on the Guidestone's agenda: reduce the human population to 500 million.

[saras]

30. Too bad the truth is too much for so many - they're still whining "why are the Repubs NOT NICE??"

[Zalatix]

31. You get it, clear as a bell. n/t

.

[gtar100]

33. Interesting. I guess they really did codify and 'set into stone' their wishes.

Here's the complete set of guidelines engraved on the Georgia Guidestones
[font size="2" color="blue"]
1. Maintain humanity under 500,000,000 in perpetual balance with nature.
2. Guide reproduction wisely — improving fitness and diversity.
3. Unite humanity with a living new language.
4. Rule passion — faith — tradition — and all things with tempered reason.
5. Protect people and nations with fair laws and just courts.
6. Let all nations rule internally resolving external disputes in a world court.
7. Avoid petty laws and useless officials.
8. Balance personal rights with social duties.
9. Prize truth — beauty — love — seeking harmony with the infinite.
10. Be not a cancer on the earth — Leave room for nature — Leave room for nature.

(source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgia_Guidestones)
[/font]
I can understand the principles all right but given the mentality of the elite, they don't have it in them to carry this out with any sense of justice. It's merely the wet dream of despots and tyrants. It begs the question, just who is it that gets to decide!

Anybody who attempted to carry out a plan to bring this into fruition would carry into their paradise with them the selfishness, greed and hubris that fuels their inspiration. They will not escape from their own hell.

Liberal/Progressive ideology provides a much more sane approach to the problems these people are attempting to address. Consider all the work we have done over the past century involving:

1. Education
2. Health care
3. Economic regulations and tax fairness.
4. Human rights.
5. Animal rights.
5. Democracy in the workplace as well as politics.
6. Environmental protections and regulations.
7. Clean alternative energy sources
etc...

The Liberal world view does hold an alternative to the masked draconian measures eluded to in this elite 'Guidestone'. The vulnerability of the liberal viewpoint, however, is that it doesn't provide quick, easy solutions and has been undermined too easily by its detractors. Case in point - Rush Limbaugh. From our perspective he's an absolute crackpot. He would be utterly marginalized by a liberal system of values as would any right-winger. Therefore, they fight against every one of these initiatives regardless of what good it would do them. And they are doing a bang-up job of making a mess of everything in the process. If they really believed in the Georgia Guidestone principles, they ought to consider well that the ends never justify the means.

[StarsInHerHair]

3. what a ruffian, contradicting the New Testament & attacking American children, he has no manners,

is rude & declasse'. Obviously he does not know how to behave in polite society.

[Zalatix]

14. The man is an uncivilized savage. n/t

.

[StarsInHerHair]

15. exactly, no manners, no tact, no empathy-sociapath!

[FarLeftFist]

4. Can't believe Obama caused Rush and Beckkk to start doing drugs again.

[Initech]

39. Did they ever stop?

[totodeinhere]

5. I stopped paying attention to anything that bombastic ass said a long time ago. n/t

[Douglas Carpenter]

6. remember when the right-wing used to pretend that they cared about the poor?

They simply claimed that their policies would help raise people out of poverty, "A rising tide raises all ships." Now they don't feel the need to pretend anymore.

[Scootaloo]

7. I hate when they use that phrase, becuase they use it wrong

After all, the tide lifts from the bottom, and the biggest boats rise last. They want to use that line? Fund the poor. That tide will lift the rich with it.

[Galraedia]

9. Actually, it's more like

"A rising tide lifts all yachts."

[Zalatix]

11. A rising tide lifts boats and drowns villages. n/t

.

[MindMover]

8. only song can answer a blovateur as humongous as Limbaugh.....

&feature=player_embedded

[GiveMeFreedom]

10. fuck rush

Think about if this fucking idiot missed a few meals all the weight he'd loose. But of course he won't.

[treestar]

12. I get so sick of that right wing excuse

That any state help will automatically make people "dependent" for life. The kid doesn't care who provides the food. Do we all become dependent for life because our parents fed us when we were kids?

[SpiralHawk]

16. Typical pill-popping draft-dodging RepubliOinker picking on poor children

[fasttense]

17. From the looks of his jowls and fat face, he's been eating the poor children. n/t

[Riley18]

18. That pig is their canary because his "job"

is to both make a talking point begin and also to judge wingnut support for the idea.

The simple answer to pig's question is that the schools continue to provide breakfast and lunch throughout the summer. He should be in agreement as he appears to never miss a meal himself.

I am getting concerned because children are being mentioned by Gingrich and Limbaugh. They are pushing an ideology that our children are not equal to the elites' kids. The idea that our kids can scrub toilets and scrounge for food is an outrage.

[tsuki]

20. Actually, I think Rush is behind on this.

I have been hearing this around here since the buddy pack was announced. Nothing gets that ball of hatred rising like feeding the children at no cost to the taxpayer.

[underpants]

19. The School lunch act of 1946 was created due the 40% of WWII draftees rejected due to bad diet

primarily bad teeth and vision

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=3441535&mesg_id=3441540

[Riley18]

21. So free and reduced lunch is a national defense

item. Also, it helps agriculture profits. Anyone opposed is anti-business and basically anti-American.

[underpants]

22. Exactly

and Big Agri is NOT going to allow anything to happen to this program. Most of the menu items are from the 4 major "subsidized" crops - wheat, soybeans, and of course CORN lots and lots of corn. The fourth by the way is cotton - they just haven't figured out how to pay off politicians to make it okay to sell food made of cotton....yet. I am sure they are working on it

Food Fight by Daniel Imhoff is a great read.

[glowing]

23. No, but cotton is the reason that hemp is

Still not grown in America, even though everyone with a brain knows u can't get high off it.... However u can make durable clothes that last for years, unlike cotton products that will need to be re-bought more often.

[oldhippydude]

24. whats wrong with

cotton candy?

[gtar100]

26. "Picking yourself up by your own bootstraps" is a perfect analogy for republicans.

They love this saying. They honor it for the "rugged individualism" it engenders in their minds.

But I think it's a perfect analogy for them to hang their hats on for one simple reason:

It's impossible to do.

Fits them to a tee! The cornerstone of their belief system is represented by an analogy that is a factual impossibility. How perfectly appropriate.

[saras]

32. Not only that, the attempt will smash your face into the pavement - more fun for them.

[secondvariety]

34. I've wondered

if that pig actually believes the shit he spews or is he just pandering to the mouth breathers. Either way, it says something about America that he's so popular.

[certainot]

38. he actually believes that particular shit. he's that 'popular' because they bought him a monopoly

and make sure he seldom gets real calls that would embarrass him. his show was given away to start his career and radio stations were bought up to put him on and protect him from competition. his stations are almost exclusively RW so he can't be contradicted on the same station. most of the other RW talkers get their material from the same think tanks to reinforce his lies and never contradict him.

he is a very talented liar and propagandist but contrary to popular opinion his 'popularity' is not the result of market forces- many of his stations are the loudest in every state and may often also broadcast university sports, traffic- local advertising is often making a business decision to go with the flow. he get the big bucks for selling war, global warming denial, deregulation tax breaks for billionaires, excuses for republicans, and political attack.

in most parts of the country there are NO free alternatives for politics while driving or working.

[Lost-in-FL]

35. He's right. They should drug test children if they want pizza... err... healthy vegetables.

[certainot]

36. and to think many of our universities keep this guy fed by broadcasting sports on his radio stations

15 out of 16 NCAA bball finalists last year broadcast on his stations, essentially endorsing him.

many more in the US do the same. if any significant number were pressured to honor their mission statements, break those contracts and find alternatives, rush would take a major hit.

[McCamy Taylor]

37. That's what folks say about feeding wild animals. Rush must be desperate for attention.