Doctors say cutting food stamps could backfire

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7. Any country club Republican would tell you the same:

What's the point of having money if you can't enjoy the wailing cries of misery coming from the destitute masses being crushed beneath your cleated golf shoes?

The wealthy require the continual spectacle of poverty and human suffering because they find in it a constant reassurance of God's favored disposition toward them for the "moral superiority" of their character over the vulgar and wicked underclasses who suffer God's wrath. It is psychologically reassuring for the rich to view the suffering of the less fortunate as a kind of morality drama in which they themselves are the hero protagonists.

As for the reactionary working class Tea Bag Republicans, like any abused child they are just happy to see someone else getting beaten up worse then they've been beaten. As any po-white-trash racist Kluxer will tell you, nothing gives a powerless person a thrill quite like being able to kick the crap out of someone that's even more powerless then yourself.

Republican ideology is a form of mental illness, and taking food out of the mouths of the poor satisfies the pathological psychological needs of both types of Republicans.