Sadly, many Republican members of Congress DO vote consistently to take food out of the mouths of children living in poverty. They do that and, without blinking, vote to continue subsidies to corporations like big oil companies that are making windfall profits. In the Farm Bill vote, they opted to eliminate food stamps while subsidizing behemoth factory farms that are far from needy.
Your Congressman is back in his or her home district for a five-week "recess" and likely at church on this August Sunday morning. I wonder how those who cast votes that lead to hungry children can sit comfortably with their hypocrisy. Don't you wonder about that?
Note: Since about 32 members of the combined House and Senate are of the Jewish faith, they would not be in church this morning. Nor would Representative Keith Ellison whose religion is the Islamic tradition. In looking at a list of members of the Jewish faith earlier this morning, it was interesting to see that all of the Jewish members of the House are Democrats, with the exception of Eric Cantor, (R) Virginia. The exception in the Senate is Vermont's Bernie Sanders, an Independent who caucuses with Democrats and a champion of the poor. And thankfully so are many Democrats.
So, the bottom line: It's unconscionable to shower corporations like the oil companies and behemoth factory farms with huge government subsidies while gutting programs for the poor. There's madness in not only voting to give big tax breaks to the extremely wealthy, but fighting for those tax breaks. How many Republicans do you see fighting to better the lives of the poor? There's no way I can understand how they live with themselves. I wonder whether there's any trace of a conscience in them, whether they ever had an active conscience. I wonder whether it was a matter of trading their conscience for a ticket in the lottery of self-perpetuation. I mean the poor aren't financing Congressional campaigns, are they?
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