One of the lasting gifts from Capitalism to the Working, and
non-working citizens is eternal reprisal.
For example, if you are forced to take a low paying job with no
benefits, Capitalism tells you that it's your own Damned fault. You
should have gone to college and trained for a better position. Even
if there are no positions around. That's your fault, too. It's
sometimes called, victimizing the victims.
But it all goes back to Religion as the basis for our attitude of
reprisal. One slip, one misstep and there is no return. It all began
when Eve slipped the forbidden fruit to Adam. How was Eve to know
that God had the place loaded with surveillance cameras. "Okay
Kiddos," God bellowed. "Just because I created you out of mud and
smelly rotted stuff, and then stole one of your ribs because I was too
lazy to gather up more mud and gooey gook, and made you this Help
Mate, does not let you off the hook." God shook the Heavens and Earth
and cried out, "Be gone! you got only one chance and you blew it.
Now it's wandering the Wilderness for you." And God wasn't just
blowing smoke. Although He blew lots of that, too. But the Garden of
Eden was closed up, locked down, and hauled off to God only knows
where. No sign of it. All because Eve thought that her Man would
like to enjoy a piece of fruit.
And we think we got a chance with the Big Guy?
Carl Jarvis
On 1/30/16, Miriam Vieni <miriamvieni@optonline.net> wrote:
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> How Americans Are Increasingly Turning Their Backs on the Poor
> http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/how_american_are_increasingly_turning_th
> eir_backs_on_the_poor_20160128/
>
> Posted on Jan 28, 2016
> By Isaiah J. Poole / OtherWords
>
> clementine gallot / CC BY 2.0
> This piece originally ran on OtherWords.
> With the winter winds of January came a flurry of reports that several
> states were moving to cut thousands of people from their Supplemental
> Nutritional Assistance Program (SNAP, or "food stamp") rolls.
> In New Jersey, for example, Governor Chris Christie pulled the plug on
> benefits to 11,000 unemployed state residents.
> By this spring, an estimated 500,000 people nationwide could be cut off.
> For
> most of them, the maximum benefit of less than $200 a month is all the
> federal aid they get. For some, it's their entire income.
> These people live in states that have chosen to reinstate work requirements
> on able-bodied adults without children, which had been suspended since the
> 2008 economic downturn. It means that single adults who aren't working at
> least 20 hours a week or participating in a job-training program may only
> get three months of nutrition assistance in a three-year period. After
> that,
> they're on their own.
> Some people call this a successful example of welfare reform at work. But
> to
> experts like Joe Soss, a University of Minnesota professor who studies the
> drive to "end welfare as we know it" that started in the 1990s under
> President Bill Clinton, it's the latest chapter in a misguided ideological
> campaign.
> This drive is a consequence, he told me, of political rhetoric suggesting
> that low-income people are poor because of their inability to exercise
> self-discipline and make good choices.
> "It's a modern update of longstanding prejudices," Soss explained. These
> "get-tough policies are cast as benefiting the poor in the long run," he
> added, while their hardline supporters claim to shield taxpayers from
> "criminal thugs, undocumented immigrants, and those who live off the
> welfare
> system."
> His 2011 book, Disciplining the Poor, chronicles the rise of what Soss
> calls
> "poverty governance" over the past 40 years. "Efforts to get tough with the
> poor have often been a bipartisan affair," Soss said. "But
> Republican-controlled states have generally been at the forefront of
> efforts
> to restrict social supports - from cash aid to nutrition, housing, and
> health care - and to use poor people's behaviors as a litmus test for
> government help."
> That approach was evident earlier this year, when six of the Republican
> presidential candidates attended an antipoverty forum in South Carolina
> inspired by the late "bleeding-heart conservative" politician Jack Kemp.
> Christie took part. But the way his policies have played out is less
> bleeding-heart than cold-blooded.
> Under Christie's leadership, New Jersey has sharply reduced the share of
> federal block grant money it spends on direct cash assistance to needy
> families, according to the Center for Budget and Policy Priorities. But as
> the number of people getting help has fallen, the percentage of the state's
> residents living in poverty actually went up - from 9 percent to 11 percent
> - between 2009 and 2012.
> Now, community servants worry that more stringent work rules for food
> assistance are being imposed when there isn't enough job and education
> assistance for people who need it. "I don't know where these work programs
> are. And I know we are not ready for this," Diane Riley of the Community
> FoodBank of New Jersey told NJ.com.
> It's a story that's being repeated across the country. The trend is also
> fueling a debate - not over whether people should be working instead of
> receiving welfare, but whether we get there by investing more in education,
> training, and job creation, or by slashing budgets, shaming the poor, and
> turning our backs.
> Isaiah J. Poole is the online communications director at Campaign for
> America's Future.
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> How Americans Are Increasingly Turning Their Backs on the Poor
> http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/how_american_are_increasingly_turning_th
> eir_backs_on_the_poor_20160128/
>
> Posted on Jan 28, 2016
> By Isaiah J. Poole / OtherWords
>
> clementine gallot / CC BY 2.0
> This piece originally ran on OtherWords.
> With the winter winds of January came a flurry of reports that several
> states were moving to cut thousands of people from their Supplemental
> Nutritional Assistance Program (SNAP, or "food stamp") rolls.
> In New Jersey, for example, Governor Chris Christie pulled the plug on
> benefits to 11,000 unemployed state residents.
> By this spring, an estimated 500,000 people nationwide could be cut off.
> For
> most of them, the maximum benefit of less than $200 a month is all the
> federal aid they get. For some, it's their entire income.
> These people live in states that have chosen to reinstate work requirements
> on able-bodied adults without children, which had been suspended since the
> 2008 economic downturn. It means that single adults who aren't working at
> least 20 hours a week or participating in a job-training program may only
> get three months of nutrition assistance in a three-year period. After
> that,
> they're on their own.
> Some people call this a successful example of welfare reform at work. But
> to
> experts like Joe Soss, a University of Minnesota professor who studies the
> drive to "end welfare as we know it" that started in the 1990s under
> President Bill Clinton, it's the latest chapter in a misguided ideological
> campaign.
> This drive is a consequence, he told me, of political rhetoric suggesting
> that low-income people are poor because of their inability to exercise
> self-discipline and make good choices.
> "It's a modern update of longstanding prejudices," Soss explained. These
> "get-tough policies are cast as benefiting the poor in the long run," he
> added, while their hardline supporters claim to shield taxpayers from
> "criminal thugs, undocumented immigrants, and those who live off the
> welfare
> system."
> His 2011 book, Disciplining the Poor, chronicles the rise of what Soss
> calls
> "poverty governance" over the past 40 years. "Efforts to get tough with the
> poor have often been a bipartisan affair," Soss said. "But
> Republican-controlled states have generally been at the forefront of
> efforts
> to restrict social supports - from cash aid to nutrition, housing, and
> health care - and to use poor people's behaviors as a litmus test for
> government help."
> That approach was evident earlier this year, when six of the Republican
> presidential candidates attended an antipoverty forum in South Carolina
> inspired by the late "bleeding-heart conservative" politician Jack Kemp.
> Christie took part. But the way his policies have played out is less
> bleeding-heart than cold-blooded.
> Under Christie's leadership, New Jersey has sharply reduced the share of
> federal block grant money it spends on direct cash assistance to needy
> families, according to the Center for Budget and Policy Priorities. But as
> the number of people getting help has fallen, the percentage of the state's
> residents living in poverty actually went up - from 9 percent to 11 percent
> - between 2009 and 2012.
> Now, community servants worry that more stringent work rules for food
> assistance are being imposed when there isn't enough job and education
> assistance for people who need it. "I don't know where these work programs
> are. And I know we are not ready for this," Diane Riley of the Community
> FoodBank of New Jersey told NJ.com.
> It's a story that's being repeated across the country. The trend is also
> fueling a debate - not over whether people should be working instead of
> receiving welfare, but whether we get there by investing more in education,
> training, and job creation, or by slashing budgets, shaming the poor, and
> turning our backs.
> Isaiah J. Poole is the online communications director at Campaign for
> America's Future.
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