Except the Human being

"Why does Every Thing have Exceptional Value.  Except the Human being--why are we reduced to poverty and starving and anxiety and Sorrow So quickly under your administration as Chief Executor can not you find a quicker way of executing us than to starve us to death?"--From a letter to Herbert Hoover, 1930

From President Hoover right on through Bush the Lesser there is one thing the poor can expect from republican leaders:  to make their suffering even worse.  Now, their feckless economic dunce, Paul Ryan, has vowed to take on such successful programs as Head Start and Medicaid just to see how much higher he can drive poverty rates in America and how many more children he can leave hungry each and every night.  It is not in their DNA to help those in need--they're the type of folks who would walk past a sleeping beggar and steal the money in the hat at his feet, feeling it's just a case of you snooze, you lose.  His thinking (if you can call it that) is as President Obama stresses the need to lessen income inequality, republicans will stress the positives of turning America into Bangladesh of 1974.

Mr. Ryan, who is a big fan of the laissez-capitalist writer Ayn Rand (one of the few writers who make Mitch Albom read like a Nobel Laureate), would do well to heed the works of  Suzanne Collins:  in her books, the poor folks eventually got sick of suffering at the hands of the rich folks and killed them.

Peace,
emaycee