Isn’t it ironic that the federal government distributes food stamps to 46 million people while at the same time discourages national park visitors from feeding the animals?
No?
Well, don’t tell that to the Oklahoma Republican Party because they think this is the height of irony. After all, as they helpfully explain, the National Park Service doesn’t want you to feed the animals because they “will grow dependent on handouts and will not learn to take care of themselves.”
Let’s set aside for a moment that there’s a suggestion here that human nature and animal nature have something in common, which isn’t the case obviously since God created not Adam and Steve, but Adam and Eve. I know for certain that the Oklahoma GOP doesn’t want to suggest that there is any merit to the theory of evolution.
Here’s what I’d like to talk about. If we have 46 million people in need of some level of food assistance, maybe there might be a bit of a problem with the worldview that people will be able to fend for themselves if only liberals don’t give them handouts.
I’m just saying.
The GOP message is clear the poor are to be treated as what they are lowly animals to the GOP masters.
Sounds like the Oklahoma Republican Party is happy to carry the Jim Crow flag…
So if we stop providing military hardware to, say, certain middle eastern countries, they’ll no longer need the hand that “feeds” them, right?
I’m particularly worried that 3-year-olds will become dependent on handouts rather than learning to fend for themselves. Also Walmart employees.
Why do you expect more from people who put a realtor on an undercover police operation, armed with a gun, and let him kill and unarmed man. They got a governor who like to experiment on humans as she administers the death penalty.
The unspoken reason why the Park service doesn’t want the animals to become dependent on humans is that they will lose their fear of humans and be more likely to attack them. See, it does make sense for the Republicans to fear handouts.
When cute marketing gimmicks exert a Gresham’s law effect on political discourse.
This is the sort of crap that has to become a losing proposition every time it appears.
I really do think we need to drug-test legislators.
I know an older guy who, as a kid, had to hunt mice and rabbits. If he didn’t catch any, the family had no meat that night. He learned how to distinguish those that were diseased from those that were safe to eat. He grew up in the Ozarks.
Perhaps Republicans think it would be great if poor people lived in the woods and foraged for roots and nuts and berries while hunting small game. Those in the cities can pick through garbage or shine shoes for a quarter — like in the good old days. (Republicans really are fucking assholes!)
Sounds right to me. We’re clearly suffering the negative consequences of removing hungry people’s incentive to kill and eat rich people.
I,for one, urge the Okie GOPies to right this injustice by going out and feeding some hungry bears.
Butbutbut both parties are the same!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Paul/Sanders ’16- break the dominant paradigm!