Daily Caller: ‘There Should Be Humiliation and Pain in Government Assistance’
Giant wingnut via ShutterstockMan, who let the wingnuts out? Who? Who?
Earlier we had our Wingnut Jaw-Dropper of the Day, but now we have our Crazed Right Wing Social Engineering Scheme of the Day, in a blatantly racist, hallucinatory article by Brion McClanahan at the Daily Caller: ‘Damn, I just want some jam’.
For those of you who missed it, several months ago “Mr. EBT” went viral with his hit tune “My EBT.” Classic examples of Shakespearean prose from the song include this passage: “Damn, I just want some jam. Walkin’ down the aisle ’cause I’m lookin’ for the haaaamm. Wham! Where da hell da cheese at?” And who could forget this line: “I wish I could buy some weed with my EBT, but the drug dealer frontin’ me. I mean, who cares? I mean, who cares? It’s an EBT, it’s not food stamps.” Catchy and brilliant! Mr. EBT is quite the wordsmith. Of course, he would lose his street cred without his Yankees hat and leather coat. Heck, it wasn’t even his Electronic Benefit Transfer card! He “borrowed” it from his sister! And now we have Jesse Jackson telling us Barack Obama should be honored to be the “food stamp president” because food stamps pay for everything under the sun and save lives. What’s going on, America?
McClanahan has a solution to this plague of lesser races leeching off patriotic citizens like himself; he envisions a perverse right wing socialism, in which giant centralized government stores dispense generic products directly to an underclass of food stamp recipients. If that sounds bizarre and dehumanizing, that’s because it is, deliberately.
McClanahan would also take away the right to vote from anyone receiving government aid, and subject them to monthly drug testing … because in his view, these people are “slaves to the government,” who should be humiliated and made to suffer as much as possible.
Wow.
Fourth, anyone who accepts government aid would have to submit to a monthly tobacco and drug test. Food stamp recipients are, after all, wards of the state. They are slaves to the government and should be reminded of that fact. If a recipient is found to have tobacco or drugs in his system, he would be dropped from the program. People on government aid would also lose the privilege of voting. That way they couldn’t vote for greater benefits or easier terms (most of them don’t vote, but now they couldn’t). …
There should be humiliation and pain in government assistance. Every time someone accepts food stamps, they are spitting on the principles of independence, and they, not the taxpayers who fund the program, should be reminded of that fact.
