Jon Chait at NYMag finds McArgleBargle’s argument indefensible, because “Subsidizing Farmers But Not the Poor Still Evil“:
House Republicans are fighting to impose a $40 billion cut to the food-stamp program while also fighting to lock farm subsidies in place at a higher level than Democrats want. The combination of positions strikes me as indefensible. After all, farmers earn more than the average American, and there’s no rationale for handing government money to somebody just because they own a farm as opposed to a convenience store or a hot-dog stand.
Megan McArdle stands up to say the Republican position is perfectly defensible. McArdle doesn’t like farm subsidies but is even more outraged at disparagement of Republican fiscal priorities, urging, “It seems worth trying to answer the question, rather than merely marinating in our own moral and logical superiority.” The Republicans have a perfectly defensible basis for cutting benefits for poor people but giving them to farmers, she explains — reciprocity:
Here’s one reason Republicans might support farm subsidies, but not food stamps: the sense that you have to do something to get them… They’re not being given money just for breathing.
Actually, that’s not true. The Department of Agriculture does hand out money to people to do nothing. So, yes, they are being given money just for breathing. In fact, breathing is optional — millions of dollars in farm subsidies go to farmers who are dead. This underscores the fact that farm subsidies are a reward for people who own farmland, which they may well have inherited….
Bill “Always Wrong” Kristol better look to his laurels, because McMegan shows real determination to assume his Wingnut Wurlitzer crown for insistent plausibility at a 180-degree angle from the truth.
PurpleGirl
Millions, if not billions, go to agribusinesses which own farmland. Can we say that they breathe?
Comrade Luke
Borrowing from the article, can we just call her Megan “Actually, That’s Not True” McArdle?
Alex
http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/359534/revealed-house-gops-debt-ceiling-plan-jonathan-strong
The House GOP is preparing their debt ceiling bill. I miss the days of joking about ransom notes.
Elizabelle
Not more McMegan! Aargh.
(Seriously. It’s like talking about Sarah Palin all the time. Which we don’t, although teatards project that we do.)
geg6
Geezus fuck. She really is the stupidest pundtwit out there. I guess I always knew that, what with the pink Himalayan salt and Thermomix silliness, but this really takes the cake.
NotMax
Shorter Megan: Farmers (ostensibly) grow stuff suitable to be put into her super deluxe kitchen appliances.
raven
who cares
Just One More Canuck
GOP still evil, McMegan still wrong
Sun still rises in east
Baud
@raven:
Assuming you’re talking about McMegan and not the food stamp cuts, yep.
raven
@Baud: ding
Mino
Farm subsidies historically have been price supports and backdoor food stamps, of a sort. A balancing act to keep food prices in bounds and make exports attractive. So there is a logical connection between the two–or there used to be. Now that commodities are the hot new toy for hedgies, all bets are off.
But she is stupid as a brick not to even wiki before writing her piece. Jesus.
danielx
Goddamn but that’s some logic you can get your teeth into, from the world’s #1 purveyor of machine-produced bechamel sauce. Every time I see one of these McMegan gems, I know that somewhere along the line I missed my calling; if I had a strong enough stomach, the right connections and no moral qualms whatever I too could be paid six figures for producing complete horseshit for the edification of “reasonable Republicans”, whateverthehell that means these days…not much, since “reasonable Republicans” – like, say, David Brooks – have been encouraging and enabling the insane mean crazy portion of the electorate for the last forty fucking years.
But this evening the Wizard of Oz is playing with narrative commentary by the daughter unit, the humongous stockpot of chicken and sausage gumbo is simmering on the stove, and the Chianti Classico Reserva is excellent. Sufficient to the day is the evil thereof, so let us all enjoy what we can.
Also, too – Andrew Breitbart is still dead. In these parlous times, one must seek whatever little consolations life affords.
jl
McArdle is all over the map in that post. Starts with a statement of her libertarian principles, and ends with endorsement of a new CCC and WPA?
I think Kristol is more coherent, and also more wrong and more evil than McArdle.
Kristol has lead the GOP on a crazy death march for decades, and caused a great deal of social and political dysfunction and suffering in the meantime. Entertaining incoherence is preferable. My faint praise for McArdle.
Kay
This is a farm subsidies search site.
One can search each county in any state and see which individual or (usually) legal entity gets what subsidy.
Chris
@danielx:
Really puts into perspective that complaint about people being “given money for doing nothing.”
Kind of boggles your mind to compare the salary of the immigrants growing our food with the salary of those fucking blowhards who’ve never produced anything of value in their entire lives.
Ah, well. ::crosses self:: Blessed be the Market, the Righteous Judge.
jl
@Kay: Thanks. Interesting site with great info.
WereBear
Damn kids and elderly and disabled! Sitting around breathing.
That’s 76% of SNAP recipients, I just saw it on Chris Hayes.
cleek
the US govt subsidizes tobacco.
$1.4 million in my county, alone (since 2000). a rural county of 64,000 people.
SatanicPanic
I can’t wait for weed farmers in Washington and Colorado to start asking for subsidies
Davis X. Machina
@Chris:
….as was said three thousand years ago, so still it must be said “the judgments of the Market are true and righteous altogether.”
jl
@efgoldman:
” would you rather be eaten by a shark or crushed by a boulder….. ”
And the U.S is so lucky to get both!
a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)
@raven: Bingo. Do I get a prize?
raven
@a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q): Look inside for your prize grasshopper. . .
srv
I wonder how many of those dead farmers vote too.
Goblue72
All you need to know about McCardle is: 1. She had a crappy summer job canvassing at PIRG which left her permanently angry at liberals and 2. dispute growing up rich in MANHATTAN, going to an Ivy League school and an MBA from U Chicago, she STILL couldn’t get a real job and had to go on Wingnut Welfare.
Just One More Canuck
@efgoldman: Sharknado
raven
Of course the cool prizes have been replaced stupid little paper games!
raven
@Goblue72: Why does anyone need to know that? I see all these fucking discussions about her and “Sully” and I’ve never read either one.
jl
@Just One More Canuck: Josh Marshall is using ‘derpnado’ at TPM. I wonder if he coined that?
jl
Raven, who (apparently said he) cares, is regulatin’.
Goblue72
@raven: you do know 50% of this blog is snarking on pundits and other bloggers?
Davis X. Machina
@jl: In the eastern hemisphere, they’re called ‘derpnamis’
raven
@Goblue72: Sheeeeeet. . .
beltane
@Chris: McArdle really likes to flaunt her privileged place in society by being so ostentatiously stupid and lazy. The fact that this dimwitted, morally bankrupt, and work-averse woman has been given a lifelong seat on the gravy train is proof that this country has degenerated into a parody of its former self.
jl
@Goblue72: Derpicanes and Derptoons. We are deluged with derptasters.
Citizen_X
New tagline!
cckids
@danielx:
Your priorities are in order. And I like the way you think.
Sloegin
Just because I can never see this quote enough…
“Major Major’s father was a sober God-fearing man whose idea of a good joke was to lie about his age. He was a longlimbed farmer, a God-fearing, freedom-loving, law-abiding rugged individualist who held that federal aid to anyone but farmers was creeping socialism. He advocated thrift and hard work and disapproved of loose women who turned him down. His specialty was alfalfa, and he made a good thing out of not growing any. The government paid him well for every bushel of alfalfa he did not grow. The more alfalfa he did not grow, the more money the government gave him, and he spent every penny he didn’t earn on new land to increase the amount of alfalfa he did not produce. Major Major’s father worked without rest at not growing alfalfa. On long winter evenings he remained indoors and did not mend harness, and he sprang out of bed at the crack of noon every day just to make certain that the chores would not be done. He invested in land wisely and soon was not growing more alfalfa than any other man in the county. Neighbors sought him out for advice on all subjects, for he had made much money and was therefore wise. “As ye sow, so shall ye reap,” he counseled one and all, and everyone said, “Amen.”
Maybe they should add a job requirement to farm aid.
Citizen_X
@jl:
Yes, he helped lead us into the Iraq war, so there is that. But, arguably, he fatally sabotaged the McCain campaign by promoting Palin, which saved us from another three wars or so.
I try to see the good in people.
celticdragonchick
I wonder when McMegan gets walloped with that 2X4 if she will learn “how very effective violence can be when it’s applied in a firm, pre-emptive manner.”
http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Megan_McArdle
raven
@Sloegin: help him
danielx
@efgoldman:
It’s true – I’m sure it would have tasted ever so much better If I’d used the right accessories.
No, actually it was wonderful just the way it was.
The Dangerman
@Alex:
The House will pass a CR and the government shutdown this time will be averted (or it will be very, very short if there’s a process delay).
The debt limit fight will basically be to the death and will be ugly on a scale that makes Summer 2011 look like a picnic. We might still be fighting it well past Thanksgiving.
jl
@Citizen_X:Back in the 90s Kristol also persuaded the GOP to oppose any healthcare reform at all because it would eliminate a nice wedge and resentment issue for election politics. Also would distract the GOP from drumming up pretexts for foreign wars, which favored the GOP.
So, that’s a little something to put on the other side of the scale.
But, he has led the GOP down its dead end road to a long despaeate twilight death struggle. So, I guess some long run good.
The corporate GOP would have done much better by pretending to go along and watering things down even more. They could have played out the wedge issues longer, calibrated the misery wedge more carefully. if things keep going this way, the party will be narrowed down to crazy people.
If this country can pass some good mental health reform, soon they will all be in for observation, at one time or another.
celticdragonchick
@The Dangerman:
Assuming that the capitals of the world have not been burned down and we are all being chased by the biker gangs from the Road Warrior.
That appears to be the desired outcome for over half of the GOP voting base.
srv
@raven: Well, now you know how all the DFH’s here feel about this Hamshter woman. Pot. Kettle.
@Goblue72: You do know that she insists it was her little obscure blog on economics when she couldn’t get a real jerb that got noticed and into the media circuit?
Just the other day she was saying how she doesn’t get anything from the Koch’s, but her husband might (she’s not sure, must not be bedtime conversation), but he of course works for Reason makes all sorts of money selling fruits and vegetables or something and not big welfare checks from the Galts.
So not only is she stoopid, she’s too stupid to be making any money off the full-time fluffing.
eemom
@Sloegin:
Just recently started re-reading that book, which is indeed a treasure trove of passages like that.
Goblue72
@The Dangerman: I fully expect the debt ceiling to be raised. It will be last minute. The Teabaggers will threaten to take everyone to the Castro to teabag them. The big money boys will scream bloody murder about not screwing with the capital markets. And Boehner will cobble enough votes, make nice with Nancy and get it done at the 11th hour.
Nothing is getting done in DC. Its all status quo kabuki until the 2014 elections.
mclaren
If McArdle ever decides to write about physics, the universe may end, because if she writes something correct about basic physics, like “The gravitational constant is 9.8 kg-meters/sec^2,” a singularity may open up in spacetime.
I’d still tap that ass, though. Even though she’s evil and stupid.
mclaren
@celticdragonchick:
No such luck. It’d just double down on McArdle’s already severe brain damage.
SFAW
@efgoldman:
I need to have the Supremes declare that Soylent Green is corporations!
Or at least certain corporations and their “leaders.”
Like AIG and Moshe Benmosche, or JP Morgan and Jamie Dimon, or Goldman Sachs and Lloyd Blankfein, or …
Goblue72
@srv: little Jane Galt was never very bright was she?
beltane
@mclaren: The world would be a better place if she made her living by having her ass tapped. Alas, honest work of any sort does not suit her.
srv
Boy, these emails from Mr. Blackwell at Conservative Intel:
What, are they paying foreigners 2 cents a call?
jl
@Sloegin: I think there are only alfalfa seed crop subsidies. IIRC from my family’s alfalfa growing days.
SFAW
@mclaren:
You need to get out more.
Although, I have to confess, her near-total makeover certainly was an improvement. Amazing what a pink-Himalayan-salt exfoliation will do, I guess.
ETA: Yes, I know – each to his/her own. Who am I to judge?
SFAW
@Goblue72:
You say that as if it were not a permanent condition.
The Dangerman
@Goblue72:
Therein lies the problem; there really isn’t a last minute. There are lots of ways to stretch things out without a default…
…and there surely won’t be a default and the DL will go up. Getting there, however, should be WWE cage match ugly.
burnspbesq
This is interesting: new poli-sci research suggests that legislators generally think their constituents are way farther right than they actually are.
http://www.democracyjournal.org/arguments/2013/09/politicians-think-american-voters-are-more-conservative-than-they-really-are.php
H/t Tomasky, hockey assist DeLong.
jl
Huh, I typed something that got me spam flagged.
Villago Delenda Est
What food stamps DO is actually drive economic activity that would otherwise not take place.
Which is actually good for farmers. Except those who are parasite assholes like those shitstain reps from Tennessee and North Dakota.
Keith P
It’s about reciprocity for sure, but it’s about votes. Farmers are “from the heartland”…red state real ‘Merka, while the poor are liberal city-dwellers. Feed the GOP voters while hoping the poor will be too hunger-weak to go out and vote.
Chris
@Sloegin:
Fucking LOL! Where’s that from? That’s the best character description I’ve read since Dr. Evil in the father/son therapy session.
gbear
@srv:
Every time she brings up Kochs, her husband claims he has a bit of a headache.
SFAW
@burnspbesq:
It’s been clear for awhile that self-described non-liberals actually hold positions more liberal that their label would otherwise suggest.
I think that’s due, in part, to the demonization of the word Lllllliberal by Reagan, Bush Sr., and the rest of those evil bastards. But I imagine there are other contributory factors as well.
Villago Delenda Est
@celticdragonchick:
Please.
Not a 2×4.
A clue by four. Let’s have some gentility to the beating of McMegan that is sorely needed.
El Cid
If there’s one subject Megan McAddled knows about, it’s hard work, and to create value from one’s productivity.
Mnemosyne (iPhone)
@burnspbesq:
Not surprised since AstroTurf groups spend a lot of time and money making calls and writing letters. Add in the freelance teabaggers and you have a tsunami of right-wing insanity coming over the transom every single day.
Citizen_X
@burnspbesq: Wow. Center-right nation, now and forevermore!
Mike in NC
@SFAW:Do you mean that fugly McMegan had a wingnut welfare funded makeover, to fix the ratty hair and Coke bottle eyeglasses? Still a wingnut skank by any reasonable metric.
mclaren
@Chris:
That, my friend, is a passage from Joseph Heller’s immortal Catch-22.
Highly recommended. And (sadly) even more relevant today than it was in 1956, when it was written.
SFAW
@Mike in NC:
Well, the old hair and glasses didn’t do her any favors, certainly. Her new look is (to my eyes, at least) significantly better. But if I were forced to pick a stupid/crazy wingnut, and could ignore the crazy shit issuing from her mouth, I think Bachmann is better looking.
Although, that may be because I’m an old fart, and my braim cells is ossifying. (To test that theory, we’d probably need raven to weigh in.)
ETA: And, no, I don’t mean Marcus Bachmann.
hilts
To any NY Yankee haters out there,
The wait is over. Let the celebration begin.
Happy Schadenfreude and Happy Elimination Day!
A musical tribute to the Yankees being mathematically eliminated from the AL wildcard race
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXrJdOD5syo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljGMhDSSGFU
goblue72
now you’re making me ill
SFAW
@hilts:
I still miss Gilliard
burnspbesq
@hilts:
Somewhere in Heaven, Steve Gilliard is doing his happy dance.
burnspbesq
In case you missed it, Sarah Jarosz did a great live-in-studio set for WNYC earlier today.
http://soundcheck.wnyc.org/story/sarah-jarosz-in-studio/?utm_source=showpage&utm_media=treatment&utm_campaign=featured&utm_content=item0
The Dangerman
@hilts:
Can’t hate the Yankees.
Can hate Arod, but he’s going to have a shitty 2014.
SFAW
@burnspbesq:
I’d say something about “great minds think alike” etc., but that doesn’t explain my inclusion/presence.
FTFY, Gilly!
Meanie-meanie, tickle a person
It’s like talking about Sarah Palin all the time.
Yeah. Mooselini was fun…for a while.
Lessee how long Megan McWrong lasts…
johnny aquitard
@cckids: Beg to differ. There are no good chiantis, let alone excellent ones.
hilts
RIP to Gilliard
Two more songs for Steve and any other Yankee haters
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0s5KBt6b3zc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5bcxHlMxnSY
Congratulations to every MLB team that has advanced to the playoffs, may the best team win the World Series, and good riddance to those goddamn, motherfucking, rat bastard NY Yankees.
Svensker
I really miss TBogg. Dang.
Kay
@srv:
No, they’re just taking the money and not calling.
I can’t get over how they won’t just end it. It’s been going on forever. The huge Tea Party creation and mobilization. Ted Kennedy dies. Scott Brown is elected. They win the House. They start repealing it once a week. They lose at the SCOTUS. They lose the 2012 election. Scott Brown isn’t even there anymore! Now it’s Cruz. They think something magical will happen for the last 48 hours..
Really, they have these people whipped into a frenzy for years. At some point it’s just unconscionable, and these are their supporters.
burnspbesq
@SFAW:
I find it comforting to think of Gilliard and Molly Ivins as BFFs for all eternity, spending their time listening to the John Coltrane/Jimi Hendrix Revue.
MomSense
So tonight my 4th grader starts a conversation with “I don’t think it’s fair that we are not allowed to share snacks at school”. When I ask him why, he then told me that his new friend is part of the “backpack” program at school. Our local food bank gives food donations to the teachers of the kids on the school lunch assistance program that the teachers discreetly put in their backpacks on Friday before they go home for the weekend so they will have something to eat. His friend gets a school lunch but the problem is that my son watches him go without snack and then look sad and get sort of sleepy before lunch.
We came up with a plan because when your kid comes to you upset because he recognizes that a hungry kid is a fucking injustice, you have to do something. So we are going to buy a bunch of snacks and email my son’s teacher and ask that she discreetly make sure he has a snack every day. Not sure how she will manage this, but we are going to try.
McMegan can *)(*(*&(*^* &^*(&*(&(*I^R^# %$&^$#$## @#$%^!!!
Chris
@Meanie-meanie, tickle a person:
I really don’t think Sarah Palin ever made trains run on time.
Goblue72
@hilts: I’ve been celebrating since the Red Sox swept the Yankees in their final season series and then sewed up the AL East.
Yankee Elimination Day on day Oakland loses and Sox on track (so far) to beat Rockies and add a game to best in AL lead? Priceless.
johnny aquitard
@mclaren: Tapping McArdle’s ass? [chyme rises in throat]
SFAW
@burnspbesq:
OK.
But being a selfish bastard, I’d still rather they’d postponed the reunion for another 20 years or so.
SFAW
@johnny aquitard:
No, he meant it in the manner of a third-base coach swatting a player as he rounds third after hitting a walk-off homer.
Right, mclaren?
hilts
@Goblue72:
Things seem to shaping up well right now. I’m keeping my fingers crossed.
MikeJ
@Goblue72: And Ellsbury is back!
hilts
@burnspbesq:
Speaking of John Coltrane,
Here’s a link about Friends of the Coltrane Home, a group dedicated to preserving and restoring Coltrane’s home in Dix Hills, NY
http://thecoltranehome.org
eemom
hmmm, appears screechy psycho mclaren, who many of us presumed to be female, is just a regular old dude jerking off at his computer after all. Who’d’a thunk.
Narcissus
@Kay:
This is the point, though. frenzied people don’t think.
hilts
@Goblue72:
Just to add insult to injury, the Yankee organization royally fucked up the Mariano Rivera bobblehead giveaway day
http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/baseball/yankees/bobbleheads-rivera-bobblehead-night-article-1.1466503
fuckwit
Dare I say Rethug projection again?
McMeagan, who gets paid insane amounts of money for doing nothing of value, complains about poor people getting pittances and brradcrumbs just to keep themselves alive?
Bring on the tumbrels.
the Conster
@MomSense:
I heard about that program on CLZ. If you figure out how to manage getting snacks to every kid, I would love to contribute. I’ll send a check.
? Martin
@cleek:
Well, they’re not lazing about! They’re giving people cancer! They’re doing something!
Betsy
@danielx: a beautiful post. Thanks
MomSense
@the Conster:
Thank you. I’m going to call the woman who runs Midcoast Hunger Prevention and see if we can figure something out. Ethan Minton is a friend. His daughter and my son are good friends and I bet he would spread the word if we can put something together.
When I talked to one of the volunteers who collects the food for the backpacks he told me that peanut butter is a really good choice because it has lots of protein and calories and is filling. And that is great but then the weight of the reality that we are just trying to keep bellies less hungry and achey settles in and that is when I have to sit in my car and swear and cry.
goblue72
@MikeJ: and Red Sox nation breathes a sigh of relief. (we love ya defense Jackie Bradley Jr. but ya got a noodle for a bat)
Ash Can
@MomSense: You and your son rock the house down.
If the kids have hallway cubbies or lockers, she can have them leave their snacks in their cubbies, then retrieve them (or have a teaching assistant retrieve them) for snack time — after said teacher or assistant has discreetly left a snack in the cubby of the classmate chronically without. Or she can have the students drop off their snacks with the lunch room people, under the guise of some “safe keeping of food” excuse, with the lunchroom personnel adding the snack before delivering the whole lot to the room for snack time. At any rate, by all means talk to the teacher about this. I’m sure she and the rest of the school personnel will bend over backwards and then some to work out an optimal solution.
johnny aquitard
@Kay: Like zombies it’ll take a baseball bat to the head before they’ll cease their mindless motion and moaning.
Seriously though, the harmfulness of the teabag generation won’t be neutralized until enough of them have died off so the younger generations can amelioriate ther baleful influence on american politics.
Nothing’s gonna change them. We just have to outlast them.
Fortunately time is on our side. It just is so damn unfair and wrong in the interim, and it gives cold comfort to the many people harmed in that time frame.
gene108
@Goblue72:
I don’t.
In 2011, sequestration was offered up to get the Republicans to stop their tantrum and do their jobs.
There is nothing they can get to calm their tantrum down this time.
And, if Republicans in state governments are any indication, they do not care about the amount of pain and suffering they inflict on people.
Ash Can
@eemom: I’ve asked numerous commenters here numerous times why they concluded that mclaren was female, and never got an answer. I just assumed everyone I’d asked has pied me. :)
PurpleGirl
@SFAW: When you invoke Gilli (he of blessed memory), you must do it correctly…
F**k the F**king Yankees.
MikeJ
@goblue72:
His name is among the most fun to say in the major leagues. You simply can not say part of his name without saying the entire thing. Jackie Bradley Jr. I hope he gets it together and becomes a real part of next year’s team. I love to watch people come up from the minors and make it. He was supposed to have a hot bat, and maybe it will turn out to be true (although it never happened with Carl Crawford). At least we didn’t pay that much for him.
eemom
@Ash Can:
You are quite right to have questioned. In retrospect I don’t have the slightest idea why that was assumed, and I was certainly one of the assum-ors.
Which just shows to go you……not sure what exactly, but something sorta bad about assuming stuff.
PurpleGirl
@MomSense: You’ve got a good kid there. Compassionate and caring.
eemom
@MomSense:
Seconding the kudos to you and MomKid!
johnny aquitard
@eemom: I’ve always considered mclaren to be what those liter-rature typeses might call an unreliable narrator.
goblue72
@gene108: Obama doesn’t have to run for re-election. And after 3 years of Tea Party nonsense, I suspect the public will quickly tire of the foolishness.
eemom
@johnny aquitard:
well put.
Joey Maloney
@mclaren: “The gravitational constant is 9.8 kg-meters/sec^2,”
That’s exactly what I’d expect McArgleBargle to write, because it sounds impressive but it’s dead wrong. The gravitational constant, G, is the fudge factor added to make equations in our particular choice of units balance out. Its units are meters cubed per kilogram seconds squared.
9.8 kg m/sec^2 is the force exerted by gravity on a mass at the earth’s surface.
/pedant
SFAW
@PurpleGirl:
I understand, but if you’re going to correct me, please at least ensure that you’re correct.
1) It’s “Gilly,” not “Gilli.”
2) “Fuck the Fucking Yankees,” not some prettied-up version. please. I believe he had also used “FTFY,” but I won’t quibble in that regard, because my memory is hazy regarding that.
.
What Have the Romans Ever Done for Us?
insistent plausibility at a 180 degree angle from the truth – that’s gold!
Matt McIrvin
@goblue72: I fear they’ll let the country default for a simple reason: it’s the one way they really might stop Obamacare. They’re past all legal or political remedies by this point. But they could still stop Obamacare by destroying the United States itself.
Epicurus
“… marinating in our own moral and logical superiority…” Project much, you dope? McArdle has officially jumped the shark, and is now trolling in territory previously only explored by the Doughy Pantload himself. Please just go away, the world now knows that this woman’s ignorance and chutzpah know no limits.
TAPX486
Different target but same chutzpah . George Will is outraged that the slow heroin drip of universal medical coverage will begin in Jan. It’s terrible that public funds will be paying for that addiction.
On the other hand he has written several times about how his son, who is autistic I believe, can get around Washington on his own without a car. He uses PUBLICLY FINANCED mass transit.
I guess its ok to be addicted if you near and deal to Mr. Will
Ksmiami
@Keith P: it’s even more pernicious . In California farmers aren’t eligible for the fed hva @MomSense: I think we need a shaming program of America sort of a James Agee vision of the fact that many areas of this so called rich country are 3rd world poor and dysfunctional. If we could build a better baseline of life for people- good infrastructure/schools etc., that is a worthy goal
MomSense
Thank you everyone for your advice and encouraging comments.
I’m all for a shaming program!
My son’s teacher put me in touch with some other parents and we are going to handle the snack problem for a bunch of kids.
I’ll follow up with everyone here about ways to support your local backpack programs. Would be nice to combine that help with some writing about our experiences and maybe some shaming of the elected officials who don’t care about hungry children in their districts.