Pest Control
by digby
Sometimes it scares me to think of what it must be like inside the heads of people who think like this. On some level the world must be a very scary place:
Are Democrats a party of parasites who give handouts to people who don’t work, by taxing those who do? That’s what farmer Donald Jungerman claimed when he put up a trailer along a freeway in Missouri with the words:
Are you a Producer or Parasite
Democrats – Party of ParasitesWell, it turns out that Jungerman himself got government handouts, to the tune of over $1 million!
After a story about Jungerman’s trailer ran in Sunday’s Star, however, some readers called him a hypocrite for criticizing others for getting government help while taking government subsidies paid for by taxpayers. Jungerman said he put up the sign to protest people who pay no taxes, but, “Always have their hand out for whatever the government will give them” in social programs. Crop subsidies are different, he said. When crop prices dip below a certain point, the federal government makes up the difference with a subsidy payment.
Of course. It’s completely different for taxpayers to give one man a million dollars in subsidies when he can’t make a profit than it is to give poor children’s parents food stamps so they can buy the food this fellow produces and give him even more money. I don’t know how these Democratic parasites can live with themselves.
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