QOTD: Tea Party Senate candidate
by digby
This GOP Senate candidate from North Carolina makes Sarah Palin sound like Winston Churchill:
“We’re taking our plunder, that’s taken from us as individuals, [giving] it to the government, and the government is now keeping itself in power by giving these goodies away. The answer is the Department of Agriculture should go away at the federal level. And now 80 percent of the Farm Bill was food stamps. That enslaves people. What you want to do, it’s crazy but it’s true, teach people to fish instead of giving them fish. When you’re at the behest of somebody else, you are actually a slavery to them. That kind of charity does not make people freer.”
Yeah. Well, even slave owners understood that people need to eat.
Tim Murphy at Mother Jones points out that he’s a little bit mixed up:
Brannon is suggesting that people on food stamps are lazy, while also conflating them with a system of labor exploitation in which people were literally worked to death.
This bozo is also rambling on about freedom as if the freedom to starve is written into the constitution — or the Bible. Or something. But then, he’s obviously a total idiot. I expect he’ll win and be James Inhofe’s best friend in the Senate.
La majestueuse égalité des lois, qui interdit au riche comme au pauvre de coucher sous les ponts, de mendier dans les rues et de voler du pain.
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