On this day in 1851, The NY TIMES was founded, and through thick and thin, it has been the best friend of educated people, including scholars of all kinds and, particularly, of historians!
This author could NOT have published his book on the New Deal 32 years ago without the resources of the NY TIMES, the newspaper of record!
So on this 162nd Anniversary, let all of us salute the NY TIMES, for publishing “All The News That’s Fit To Print”!
The Republican Party, particularly in the House of Representatives, has declared war on the Food Stamp program, pushing for a vote to cut about $40 billion from the program, in a vote due later this week.
This cut would come over ten years, and would deny basic food sustenance to poor people, with 76 percent of the beneficiaries being children, senior citizens, the disabled, and war veterans.
As Michele Bachmann said, if one does not work, one does not eat! Isn’t that the “Christian” thing to do? Of course, Jesus Christ would approve, or would he? Anyone sane and moral and ethical knows the answer!
And particularly, when Bachmann and her husband gain federal support for their program to help gays become straight, one of the biggest examples of corruption imaginable!
Meanwhile, corporations get supported by government, and the elite wealthy continue to become wealthier, at the expense of everyone else!
How could anyone with a heart, a sense of decency, vote for these Scrooge (Charles Dickens novel) like characters who do not give a damn about those less fortunate, whether for food stamps or health care or anything that makes lives easier for those who have miserable lives through no fault of their own?