Republicans: Trillions Could Be Cut from Budget if We Eliminate Empathy

[GoldStandard]

Sorry but taxing and spending other people's money on your social improvement schemes is not a display of "empathy".

Quote from RobtF:

Bold new Republican plan:

WASHINGTON: Speaking on behalf of congressional Republicans, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA) said today that trillions could be cut from the Federal budget if Congress can agree to eliminate empathy.

“The current budget is bursting at the seams with pet projects that reek of empathy,” Rep. Cantor said. “As a nation, we can no longer afford to spend money on people’s basic survival needs like a bunch of drunken sailors.”

Rep. Cantor noted that “the word ‘empathy’ comes from the Greek word ‘pathos,’ meaning ‘pathetic’ – and that’s exactly what helping people is: pathetic.”

“We Americans should get out of the habit of using Greek words,” he added. “Look where it’s gotten the Greeks – straight into bankruptcy.”

Once congressional Republicans eliminate such empathy-laden budget items as lunches for poor children, medicine for the indigent and oxygen for seniors, Rep. Cantor said, “We can move from cutting empathy to cutting humanity.”

With humanity removed from the budget, he said, “That’s where the real savings come in.”

By eliminating the food, medicine and oxygen necessary to sustain human life, “We will reduce the single biggest drain on the U.S. economy: people.”

Ending on an optimistic note, Rep. Cantor said that by eliminating people, “by the middle of this century the United States will be successfully transformed into one big unmanned Predator drone.”

Elsewhere, presidential candidate Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn) today visited historic Monticello, which she called “the home of Jeffrey Dahmer.”

The Borowitz Report)
www.borowitzreport.com/2011/06/29/r...d-be-cut-from-budget-if-we-eliminate-empathy/

 

[clacy]

Quote from GoldStandard:

Sorry but taxing and spending other people's money on your social improvement schemes is not a display of "empathy".

Exactly. Libs love to bash someone like Bachmann, who is the epitome of empathy (foster parent to 23 children). While they believe that "empathy" means taking money from those that are talented enough to earn more than average, and distribute it to those who are not.

 

[Hombre]

Quote from logic_man:

Government is a jobs program for white losers with Master's degrees in Political Science, Sociology, Social Work, Education and Public Policy, who go work in the various bureaucracies managing state and federal programs. Let those morally-preening douchebags get some real skills and do real work and pay some taxes that don't just get recycled and come back to them as paychecks, then come back to me and talk about "empathy".

You should know that the vast majority of black professionals work for government and not for a public sector. That is why IMO the government is soo badly run.

 

[Betapeg]

Quote from Hombre:

You should know that the vast majority of black professionals work for government and not for a public sector. That is why IMO the government is soo badly run.

This takes the cake in radical libertarian racist idiocy. You should be ashamed of yourself.

 

[bullmarket79]

i like bachmann, but doesnt her family get over $200,000 pr yr in farm subsidies? There trying to ratchet the amount down from 750k pr yr to 250k pr yr maximum,,to many corporate farms

 

[failed_trad3r]

Quote from Betapeg:

Not all, but a huge sum are. Sadly, the proportion is high too, compared to Europe or developed Asian countries. America's average man or woman is totally oblivious to reality or basic common knowledge. You have to be alarmed when half the country believes that an imaginary old guy in the sky created the earth magically in 6 days.

the same people who vote republican. can you imagine this? I shudder the thought of there not being any democrat, if they were gone, America will soon be like the movie idiosyncracy.:eek:

 

[bone]

Quote from failed_trad3r:

the same people who vote republican. can you imagine this? I shudder the thought of there not being any democrat, if they were gone, America will soon be like the movie idiosyncracy.:eek:

You are correct. Chicago and Cook County is a utopia for your political model of perfection. Complete domination by the Democratic Party for 200 years. Please display these metrics as the shining light. Crime. Unemployment. Quality of life. Education. Anything you want to post.

 

[IanMacQuaide]

Quote from logic_man:

...Unlike those who supported FDR and even LBJ, we've now got actual empirical data to support the fact that entitlements and collectivism and all of the other facets of Leftist ideology are simply unsustainable....

Even Math Professors can't do the basic math required to figure out just how fast a Union Retirement Plan will go broke.
Amazing.

I once saw an example of the FDNY's retirement stats for 1 Lt., retiring at the age of 59 after 28 yrs of service.
I sure wish the Firefighters a happy retirement for doing a good job, but at $100K a yr retirement salary, and veritably ALL of their Med. Ins. provided for free, it takes 130 working Firefighters to support 1 retired Fire Lt.
:eek:

 

[NKNY]

Quote from Locutus:

a) I'm not an American
b) I think a lot of people including (maybe especially) Americans are idiots (look at that scatasomething guy)
c) It doesn't surprise me that one of your politicians might be an idiot too, to appeal to the voters. You have Michelle Bachman, Sarah Palin and so forth, I certainly am not surprised every time they say something retarded. You have well-watched shows like Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh and O'Reilly.

How the hell is it funny that I am surprised? There is nothing funny about it.

To me, it's scary that I thought it could be real. Of course it is a little bit over the top, so I did a google after I posted that and figured it wasn't real but it's not funny at all that this wasn't 100% obvious (maybe 50% or so).

hahaha yeah and you're not an idiot... you just labeled yourself a leftest... idiot...

 

[clacy]

Quote from bullmarket79:

i like bachmann, but doesnt her family get over $200,000 pr yr in farm subsidies? There trying to ratchet the amount down from 750k pr yr to 250k pr yr maximum,,to many corporate farms

I don't know the exact figures, but it's all legal. This is the way our system is set up currently so of course they take their subsidies.

But how is it any different than the fact that 100% of the Dems and liberals that advocate radical tax increases ALWAYS do anything they can to minimize their tax liability.