Did You Know - Republican View

Republicans have become the party supporting "corporatism" - a nation run by big business. All of the problems confronted by the country, under this view, are the result of poor functioning by the worker class. To wit, from the April 2007 issue of Playboy...

From a report produced by the Republican-controlled Missouri legislature's committee on immigration: "The lack of a traditional work ethic combined with the effects of 30 years of abortion and expanding liberal social welfare policies have produced a shortage of workers and a lack of incentive for those who can work."

I have found such proclamations interesting, as this is not the first statement of this sort I've read. For one thing, do the legislators somehow excuse themselves from this damnation? Are they somehow NOT the product of our liberal society? Is it that they DO have a work ethic, and thus are qualified to damn so many others? I am intrigued as to the evidence they might have in condemning everyone who is not them.

And also, what do they propose to do with the poor, the infirm, the handicapped, the mentally challenged people, and the unwanted infants left in the streets, if they will not provide welfare programs for them? Let them die? Send a street cleaning crew around once a week to pick up the bodies?

Interesting people, the legislators. They live in their own little world.