craziness

Just another name for nothing left to lose.

I saw this article a couple of days ago, about the millions of people living on nothing but food stamps. Nothing. but. food stamps. No other cash income.

And in the middle of the article, the reporter finds a Republican to denounce the situation, but (of course) he says this:

“This is craziness,” said Representative John Linder, a Georgia Republican who is the ranking minority member of a House panel on welfare policy. “We’re at risk of creating an entire class of people, a subset of people, just comfortable getting by living off the government.”

Mr. Linder added: “You don’t improve the economy by paying people to sit around and not work. You improve the economy by lowering taxes” so small businesses will create more jobs.

They literally say that about everything. But... tax cuts would help people with no other cash income. What... eventually? How about groceries this week?