Greed is good, need is shameful

Republicans make it pretty evident that they opposes providing a pittance in nutritional assistance to the truly needy. They emphasizes the need for self-reliance and responsibility. I wonder, would they favor getting rid of multi-billion dollar, taxpayer-funded assistance to agribusiness? How about a reduction, if not the outright elimination of hundreds of billions of dollars in annual tax breaks to the big oil companies? Or the elimination of grotesquely unfair tax loopholes enjoyed by various other billionaires? Or doing away with the very lucrative incentives given large corporations to move American jobs overseas Republicans and their Blue Dog pals only consider poor people as sponges, never mind that the poor receive a tiny amount in subsidies, compared to the enormous gifts bestowed upon American plutocrats through US taxation policy. That's the standard Republican attitude: use government as an instrument to give massively to those who already have much, and take away as much as possible from those who are struggling to survive. http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/green/news/2013/03/12/56240/meet-the-new-oil-tax-breaks-same-as-the-old-oil-tax-breaks/