Hey, it’s catchy. And if Diamond Newt Gingrich has anything to do with it, that’s what “really poor children” will be doing. You see, those kids, they simply have no work ethic, no respect for the value of the dollar. Now, rich kids, they know the value of the dollar. And if they don’t, well, fuck, they’re rich, right? I mean, am I right or am I right?
So far, the Newtman hasn’t explained the cutoff point for “really poor,” but I’m guessing that it’s going to translate into something like “probably not white,” because Newt, like a lot of Republicans, has just had it about up to here with those damn black poor people who, you know, just don’t know the value of the dollar. Like Florida Gov. Rick Scott, who’s signed legislation to force welfare recipients to undergo drug testing, and like South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley, who wants drug testing for unemployment insurance, because she estimates that half of the unemployed are snorting, toking, or shooting their way to paradise on the public’s dime.
Even worse than drug abuse and just plain lollygagging, of course, is voting, and the Republican Party is definitely working to put a stop to that. Ari Berman at Rolling Stone sums up most (or at least some) of the major abuses Republican eager beavers at the state level have come up with, helped immensely by a totally not results-oriented Supreme Court decision that said it was okay for Indiana to pass legislation directed against electoral fraud despite literally zero evidence of the sort of fraud the law was (supposedly) intended to defend against. Hey, you can’t be too careful! And if some black poor schmuck who wanted to vote is turned away, hey, that’s the price we have to pay if we want to be free! What are you, Jack, some sort of Kenyan-born anti-colonialist scum?
