Republican Congressman Cites Bible To Support Cutting Food Stamps - While
He Received 3.5 Million In Farm Subsidies
Stephen Fincher, a
deranged Republican congressman from Tennessee, is very angry that the federal
government is committed to preventing poor people from starving to
death:
Republican Congressman Stephen Fincher of Tennessee, who supports
cuts to the program, had his own Bible verse from the Book of Thessalonians to
quote back to Vargas: “The one who is unwilling to work shall not eat,”
he said.
The reason this is even more egregious than the usual Republican
class warfare is that Fincher himself is a poster boy for government dependency.
It's not just that he's benefited here and there from some government
help. That sort of low-level hypocrisy is almost to be expected from these
types. But Fincher has received millions - $3.2 million as of June 2010 - in
federal crop subsidies.