Chris Hayes summarizes what we now know from the week of news, including a glimpse into how House Republicans embrace the church after the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops sent a letter criticizing the Agricultural committee's proposed budget, inspired by Rep. Paul Ryan, for failing "a moral test" in cutting food stamp funds.
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Over the past decade, Americans watched in bafflement and rage as one institution after another – from Wall Street to Congress, the Catholic Church to corporate America, even Major League Baseball – imploded under the weight of corruption and incompetence. In the wake of the Fail Decade, Americans have historically low levels of trust in their institutions; the social contract between ordinary citizens and elites lies in tatters.
How did we get here? With "Twilight of the Elites," Christopher Hayes offers a radically novel answer. Since the 1960s, as the meritocracy elevated a more diverse group of men and women into power, they learned to embrace the accelerating inequality that had placed them near the very top. Their ascension heightened social distance and spawned a new American elite--one more prone to failure and corruption than any that came before it.
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I think the Republicans are just in shock that the church is actually lobbing for the poor, who knew that they would start following their written morality.
Republicans don't want to collect $48 billion in taxes on the wealthy over 10 years because it won't make a dent in the deficit, but want to cut $30 billion in SNAP funds over the next 10 years because that will make a dent in the deficit? Who is actually getting the entitlements?
Plato once said that refusing to participate in politics results in being governed by our inferiors, and he never met the United States Congress or any state legislature in the USA.
collect a billion here and a billion there and pretty soon it adds up to "real money" - right?
This simply reveals republican hypocracy, they appeal to the fringe religious by calling abortion an outrage, but stop at feeding a child once its born. Which is the larger moral sin? There is no morality in the republican party its an act, like a republican senator that would propose anti gay legislation then go suck C**K in a public restroom. Republican hypocracy. The poor need to work they don't need the government's help, self reliance, right? But the rich need the help of the government to grow their fortuned untaxes. Job creators, BS, wealth expanders who don't want to pay a living wage, to make sure everyone can go to the doctor, then complain that poor people do not pay their own way. They control the money and jobs like a parent giving an allowance to a child, then turning to the child and asking why it isnt buying its own groceries on the $5 a week allowance they are generously being given. Republican hypocracy. vomit
so true
Building height restrictions in D.C. is a very bad idea. Sooner or later you are going to have skyscrapers taller than the Washington Monument and the Capital building. It would totally ruin the city scape that is totally unique to D.C.