Well, I think they just convince themselves that *these* poor people are not righteous or something.Or, in the case of the twatwaffle from AFP that Chris Hayes ripped into yesterday, balancing budgets and fighting fraud. I love Chris Hayes...the only problem is sometimes he gets so upset he sputters. Maybe he can borrow some of Olbermann's power from Stephen Colbert. Msbelle, if it wasn't clear before, I totally think you're right. Everyone should be pissed off about that. But there are so many things all the time!

I really truly don't understand how the people who seem to despise the poor and the sick are always the ones loudly proclaiming themselves Christians. Isn't there any cognitive dissonance going on there at all? How do they reconcile the red letters in the gospels with their attitudes?

Two bright spots:
1. That Colbert quote
2. The pope. (I was going to elaborate, but really, just Pope Francis.)

My rage against congress is all consuming this morning.

I have emailed and made my calls. Fat lot of good it will do me.

I do have roller derby photos from my last bout, though. Which are more than slightly amusing.

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My rage against congress is all consuming this morning.

AGREED.

I appreciate that my reps are all people whose world view overlaps with mine.

Also, I am pro-elephant.

I really truly don't understand how the people who seem to despise the poor and the sick are always the ones loudly proclaiming themselves Christians. Isn't there any cognitive dissonance going on there at all?

I really want Jesus to punch them in the face.

Which proves I don't know a lot about Christianity.

Maybe next time Jesus overturns some tables, He will pick them up and use them as clue-by-fours and beat some sense into people.

Maybe next time Jesus overturns some tables, He will pick them up and use them as clue-by-fours and beat some sense into people.

I was just about to say, he's probably be okay with throwing some tables and yelling at them.

My unemployment benefits needed to be extended (yes, it's been that long...), so the sequester cut came online. The letter came with a form for me to ask for a hardship reason they shouldn't, but I'm having a hard time justifying asking.

(Like "I have two needy cats to support!" But more like "I'm maxed out on my credit card, and the cut amount means that my benefits barely cover my mortgage and health insurance!")

I don't really expect action anger from the working poor, I expect it from the middle, from my over-estimation of decent people.

ION - I am doing invoices most of the day because all of a sudden I have like 80 in my queue. I have done 12 thus far. Each invoice requires referencing spreadsheets for WO #s and equipment verification and often times, looking through another area of the financial software for PO#s, because old ones close and new ones open on a regular. 12 invoices in almost 3 hours. kill me. My stack of - cannot find the PO, no more money in the PO, or cannot match up equipment is also 12, so those are issues that will take even longer to resolve and involve me calling other people. WAH.

ok, back to it.

My unemployment benefits needed to be extended (yes, it's been that long...), so the sequester cut came online.

That makes sense. Since your benefits started pre-sequester, they didn't get cut at the time the sequester happened; they got cut when you needed to extend them. Did I get that right?

"I'm maxed out on my credit card, and the cut amount means that my benefits barely cover my mortgage and health insurance!"

God, tell me about it. I am so glad we refinanced the house right before I lost my job. Every little bit helps.