Let 'Em Die: TEApublican Quotes Bible To Justify Letting Poor Starve To Death - Americans Against the Tea Party

Let 'Em Die: TEApublican Quotes Bible To Justify Letting Poor Starve To Death - Americans Against the Tea Party

In a disgusting display, even by TEApublican standards, Stephen Fincher (R-TN) quoted the “Book of Thessalonians” to justify letting the poor starve. Fincher smugly stated on the House floor:

The one who is unwilling to work shall not eat.

Of course, it’s a well-known attribute of conservatives to see things in black and white while often missing more nuanced aspects of real life. In Fincher’s warped mind, people that need help are just lazy moochers who should simply pull themselves up by their bootstraps, even though, as most liberals know, many of these people don’t even have boots–or functioning feet in the context of this analogy–for that matter.