Maybe Taylor was more clairvoyant than we all knew.
Sadly, there are thousands of people who will vote for this far-right Republican extremist, Carl Paladino, running to become governor of New York. It's stuff like this, what you will read below, that makes you wonder about the direction that some of the most extreme of the GOP seem to want to take this country.
Screw it, lets just get right to the excerpt ... roll it:
Republican candidate for governor Carl
Paladino said he would transform some New York prisons into dormitories for welfare recipients, where they would work in state-sponsored jobs, get employment training and take lessons in “personal hygiene.”
Paladino, a wealthy Buffalo real estate developer popular with many tea party activists, is competing for the Republican nomination with former U.S. Rep. Rick Lazio. The primary is Sept. 14.Paladino first described the idea in June at a meeting of The Journal News of White Plains and spoke about it again this week with The Associated Press.
Throughout his campaign, Paladino has criticized New York’s rich menu of social service benefits, which he says encourages illegal immigrants and needy people to live in the state. He has promised a 20 percent reduction in the state budget and a 10 percent income tax cut if elected.
This is the kind of negative stereotyping we're hearing and seeing from far too many people on the far right extreme of the political spectrum.
Notice how he links being a welfare recipient to all of these negative characteristics? He seems to see people on welfare as lazy, unmotivated and having poor hygiene. He wants to put their asses in "dormitories," get them "employment training" and get them "state-sponsored jobs." He wants to put them in dormitories? Hmm... I am guessing these will not be your college dormitories. I wonder ... is that similar to the way we wanted to put Japanese Americans in "resort communities" during World War II? The implications of what this man is saying is chilling and is beyond offensive.
I thought Republicans were all about government getting out of the lives of Americans? This GOPer wants to tell these Americans how they should live while putting them down as being lazy, as moochers, as dirty and so on and so forth.
Fortunately, even some Republicans are criticizing him (though I suspect not enough to spark any significant change).
How do people of conscience vote for a man of this nature? Actually, I don't want to know.
