Monday, July 28, 2008

Hate crime at UU church

First, no sense can be made of hatred like that displayed at the church shooting in Knoxville, but the apparent logic of this Jim Adkisson is so particularly twisted it needs to be highlighted:
"It appears that what brought him to this horrible event was his lack of being able to obtain a job, his frustration over that, and his stated hatred for the liberal movement," Knoxville Police Chief Sterling Owen IV told reporters on Monday.

Authorities also discovered a letter from the state government telling Adkisson he was having his food stamps reduced or eliminated, police said.

"He did express that frustration, that the liberal movement was getting more jobs," Owen said. "And he felt like he was being kept out of the loop because of his age."
As I wrote recently, welfare reform occurred under huge conservative pressure that began during the Reagan years and culminated in welfare reform passed during the GOP-takeover Congress under Clinton.

Blaming liberals for the loss of social benefits is fucktarded.

On a quasi-related note, Bushonomics predict a record federal deficit this year: $490B, in part due to the stimulus package passed by the Democratic Congress.