Easter Greetings from Supply Side Jesus

Mega christ-y pastor Rick Warren spent the weekend explaining to us many mere mortals that the poor were a result of "our" need for instant gratification and general lazy un-god like spending habits.
As usual, Mr. Pierce at Esquire parts the very red sea of stupid quite cleanly.......

"The fact is that "welfare reform" gave everybody permission not to care about poverty anymore. It gave preening gombeens like Rick Santorum a chance to talk about "character" and "hope." It gave the zombie-eyed granny-starver Paul Ryan a chance to mouth off about the law's "unprecedented success," although I'm not sure if he's ever explained fully how hard the culture of dependency was on him when he was going through his teenage years on Social Security survivor's benefits. It gave the political system generally, and at every level, a chance to think about anything else. It was positioned as a unalloyed triumph. It had solved poverty. And then, of course, the economy went bad."

Read more: http://www.esquire.com/blogs/politics/welfare-reform-revisited-7949859#ixzz1raTU63xN

Let them make bricks without straw........or...whose up for some cake!