Republicans disdainful of the unemployed

[Valles]

If one accepts the premise that hard work and moral rectitude inevitably overcome any, or even most degrees of innately disadvantaged starting positions, then systematic assistance to the poor or the out of work becomes unnecessary, and, for those who confuse their own bottom line with the country's, even evil.

Unfortunately, this line of reasoning rests on a premise which is demonstrably untrue, and produces behavior I have to work very hard to characterize as anything but monstrously selfish.
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"V, did you do something foolish?"
"Yes, and it was glorious."