Former Sen. Rick Santorum (R-PA) isn’t sure Republicans care as much about the poor as Democrats do because he doesn’t hear them talking about poverty as much.
“Well people ask me if Republicans care as much about the poor as Democrats do. I’m not sure we do,” Santorum said Monday. “I’m not sure we do and the reason I’m not sure we do is because I don’t hear us talking about them very often and if you really cared you’d talk about the problems they had.”
Santorum’s comments come as Democrats continue to push for a minimum wage increase and Republicans argue that such a hike would actually kill jobs rather than create them and help the poorest Americans. Democrats plan to hold a vote on raising the minimum wage in the Senate on Wednesday.
A minimum wage hike will hurt more people than it helps. Let’s address poverty and unemployment with real solutions. http://t.co/LGaR7q9mWY
— Speaker John Boehner (@SpeakerBoehner) April 30, 2014
Santorum’s comments also fall in line with his approach among potential presidential candidates. Santorum, who ran for president in 2012, has tried to style himself as the Republican candidate who can best relate to blue-collar Americans.
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Talk about one of your all-time “NO SHIT” statements.
Wow. If this isn’t a ‘ya thinh?’ moment, I don’t know what is.
Thanks, Captain Obvious!
Really, Frothy? What makes you say that?
Was it the “Let them Die” shouts at the Wingnut debates? Or was it Rand’s “gimme, gimme, gimme.” moochers comments? Or was Craven Bundy’s ‘poor blacks would be better off as slaves’ comments? Or, maybe it’s that the GOP wants to cut off welfare, medicaid, and other social services for poor people? (including those that have served the nation.) How about Paul Ryan’s comments on “lazy, inner city men”?
“Real solutions.” By which TweetyBoner means, of course, tax cuts for rich people and gutting out wage, hour, safety, and environmental regulations.
I mean, honestly, isn’t the real problem that employers are forced to pay employees anything? Isn’t the real solution relaxing the iron grip of government under guise of preventing so-called “involuntary servitude?”
It is these strange and incongruous moments of introspection that make Santorum all the more bizarre - and frankly - a bit scary … along with the frequent far away look in his eyes !!!