Drudge Thinks George Washington is Crying
31 March 2009 11:40 am by Taylor Marsh
You’d think the guy would be more concerned about the GOP’s alternative budget. But no. Evidently, SAMHSA’s new “Getting Through Tough Economic Times” has Drudge in a tizzy, after breaking the news first, of course.
Stressed out by the economy? The U.S. government is offering an online emotional rescue kit.
The “Getting Through Tough Economic Times” guide at www.samhsa.gov/economy/ is meant to help people identify any serious health concerns related to financial worries, develop coping skills and find help, the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration said on Tuesday…. (SAMHSA site)
“Nanny State!”, Drudge squeals. As if financial crisis or job loss in a family or a life couldn’t cause someone to collapse or feel totally overwhelmed. That reality has some conservatives crying “wussy.”
Back when I was working the relationship angle for the LA Weekly, the cause for divorce over half the time was finances; today it’s believed to be the number one cause. Back then (and before) I was doing more interviews of couples and singles (among others) than just about anyone around. I wrote two books (though I couldn’t get them published) on the subject of relationships, because I had the anecdotal proof to illustrate how to keep a relationship, and what causes its collapse. It’s either finances or intimacy issues, with the economics of love the leader.
Financial troubles are no laughing matter.
The conservative “pick yourself up by your own bootstrap” model is no prescription, believe me.
The financial crisis we’re dealing with is real. How that impacts families is too. But the toll it takes on marriages and relationships can be even more devastating. Some never recover, no matter the love between the couples. It takes tools to make it through.
Nothing is more important than keeping families and relationships whole and communicative during a financial crisis that is taking 401Ks out, jobs out, homes gone, as well as futures lost. That conservatives don’t understand the seriousness of the crisis, as well as the personal ramifications, is just another tell on the non-existence of “compassionate” conservatism.
It also reveals the tone deaf nature of conservatives, who seem to always neglect the human element in any crisis we face.
TM NOTE: If you have a story to share about finances taking a toll on your relationship or family, send it our way.
Just another of many examples that proves Drudge and his fellow right-wingers just don’t get it. Like the fact that they only care about a child upon conception or while in the womb – once the baby is delivered, the GOP could not care less if the child receives health care, a quality education, job training, etc.
I guess the GOP will be shocked and surprised too when the crime rate spikes as a result of the hard times so many face.
You’re absolutely correct, c chicago. They don’t get it at all.
My dad always said GOP stood for “Greed Over People.” I think he may have been right. The conservatives just don’t have the answers and really never did because they took out the human side of life.
I’ll have the video up later, but Clinton was talking today about the “human side” of the issues today, as she focused on Iran.
On the financial crisis, the human side is the biggest part of it.
I really believe that talk radio has pushed these type of attitudes and a part of a whole generation has been fed their crap for 25 years. All these jackasses talk about is pulling people up by their bootstraps. The only thing Limbaugh knows about bootstraps is he can’t see his.
Some in the right seem to think that anyone not like them is some sort of touchy-feely wuss. The idea of a safety net is foreign to many of them. I understand Drudge since he probably makes millions off his website, but for the life of me I’ll never understand the low income people who buy into that garbage.
Speaking of the GOP’s alternative budget, isn’t it supposed to be laid out in full “detail” today … ?
Speaking of the GOP’s alternative budget, isn’t it supposed to be laid out in full “detail” today … ?
I think they are in contact with the Bizarro world in the Superman comics. Any budget that John Boehner and company come up with would have to fit in perfectly in a Bizarro world. It will be interesting to see how the top tax rate of 25% they propose (somewhere in the neighborhood of a trillion dollars of lower revenue) would fit into a budget. They probably will just assume the economy would grow at a ridiculously high rate.
Because remember, tax cuts are the solution to everything.
DaveB says:
31 March 2009 at 4:00 pm
Don’t forget banning abortion, that’s another cornerstone for them.
I’m looking forward to a post about what Netanyahu had to say today.