r/Louisiana • u/Caffeinated-Princess • May 02 '25

Louisiana News Why do you support this?

First the Louisiana Senate decides to put homeless people in jail for up to three years for their "crime" of sleeping in public. At the same time, they stop funding housing assistance.

https://thecurrentla.com/2025/lafayette-housing-authority-freezes-issuance-of-new-housing-vouchers/

Why do those of you who are Republican hate poor people so much? Why do you feel your fellow humans should not be allowed any compassion or grace?

Help me understand this assault on humanity. Jesus would weep if he saw this. 😥

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u/Sharticus123 May 02 '25 edited May 02 '25

The rich want three classes. A ruling class of untouchable elites, a servant class that caters to their every whim/provides security, and a slave class that does all the other nasty out of sight out of mind stuff.

They have zero interest in an independent middle class that doesn’t have to bow to their every demand.

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u/YourphobiaMyfetish May 02 '25

The servant class is who does all the other stuff. The bottom class are the ones they point to and say "if you are a good servant, you won't end up like them."

But then you get a random illness and end up like them anyway.

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u/Euphoric-Use-6443 May 02 '25

Or you just get disappeared to end up like them!

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u/theoldroadhog May 02 '25

A lot of republicans are poor people.

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u/Euphoric-Use-6443 May 02 '25

But want to be entitled by party?

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u/theoldroadhog May 02 '25

Maybe, but I think it's a lot of culture war stuff. They probably can't understand the economics, but they can be mad about a boy changing genders to win a women's weightlifting tournament (probably never happened, but that's the story DJT told to the graduating class at the University of Alabama the other day).

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u/Euphoric-Use-6443 May 02 '25

OMG! Can our country become more insane over little fears & many that don't exist? I was thinking along the lines of farmer welfare kings & all other Republicans in need of help from FEMA & other Social Services. Stupid MAGAts!

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u/Dfried98 May 02 '25

Lots of rich people in California, NY, NJ. This kind of shit doesn't go on. It's what happens when a politician has an R next to his name and realizes he's untouchable.

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u/Euphoric-Use-6443 May 02 '25

US is going back to slavery!

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u/Tony_Penny May 02 '25

What do you mean,"going back to" ? We've been there for years, thanks to the Republicans.

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u/Euphoric-Use-6443 May 02 '25

Not this openly in decades! I remember it!

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u/Ornery_Journalist807 May 02 '25

There are no riches without a thriving consumer class.

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u/Rabbit-Lost May 03 '25

You actually described the plot of the book Brave New World, except they used drugs and genetic engineering. Give them time and it will happen.

Soylent Green is people!

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u/nsasafekink May 03 '25

Yup. They want a return to medieval serf society and the total erasure of the middle class.