The Cruel Nature Of How Orrin Hatch Hates Poor People

What a sick individual this man continues to be:

Welfare and unemployment beneficiaries would have to pass a drug test to qualify for programs under an amendment offered Tuesday by Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah).

Hatch introduced an amendment to the tax extenders bill that would require those who are applying for some of the benefits in that bill, including unemployment and welfare benefits, to pass a drug test in exchange for the benefits.

"Drugs are a scourge on our society — hurting children, families and communities alike," Hatch said in a statement. "This amendment is a way to help people get off of drugs to become productive and healthy members of society, while ensuring that valuable taxpayer dollars aren’t wasted.”

So shocking was this that Digby had to have a perspective on the latest cruelty from this royal nutcase from Utah:

See the only reason that someone doesn't have a job in this thriving economy is because they are drug addicts. Hatch is just trying to help.

What with David Walker's wistful call for a return to debtor's prison and this hideous attack on the unemployed it's evident that the fatuous elites in this country are so out of touch that they really have no idea how obscene their aristocratic braying sounds to average Americans. or perhaps they do, and just don't care. If your point is to pretend that 10% official unemployment is simply a reflection of the bad character of the unemployed so you can protect the wealth of the ruling class, then turning every unemployed person into a suspected criminal and potential drug user makes sense.

I don't know that I've ever seen anything quite like this. Historically, of course, it has some precedents. The most famous example didn't turn out so well for anyone, unfortunately. But you can certainly understand how the people got to the point of bloodlust, can't you?

When no one holds them accountable like the constant Beltway stenographers led by A.B. Stouddard at "The Hill" newspaper, than they certainly go on happily with their bloodlust getting stronger and stronger by the very day.

Of course, no one asked him in that latest "delusional diatribe for the downtrodden" from him this question:

"Senator Hatch, why do you hate poor people so very much?"

Someone needs to ask him that very question, because that is what he and his party forever will be about. They abominate the impoverish at any chance they get, no matter if they are in power or technically lacking dominion at the moment.

But with the archaic, insane rules of The House of Lords right now, they will always have some sort of chance to yield their oppressive ways on others.

In a current day where the oil companies continue to look ever the constant threats to a stable society, it is only in Republican interests, especially the loon Hatch, to always make the threat to humanity be people who could only dream about having just a normal middle class life.