The Wrong Kind of Suffering

"If you're low income you get lots...you can qualify for...in many states you can qualify for medicaid you can qualify for food stamps you can qualify for housing assistance, and that's not if you're in poverty, that's if you're above the poverty line and so you have all of these (sic) children growing up in an environment where government is paying you. And then we wonder why do these kids feel they're entitled to so much. (...) and that is not a healthy thing for children, its not a healthy thing for society, so that's how I square it, I square it that, you know, suffering, if you're a Christian, you know, suffering is part of life. And its not a bad thing. It is an essential thing, in life. And that...we suffer, there are all different ways to suffer, one way to suffer is through lack of food and shelter and there's another way to suffer which is lack of dignity and hope and (...) its not just tangible, its also intangible."



Senator/Mistress Rick Santorum (sadly) of Pennsylvania, at an Iowa town hall meeting, explaining why if you work but your income is insufficient to pay for housing, food, and or medical care having the government help you is a form of suffering worse than starving, being homeless or being chronically ill/dead from lack of health care. Because you know, now your children feel entitled. Obviously many full time jobs don't entitle you to earning anything like a living wage, so you should stop suckling at the government teat and maybe pay for trade school or an associate's degree with suffering (real, tangible suffering) Do it quick though. Suffering is an important part of life, but your kids can't eat it.