From the Heritage Foundation’s senior engineer of prevarication, Robert Rector, comes another Big Lie into the far right-wing’s disinformation bubble. Amplified by the National Review, the Weekly Standard and Fox News after being inflated by Jeff Sessions’ staff misuse of an October 16th report by the CRS (Congressional Research Service.)
This offers a good index of the kind of “work” the Heritage Foundation engages in under the rubric of “research.” Now that Jim DeMint is about to take charge of that “institution” we can expect ever less honest science and more demented, idiological rhetoric that misrepresents reality in ways supportively soothing to Republicans and Libertarians over in Cloud Cuckoo Land..
The gist of Rector’s lie is an economic myth to the effect of demonizing public services. This deliberately mendacious twist as stated by Daniel Halper in Weekly Standard, claims that federal “welfare spending per day per household in poverty is $168 which is higher than the $137 median income per day. When broken down per hour, welfare spending per hour per household in poverty is $30.60, which is higher than the #25.03 median income per hour.”
According to Alternet’s Joshua Holland, “Common sense should tell you that this is a ridiculous claim. Given that the United States has one of the weakest social safety nets in the world, it’s pretty obvious that we’re not spending more on each family in poverty than the median income – or more on the poor than we spend on defense, Social Security and Medicare. But let’s dig into the details.”
For those details and a correct analysis, please read Holland via the following link:
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