GOP Labor Day - Take Country Back To Poorhouse Days

Yes Labor was once respected and rewarded with laws in our country but now thanks to the GOP, Republicans, Reaganites and now the Tea Party, those benefits, hard won by the working class, are fading fast. If the GOP keeps on lying and people keep on believing their lies all of these labor advancements will be a thing of the past. Ignorance is not bliss unless you’re a wealthy corporate shareholder who profits from all the Horatio Alger horseshit the Republicans have propelled upon their flock. Most jobs today offer a low hourly wage WITH NO, zero, zip, zilch , nada BENEFITS AT ALL. With no work no pay and no safety net, the Poor/Work Houses will return. thinkingblue

A poorhouse or workhouse was a government-run facility in the past for the support and housing of dependent or needy persons, typically run by a local government entity such as a county or municipality.

The term is commonly applied to such a facility that housed the destitute elderly; institutions of this nature were widespread in the United States prior to the adoption of the Social Security program in the 1930s. Facilities housing indigents who are not elderly are typically referred to as homeless shelters, or simply "shelters," in current usage.

Often the poorhouse was situated on the grounds of a poor farm on which able-bodied residents were required to work; such farms were common in the United States in the 19th and early 20th centuries; it could even be part of the same economic complex as a prison farm and other penal or charitable public institutions.

PS: Now we know what the Republicans mean when they shout TAKE OUR COUNTRY BACK… to the days of the Poor House. Happy Labor Day!

WHAT WERE POORHOUSES?
the Poorhouse Story
(often also called Poor Farms -- and several similar terms --
or referred to with the older term -- Almshouses)

Poorhouses were tax-supported residential institutions to which people were required to go if they could not support themselves. They were started as a method of providing a less expensive (to the taxpayers) alternative to what we would now days call "welfare" - what was called "outdoor relief" in those days. People requested help from the community Overseer of the Poor ( sometimes also called a Poor Master) - an elected town official. If the need was great or likely to be long-term, they were sent to the poorhouse instead of being given relief while they continued to live independently. Sometimes they were sent there even if they had not requested help from the Overseer of the Poor. That was usually done when they were found guilty of begging in public, etc.

[One misconception should be cleared up here; they were not technically "debtors' prisons." Someone could owe a great deal of money, but if they could still provide themselves with the necessities for remaining independent they might avoid the poorhouse.]

BEFORE POORHOUSES
the Poorhouse Story

Prior to the establishment of poorhouses the problem of what to do with paupers in a community was dealt with in one of three ways:

Outdoor Relief provided through an Overseer of the Poor: When people fell upon hard times and members of their family, friends or members of their church congregations could not provide enough assistance to tide them over, they made application to an elected local official called the Overseer of the Poor. Within a budget of tax money, he might provide them with food, fuel, clothing, or even permission to get medical treatment to be paid out of tax funds.
http://www.poorhousestory.com/history.htm

In England, Wales and Ireland (but not in Scotland[1]) a poorhouse was more commonly known as a workhouse. In early Victorian times (see Poor Law), poverty was seen as a dishonorable state caused by a lack of the moral virtue of industriousness (or industry as it was called). As was depicted by Charles Dickens, a workhouse could resemble a reformatory and house children, either with families or alone, or a penal labor regime to give the poor work at manual labor and subject them to physical punishment. As the 19th century progressed, conditions improved.

GOP Labor Day-Take Country Back To Poor House Days

What is wrong with this Romney Photo Op?

Mitt Romney's Ad Infinitum Right-wing Buffoonery

Paul Ryan Believes Rape is Just Another Method of Conception.

Vote Id Law or Jim Crow Rides Again

THE IRE OF AN IRISH MAN

The Great White Backlash

Have You Moseyed Over To Facebook Lately?

Voter ID Law Is Disenfranchment,

Paul Ryan HEY GIRL!

Romney/Ryan Ticket
Outwardly they look like righteous people, but inwardly
their hearts are filled with hypocrisy and indifference.

Tell Us Paul Ryan,
How did the war on poverty become the war on the poor?

The Mother of all Lies

The Cat Speaks Out On Bigotry

Chick-Fil-Hate Day

Presenting the GOP's Evil Obamacare

A Safe Haven For Intolerance

How Many More Mass (5th Column) Killings Will The US Endure?

A senseless tragedy has happened once again.

Thank All That Is Good America Is Not A Christian Nation

A Graham Game

Ideology and Vanity and The Stupid

Teapublicans Out In Force Doing
What They Do Best: LIE!

Jonathan Krohn Not Your Average Everyday
Indoctrinated Child

Tea Party Mixed Bag of Nuts

Low Information Voters Moving To Canada. Yeah!

A Romney Win Will Be An OH NO For SCOTUS

Suffer The Children Of Social Inequality

Thank You Alan Turing For Today's Post

Cultural Insanity - Jailed For Peeing

We Are Americans - Just Not Legally

“The Uniform Was Misused!”

Flag Day One Nation Period!

Make Everything OK Button

Please Tell The GOP, No Man Is An Island.

GOP To Women: Equal Pay, No Way!

Wisconsin Where Money Talks Truth Walks

Boehner Reneges Cuts To Defense

Hooray For The 99% You Did It Again!

3 Thinking Comedians No Longer With Us

Memorial Day 2012 - Was The Iraq War a War of Choice?

GOP Tea Party Knows They Are Gonna Lose In 2012.

Homosexuality and Reality

GOP War On Women - continued

War On Women? Poppycock!

Billionaire has spilled the beans
on the 1%'s dirty little secret.

Why The Rightwing Have No Compassion

What's So Strange About Mormonism?

Robert Reich - Shout It From the Rooftops

Mitt Romney - A Meanness At His Core

Right-WingNut Blog Called 'The American Thinker'

Are You A Cyber Bully?

GOP WAR ON COMMUNISM. SAY WHAT?

ALEC - A Really Scary Movie

I Am A Job Creator

'ALEC' Has Been Forced To REAR ITS UGLY HEAD

"Stand Your Ground" Law, OVERKILL?

Where Does America's Bigotry Come From?

Welcome To The Cockroach Tea Party.

Who Does The 'Stand Your Ground' Protect?

Not A Christian, then GET OUT!

Why hasn't George Zimmermann Been Arrested?

Rightwing Looking For Trash on Trayvon

VOTING IN FLOIRDA IS NOW ILLEGAL

SNOPES UNDER FIRE BY THE GOP/TP

Youtube Peace Plea

War On Fairness

& Update:
Shoot First/Stand Your Ground Florida Law

Potpourri of GOP/TP Madness

Maybe We Shouldn't Hush The Rush

140 French Fries Have Fallen Out Of Limbaugh's Order

Rush Limbaugh, The Pied Piper of Dittoland

Help SUMOFUS Get Limbaugh Off Our Airwaves

THE MANY VENOMS OF RUSH LIMBAUGH

The Unabashed Ignorance of Rush Limbaugh

Andrew Breitbart Gone and With Him Goes His Hate

Once Upon A Time, Not So Long Ago,
The USA Was A Republic

Attention GOP/TP

Thinking Outside The GOP "Good Book"

GOP TEA PARTY Now Targeting (demonizing)
The Girl Scouts of America

POOR 101

Rational Intelligence Is On Our Side

GOP's Insane War On Women

A philosophical moment:

Without Christopher Hitchens, We (mankind)
Are Less.

C-PAC Your White Robes and Pointy Hats
Are Showing

RICK SCOTT DRUG TEST POOR PEOPLE UPDATE

The Greatest Generation - Stories

Breast Cancer Stories

Republican Knuckle Draggers

Tea Party Hitler Adam West

FOOTBALL

The Ugly American

GOP RESPONSE (Ignorance Is Not Bliss) ADDENDUM

GOP RESPONSE

THE UGLY GOP

WHY DOES THE GOP HATE?

STOP SOPA PIPA

ARE THE REPUBLICAN VOTERS WAKING UP?

A CRUSH ON NOAA AND OBAMA

OCCUPY WALL STREET -
AMERICAN AWAKENING

OCCUPY WALL STREET 4TH WEEK UPDATE

OCCUPY WALL STREET WEEK SIX -
We Shall Overcome

OWS - POLICE RAID OVER HEALTH CONCERNS

OWS - STUCK IN GOP'S CRAW

VETERAN'S DAY -
A PICTURE THAT SAYS A 1000 WORDS

OWS NEW YEAR 2012