Hungry Libertarians

So I tried watching Fox News to get their spin on the tailspin that the Republican Party is in, but it's tough. I watched for a little while yesterday, I almost switched when one of their guest book panderers made a comment about Obama's disturbed mother being part of the reason he is the way he is. I did switch when, as Colbert refers to him, the brown haired guy who's not Steve Doocey, in a tease for an upcoming segment about prison furloughs, no not Willie Horton, referred to them as "guys in prison, who are out."

So I moved one down the dial, boy does that term age me, to Morning Joe. It seems Joe's written a book. Good for him. It is apparently about conservatism. Joe, just like Arlen Specter, is no longer a Republican. He is a conservative / libertarian. Apparently, Joe doesn't know if there is a difference.

On one of his shows last week, he had on Suze Orman and Donny Deutsch. The were discussing ways to survive during the down economy. I was wondering how any of these people would know, when Joe told the story about his father being laid off from Lockheed during a previous recession. It seems Mr. Scarborough, and industrial engineer, couldn't find work in his chosen field, so took a job selling insurance. This was on topic for Deutsch's point against Orman. Deutsch saying that one shouldn't wait for the right job to come along, they should take whatever job they can get.

This is a valid point, and good for Mr. Scarborough for doing it for his family's sake. And Joe is proud of that, which he should be. But there is the implication that there are people out there who wouldn't take the job. The implication that there are shiftless, lazy, indolent people out there, living off the government dole.

I'd like to remind Joe that there were probably 40 people applying for that job. Joe's dad got it. Joe kind of forgets that the other 39 people, the other 39 families continued to suffer. Joe, as a proud conservative / libertarian, gives the impression that Democrats don't value the hard work that his father did.

Democrats do value it, but we also are concerned about the other 39 families. We are concerned that they have at least a bare subsistence living. That they have access to health care. That their children have access to education. When Joe was sworn in as a Congressman, he put his hand on the Bible, a book about helping the sick and the poor, and swore to uphold the Constitution, with its preamble about establishing justice and promoting the general welfare, and just doesn't seem to care.

I don't recall ever meeting a poor conservative or a hungry libertarian. Do they exist?