Instead of providing food to children in Oklahoma, Gov. Kevin Stitt wants them to receive “stigma” instead.
Hmmm. Christian holy-roller Kevin believes it would be a good thing for families to be stigmatized by forcing them to physically go pick up commodities rather than using a card when purchasing cheese, butter, bread, milk, etc.
Our family in the 1950s relied on these foodstuffs, as did thousands of others, and as we consumed our meals we, as young children, didn’t taste stigma, rather just nourishment that kept us going. The humiliation fell to my mother who would go to the Cleveland County barn in Lexington, after work in Norman, to pick up what she could to add to what she bought at Chandler’s Grocery on Main Street.
What good purpose does a man so privileged as Stitt create for many of his constituents by urging a return to a bulky, inefficient, labor-intensive system that would embarrass, humiliate and degrade so many of the food recipients?
There is a meanness, a devilish delight, in the soul of anyone, but especially those in power over the powerless, to apply pain and suffering against such unfortunates just because they can.
Stitt, the son of a preacher, must have not been a good listener to daddy’s sermons or, more likely, he is merely a privileged person who can’t see beyond the circle of powerful others who dominate and benefit from his time in public office.
For example, handing out $200 million of your tax money to a previous business partner and his former chief of staff – Bond Payne, by name – is just a part of his stated goal to make Oklahoma the friendliest state in the union for business.
A work in progress for our state. A life’s comfort for Payne who was already very comfortable.
However, at the same time, handing out commodities to tens of thousands of hungry Oklahomans in the most efficient and effective way is, to Stitt, simply public welfare, which he abhors unless it is in the form of corporate welfare which he then adores.
And so goes the daily work and priorities of Oklahoma’s worst governor ever.
