Food stamps, housing subsidies and Medicaid are often necessary because workers cannot afford to live without them, and companies need these workers, but won’t pay them wages that are enough to survive.

There was an argument in the South prior to the Civil War, which claimed that slaves had room, board and medical care, but that so-called “wage slaves” in the North didn’t make enough to feed and clothe their families.

Does the GOP budget opposition to NDD tend to favor the worst of either the old North or the old South? I would suggest that it picks the worst of both situations, when folks overlook hiring the undocumented under the table and abuse them, while decimating the ranks of native unions and public employees.