Mirrored Inhumanity

From the London Times:

• Brown plans to take cash from the poorest families

Gordon Brown is facing a Labour revolt over plans to cut the benefits of the poorest families by up to £15 a week, The Times can reveal.

What is it about the self-described upper echelons in America and across the pond that drives them to further humiliate the disadvantaged or the less financially endowed? Why not take away entitlements from the snoot-nosed politicians and grumblers nestled in the armpit of the far right?

For lack of a better idiom, the scum of the earth hath no conscience.