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OP claimed that there are more people on welfare than working in the death spiral states.
OP's claim came from a chain email.
The chain email distorted the original article. OP's claim was discredited by factcheck.
Throw in all the Tea Partiers that are on Medicare, SS and Disbilities. I am sure they add up. Of course we don't want to count them do we??
You're pretty presumptuous.
If I were an American, I'd likely be on the side of the Tea Party (not the co-opted one, though).
I don't draw pension or disability. I work and pay taxes out of my eyeballs.
Well, if you are one of those people that receive some sort of government benefit or salary (except Medicare and Social Security, of course. The favorite Big Government programs of BGSB types), you're a government leech, welfare addict, etc.
Teachers, law enforcement, medical personnel, firefighters, military personnel all receive government salaries. Every person educated in a public school, who has used a public library or driven on a publicly constructed road has received a government benefit. Are we all leeches? Or are you just wrong?
Well, if you are one of those people that receive some sort of government benefit or salary (except Medicare and Social Security, of course. The favorite Big Government programs of BGSB types), you're a government leech, welfare addict, etc.
Yeah, sure. We really don't need all those doctors and nurses in VA hospitals, all the folks who make our passports, or all those law enforcement guys who stop the illegal aliens and the foreign terrorists. Or just catch criminals that cross state borders.
No need for any park rangers or forest rangers. Or meat and produce inspectors. Or FEMA workers. Hell, we never have forest fires, park accidents or hurricanes anyway.
Shoot. We don't need new roads or bridges. Our bridges never fail. Our airplanes never crash, and our electricity never goes out. Our sewers don't pollute, and we never catch exotic diseases that come from other countries. No need to have any of the guys who work on all that.
No need for postal inspectors. Let some nut send a bomb in the mail, as long as it isn't your mail. No need for air traffic managers, or customs agents, and we sure don't need the Coast Guard. it's just another big expense of the Treasury Dept.
And while we're at it, lets do away with all the record keepers. My kid will never need his social security card replaced or his MediCare records revised.
Why not get rid of all the Federal judges? They don't do anything.
All government leeches and welfare addicts, every one of them. All much worse than living in total anarchy.
You are as crazy as a peach orchard boar, but you are blessed. You can say anything you want, no matter how stupid it is. But there's somebody who protects your free speech, so you need not worry. Until you fire him, too.
Well, if you are one of those people that receive some sort of government benefit or salary (except Medicare and Social Security, of course. The favorite Big Government programs of BGSB types), you're a government leech, welfare addict, etc.
So now it's benefits and salary..Nice movement of the goal posts.
Don't know about the other states, but Mississippi and Alabama have had large numbers of people in poverty for a long time, lots of poverty families, and very large populations of blacks. In Texas, you'll meet lots of people whose middle or upper class families lived in those places generations ago, then fled to get to more prosperous places.
Don't know about the other states, but Mississippi and Alabama have had large numbers of people in poverty for a long time, lots of poverty families, and very large populations of blacks. In Texas, you'll meet lots of people whose middle or upper class families lived in those places generations ago, then fled to get to more prosperous places.
If the poll were a true reflection of the thread title - I would expect to see WV on that map.
You are as crazy as a peach orchard boar, but you are blessed. You can say anything you want, no matter how stupid it is. But there's somebody who protects your free speech, so you need not worry. Until you fire him, too.
I'm curious, even though this wasn't directed at me. Who, exactly, is protecting free speech?
Well, if you are one of those people that receive some sort of government benefit or salary (except Medicare and Social Security, of course. The favorite Big Government programs of BGSB types), you're a government leech, welfare addict, etc.
So, according to YOU, all military and politicians are also leeches, you do know that includes Cruz, Ryan and Paul. Hmmmm maybe you are on to something.
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