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Reagan, the Republicans’ king of welfare reform, introduced us to the “welfare queen” during a campaign rally in 1976.
“In Chicago, they found a woman who holds the record,” he said. “She used 80 names, 30 addresses, 15 telephone numbers to collect food stamps, Social Security, veterans’ benefits for four nonexistent deceased veteran husbands, as well as welfare. Her tax-free cash income alone has been running $150,000 a year.”
That never happened. But her legend lives on.
The truth is that the average food stamp recipient isn’t an urban black woman at all. She is a white woman.
And the people who benefit most from food stamps paid for with our hard-earned tax dollars aren’t primarily black kids living in fatherless homes. They are little white kids who would starve to death if the government didn’t step in to help them.
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And the assumption that people who receive food assistance don’t work? It’s a lie.
Nearly one-third of all SNAP households — and nearly half of those with children — report an income. Many families rely on SNAP only when they are between jobs or because they are among millions of American’s working poor. The problem is that most of the jobs they can get are low-paying and often are temporary.
So the next time you hear someone complaining about a customer holding out the checkout line because they are using their SNAP card, tell them that it could be a friend or a relative who is simply trying to make ends meet. And that elusive "welfare queen"? She's just a figment of those Republicans’ uninformed imaginations.
Oh, this is hilarious. The only thing he accomplished today is to tick off his base, while doing absolutely nothing to resolve the situation. He uttered the most abhorrent word in the vocabulary--amnesty.
It's like he's trying to **** absolutely everyone off. And in that one thing, it seems, he excels.
This is comedy gold.
My first thought was that this was a non-event, but nothing that triggers Coulter this much is a total waste of time.
Last edited by Catgirl64; 01-19-2019 at 04:12 PM..
Reason: Oops, missed a word, a very key word!
I agree, better to have a homophobic ultraconservative in office than a mentally unstable, corrupt grifter. (Man ain't it a terrible choice though?)
Hell yeah, it is!
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