It hurts to even read the Dude's posts.....thank God you're on the left side of the fence....
hes reached the zenith of stupidity...
Ronald Reagan's Welfare Queen, Linda Taylor
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It hurts to even read the Dude's posts.....thank God you're on the left side of the fence....
hes reached the zenith of stupidity...
The winning side navy girl
Groan away pinhead...its fun to watch you implode in one post and explode in the next....
Poor Dude.
He's from Loseriana...think there's a Dude Dynasty?
In the 1970s, Ronald Reagan villainized a Chicago woman for bilking the government. Her other sins—including possible kidnappings and murders—were far worse.
Ronald Reagan loved to tell stories. When he ran for president in 1976, many of Reagan’s anecdotes converged on a single point: The welfare state is broken, and I’m the man to fix it. On the trail, the Republican candidate told a tale about a fancy public housing complex with a gym and a swimming pool. There was also someone in California, he’d explain incredulously, who supported herself with food stamps while learning the art of witchcraft. And in stump speech after stump speech, Reagan regaled his supporters with the story of an Illinois woman whose feats of deception were too amazing to be believed.
“In Chicago, they found a woman who holds the record,” the former California governor declared at a campaign rally in January 1976. “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.” As soon as he quoted that dollar amount, the crowd gasped.
Four decades later, Reagan’s soliloquies on welfare fraud are often remembered as shameless demagoguery. Many accounts report that Reagan coined the term “welfare queen,” and that this woman in Chicago was a fictional character. In 2007, the New York Times’ Paul Krugman wrote that “the bogus story of the Cadillac-driving welfare queen [was] a gross exaggeration of a minor case of welfare fraud.” MSNBC’s Chris Matthews says the whole thing is racist malarkey—a coded reference to black indolence and criminality designed to appeal to working-class whites.
Though Reagan was known to stretch the truth, he did not invent that woman in Chicago. Her name was Linda Taylor, and it was the Chicago Tribune, not the GOP politician, who dubbed her the “welfare queen.” It was the Tribune, too, that lavished attention on Taylor’s jewelry, furs, and Cadillac—all of which were real.
As of 1976, Taylor had yet to be convicted of anything. She was facing charges that she’d bilked the government out of $8,000 using four aliases. When the welfare queen stood trial the next year, reporters packed the courtroom. Rather than try to win sympathy, Taylor seemed to enjoy playing the scofflaw. As witnesses described her brazen pilfering from public coffers, she remained impassive, an unrepentant defendant bedecked in expensive clothes and oversize hats.
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http://www.slate.com/articles/news_...an_made_her_a_notorious_american_villain.html
Liberals always be denying the history.....
My, my, $8,000 whole dollars. She's a veritable piker compared to a defense contractor like Brown and Root isn't she?
That's still a far cry from what the fascist Reagan claimed isn't it? Yes indeed it is, he was lying his fucking ass off! No getting around that! But keep trying to make 26, 80. When you get done with that magic trick maybe you can spin some straw into gold!
Said the idiot who associates "double digit interest" with communism. According to Boris any bank charging you "double digit interest" is a communist organization top to bottom!
StormX
Banned
Says the man who sports the "real fantasy world"!