Don't forget those fancy ass refrigerators.

gerrymander: Translation: entitlement spending should be cut almost 10%, and government employees tasked with finding better ways to ensure the remaining money doesn't get misused.

You may want to read the article before you assume that last 9% is fraud.

In fact:

Moreover, the vast bulk of that 9 percent goes for medical care, unemployment insurance benefits (which individuals must have a significant work history to receive), Social Security survivor benefits for the children and spouses of deceased workers, and Social Security benefits for retirees between ages 62 and 64. Seven out of the 9 percentage points go for one of these four purposes.

...And this is why the regressive, mean-spirited bullshiat coming from the GOP regarding the Poor and Working Poor is going to back-fire on them.

The "Welfare Queen" primarily exists in the heads of various uninformed "conservatives"... We shouldn't even call these people "conservatives" anymore because they're not. They're Reactionary Regressives.

Well, at least Politicians only scam the system for under 10 %

please, being disabled is the biggest racket going. do you really think those people would choose to be crippled if there were no big government payday attached to it?

gerrymander: James!: gerrymander: Translation: entitlement spending should be cut almost 10%, and government employees tasked with finding better ways to ensure the remaining money doesn't get misused.

You may want to read the article before you assume that last 9% is fraud.

I read the article. You'll notice that I never used the word "fraud".

So you're talking about cutting ss benefits for the children of dead people?

And a big F*ck You to Demon Reagan for creating the boogeyman that was the 'welfare queen'.

If you're looking for the leeches on our society, don't look at the bottom, look at the top.

Dusk-You-n-Me: If you're looking for the leeches on our society, don't look at the bottom, look at the top.

Heh.. No shiat.

When I was a kid, the word "entitled" was generally used for the wealthy, who never wanted for anything... Then Reagan came along and now living in a bed bug infested project and living on a few hundred dollars a month means someone is "entitled".

Really, submitter? I thought we paid legislators much better than that.

Plasma screens? how does GOP expect people to watch Fox news subby..?

so...the GOP is lying to us!?

i'm shocked - SHOCKED that there is gambling at Ricks!

James!: Don't forget those fancy ass refrigerators.

James!: Don't forget those fancy ass refrigerators.

As an aside, i'm starting to see more and more of my Republican friends use this meme to justify their support of 'f*ck the poor' policies. And this is from people who, not 15 minutes prior, were attempting to lecture me about how important it was to have God and Jesus involved in their parties political process.

Personally, I find it incomprehensible to worship a god who commands his followers to be kind to the poor and to hate material wealth and then do exactly the opposite of those commandments and claim that wealth and privilege are only the right of those elite few who are 'chosen by god'. its almost equally insane to attack ME for pointing out just how heretical most of the people calling themselves 'christian' are these days.


anyways, I suspect this thread will cause our local GOP shills to deploy their weapons of mass distraction. look for outright lies, changing the subject and ad hominem attacks. they might try attacking the source, but that can be tricky. So i'm guessing this will be a 'distraction' thread.

The only "entitled" people in this country are the capitalist class who think they have a god-given right to own everything and everyone. The rest of us are just trying to get enough of what we're due back away from them that we can get by day to day.

ultraholland: James!: Don't forget those fancy ass refrigerators.

Fark keeping food fresh!

While the wealthy are TAXED TO DEATH and forced to chill their Perrier in damp paper bags these "poor" are spending their welfare checks on boxes full of TV dinners and ice cold beer. This is N0bama's fartmerica.

GAT_00: Like the GOP cares. They have their rhetoric and facts never influence it. The only time they'll acknowledge the study exists is to dismiss it.

Just like 90% of those Planned Parenthood abortions and don't you forget it.

See, the Republicans are trying to save the rich from the horrors of income and capital gains taxes.

If you want to see con artists sucking at the government teet and bankrupting the country, the best place to look is the corporate welfare line.

Since when has the GOP's crusade against social services ever been about saving money? I mean, I know that's what they've always claimed, but has anyone with a triple-digit IQ ever actually believed them?

Saiga410: Maybe 10% goes toward binges on plasma tvs and drugs but 100% of entitlement spending goes toward societal leeches

this makes no sense.

The other 90% is refrigerators

1macgeek: Dusk-You-n-Me: If you're looking for the leeches on our society, don't look at the bottom, look at the top.

Yeah! It's not like they are paying their own way, and for about 40 other people, too!

/ haven't seen too many people on welfare hiring
// So are you a dumbass full time?
/// Or is this a new hobby for you?

You haven't seen very many rich people hiring either. Well, at least not hiring Americans.

winterwhile: Slavery... is still Slavery

thats what they are stuck on

dems love the entitlement society, they vote dem-o-rat

Freedom is Slavery - isn't that the GOP motto these days? Or was that 'war is peace'?

Saiga410: Weaver95: Saiga410: Maybe 10% goes toward binges on plasma tvs and drugs but 100% of entitlement spending goes toward societal leeches

this makes no sense.

Yes it does.

100% goes to leeches. 10% of what they do with it is binges on drugs and plasma screens. Do I need to draw a venn diagram?

so everyone/anyone who takes any form of government assistance is a 'leech'?

careful here....it'll go places you won't like.