Monday, October 14, 2024

The GOP Has Become the Party of Welfare Recipients

Ronald Reagan loved to characterize the Democrats as the party of welfare queens. He said the blue team was the party of unmarried Black women in inner cities with half a dozen children from half a dozen (absent) fathers who lived off the government teat. He was so good at that and it sunk in so well that Bill Clinton ended up abolishing the version of welfare that Reagan was talking about (AFDC).

Comments

This should surprise no one who's paying attention.

#1 | Posted by Hans at 2024-10-14 07:43 AM

"Residents of 53% of America's counties now get at least 25% of their income from the government. They are dependent on programs from SNAP (food stamps) to Medicaid to Social Security. The vast majority of them are rural counties that vote for Republicans."

There's a reason Republicans hate an educated public and public education.

"I love the poorly educated."
Donald Trump
Also Poorly Educated

#2 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2024-10-14 08:05 AM

I don't understand the stats quoted.

First of all, you're including Social security as "welfare".

Some residents in 100% of American counties get at least 25% of their income from the govt. There aren't any counties where someone doesn't fit that description.

#3 | Posted by eberly at 2024-10-14 09:19 AM

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