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A friend of mine sent me the below clever forward about the first bailout package set forth by the Bush Administration. I thought, GOOD ANALYSES, FOR SURE, THE WALL STREET GANGBANGERS MADE MONKEYS OUT OF YOU AND ME… Bailouts make no sense at all… Especially the bonus part… (giving billions and billions of bonuses to top executives for failure… YIKES! BEAM ME UP SCOTTIE!)Goes to show you… only the very rich can expect government help… THE POOR? Well the hell with the poor… Reagan started bashing the poor when he coined the phrase WELFARE QUEENS…

WELFARE QUEEN: The term entered the
American lexicon during Ronald Reagan’s 1976
presidential campaign when he described a
“welfare queen” from Chicago’s South Side.
Since then, it has become a stigmatizing label placed
on recidivist poor mothers, with studies showing that
it often carries gendered and racial connotations.
Although american women can no longer stay on welfare
indefinitely, the term continues to shape American
dialogue on poverty.So when Governor Ronald Reagan aimed his political
ambition to the White House, the legend of the
so-called welfare queen became a rhetorical red meat
for Mr. Ronald Reagan, who had conveniently
“employed the graphic anecdote as a devastating
campaign weapon” given the fact that the poll at
the time showed that the food stamp program was rated
the most unpopular social welfare program. As the
president of the United States, Ronald Regan
continued doing what he had been doing since he was
the Governor of the State of California –
cutting social programs in the names of fighting
“waste, fraud and abuse,” cutting domestic
programs like food stamps and school lunches,
preaching fiscal frugality and distrust of
government; forcing welfare mothers to work; feeding
of rugged individual heroism, as he stated in his
1981 inaugural address – “We have every
right to dream heroic dreams…I am addressing the
heroes of whom I speak – you, the citizens of
this blessed land.” – meaning, everyone can
pull themselves up by the bootstraps; poor people are
heroes too who can take care of themselves; they are
not society’s or government’s responsibility.
from this site: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welfare_queen 

 

You’re on Welfare… if you get help from the government to feed your children but if you are a wealthy corporate executive, you are not a Welfare recipient, you are just getting a BAILOUT to help the American Economy… WHAT? Scottie where the hell are you? thinkingblue

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