Confessions of a Welfare Queen - Democratic Underground

TXlib

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Tue Mar-23-04 02:42 PM
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Confessions of a Welfare Queen

Confessions of a Welfare Queen
How rich bastards like me rip off taxpayers for millions of dollars
John Stossel

Law grinds the poor, and rich men rule the law.
-- Oliver Goldsmith

Ronald Reagan memorably complained about "welfare queens," but he never told us that the biggest welfare queens are the already wealthy. Their lobbyists fawn over politicians, giving them little bits of money -- campaign contributions, plane trips, dinners, golf outings -- in exchange for huge chunks of taxpayers’ money. Millionaires who own your favorite sports teams get subsidies, as do millionaire farmers, corporations, and well-connected plutocrats of every variety. Even successful, wealthy TV journalists.

That’s right, I got some of your money too.

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shoopnyc123

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Tue Mar-23-04 03:00 PM
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1. I'm shocked...

Johhny boy wrote this...looks like he wants to be a journalist again!

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Bossy Monkey

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Tue Mar-23-04 03:09 PM
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2. Boy, on the Daily Show he was taking the hardcore libertarian tack

Edited on Tue Mar-23-04 03:11 PM by undisclosedlocation

presumably in the interests of promoting this book. Practically the only person ever to make Stewart raise his voice (Jon ridiculed the idea that the unregulated market will take care of everything). Good on Stossel that he wrote the book; peculiar that he decided to play Capitalist Boy on the Daily Show

Edit: due to questionable antecedent

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camero

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Tue Mar-23-04 03:12 PM
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3. I think that's an act

Sort of the Good cop/Bad cop act with Stewart being the good cop. Always thought that. He was hamming it up too much to be taken seriously.

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dmr

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Tue Mar-23-04 03:41 PM
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4. That was a good read

Thanks for posting it, TXlib.

We sure do spend and waste a lot of money to help out those poor ol' rich people and their corporations.

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