Swell, just what we need. "The Next Ann Coulter"

[Scuba]

http://nationalmemo.com/article/next-ann-coulter



..snip..

SCARBOROUGH, Maine (AP) — A 20-year-old college student has developed a following and gotten at least five marriage proposals after writing a column about her experiences with welfare recipients as a Wal-Mart cashier. She says she wants to be the next Ann Coulter.

Christine Rousselle, who attends Providence College in Rhode Island, wrote on the website The College Conservative about her experiences working as a teenager at a Wal-Mart store in her hometown of Scarborough, Maine.

In the column this week, Rousselle described customers using welfare money to buy toys, lobsters and jewelry, and welfare recipients yakking on expensive iPhones. She suggested that a hot dog stand operator used food stamps to supply his business.

She came to a startling realization after a Massachusetts customer showed her a welfare card with former Massachusetts Gov. Michael Dukakis' signature. That meant the man had been on welfare as long as Rousselle had lived, since she was born in 1991, the same year Dukakis' last term ended.

"I'm having the time of my life," Rousselle said. "I would love to do this full-time. My dream job is to be Ann Coulter."

..end..



I guess if you want to guarantee success, set the bar real low. Underground, in fact.

[Ferret Annica]

1. She'd have more status selling cheap Chinese crap at Walmart...

... than being a copy of that particular waste of oxygen.

[Scuba]

2. No question I have more respect for WalMart cashiers than Coulter. n/t

[FarLeftFist]

43. SHOW US PROOF AND BACK UP YOUR CLAIMS! Mommy and Daddy are paying her way through college and

SHE'S talking about handouts?! Sorry millions of Americans can't have rich parents.

[brewens]

3. I actually know a food vendor that uses his food card to buy some

supplies for his business. This guy is real frugal with his normal food purchases and doesn't buy a lot of prepared convenience stuff. He ends up with money left over and in the off season stocks up on some things he uses for his business.

From late spring to early fall he manages to make enough to barely pay his bills through the winter. He's otherwise self sufficient despite being IMO qualified for dissability. The state buying him a couple thousand dollars in stock for his business probably comes out ahead on that one.

[treestar]

23. The right wing should like that because their answer to not being able to find a job is: just start

a business!

[FarLeftFist]

44. The FRIGHTWING Always always always NEEDS A BOOGEYMAN. They have NO platform other than HATE.

[spanone]

4. like aspiring to be a garbage collector

[Control-Z]

7. ouch! n/t

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

27. But a garbage collector provides a useful service. nt

[Liberal_in_LA]

50. agreed. It's an honorable honest job.

[tblue37]

80. Don't dis garbage collectors! They are decent, hardworking people

who do a difficult but necessary job, and one that many people would not like to do themselves. The job a garbage colelctor does is absoutely esential--unlike many of the more "prestigious" jobs that get paid so much more money, but without contributing anything of value to society!

[DissedByBush]

117. I reserve the right to dis anyone

I've burned shit cans and didn't have a shower available at the end of the day. It doesn't get any lower than that. I also had a high school summer campground job that often involved reaching down into RV sewer pipes to unclog them. I've done dishwasher, busboy and litter pickup (including the occasional used condom behind the bushes), and probably cleaned a million toilets, and pulled enough lint out of dryers to make blankets for a small city.

But seriously I see it the other way. I've done that job and worse, so I can put myself in his place. That keeps me respecting people. It's also why we wash and disinfect our trash can every couple weeks, a little way to make their day easier.

[Oldtimeralso]

101. I have garbage collectors in my family.

And their motto is your satisfaction is guaranteed or double your garbage back!

[hifiguy]

121. Or chief shoveller at the shitworks. nt

[Bucky]

5. To have a "new" one, don't we have to get rid of the old one first?

[proud2BlibKansan]

6. She's lying. Clinton reformed welfare and NO ONE can receive benefits for more than 5 years.

If she still works at WalMart, they need to be contacted. I feel certain that they wouldn't want one of their "associates" disrespecting their customers like this.

[MH1]

19. she's writing imprecisely. There is no program called 'welfare', right?

Last I heard, what is commonly called 'welfare', and what you are referring to, is (or was) called TANF - Temporary Aid to Needy Families. There is also WIC - 'women, infants and children' benefits, that I don't know much about, but presume they aren't generally available to men.

She may be lumping food stamps in with this. That is almost certainly the case with the men she's referring to.

Writing imprecisely and obfuscating distinctions will do her well in her chosen career.

[proud2BlibKansan]

32. Only an idiot is unable to distinguish between food stamps and TANF

Oh never mind. She's a self-described conservative. Nuff said.

[friendly_iconoclast]

41. Actually, she's flat-out lying. MA went to credit card-style benefit cards several years ago.

Granted, she *may* have found some eccentric that retained his old card- but her claim of having taken more than an hour
to ring a $400 purchase is ludicrous.

[AZ Progressive]

52. She's just like any other conniving right winger that bends reality to suit their agenda

They convince themselves of these ridiculous stories in order to condemn the common people to justify their praise for the wealthy elites and to have their ideology (and perhaps even their pursuit of riches) justified.

[DissedByBush]

118. WIC is this way

I was in line yesterday and a family up front was buying a bunch of stuff on WIC, which uses paper forms that have to be filled out.

It took FOREVER!

But I don't blame them. I blame the government for not automating this program.

But until then if I see WIC papers, I'm going to a different register.

[closeupready]

8. Sad.

nt

[The Straight Story]

9. Here is a little of what she wrote:

The worst thing I ever saw at Wal-Mart Scarborough was two women and their children. These women each had multiple carts full of items, and each began loading them at the same time (this should have been a tip-off to their intelligence levels). The first woman, henceforth known as Welfare Queen #1, paid for about $400 worth of food with food stamps. The majority of her food was void of any nutritional value. She then pulled out an entire month’s worth of WIC (Women, Infants, and Children program) checks. I do not mind people paying with WIC, but the woman had virtually none of the correct items. WIC gives each participating mother a book containing actual images of items for which a person can and cannot redeem the voucher. This woman literally failed at image comprehension.

After redeeming 10+ WIC checks, Welfare Queen #1 had me adjust the prices of several items she was buying (Wal-Mart’s policy is to just adjust the price of the item without question if it’s within a dollar or two). She then pulled out a vacuum cleaner, and informed me that the cost of the vacuum was $3.48 because, “that’s what it’s labeled as.” The vacuum cleaner was next to a stack of crates that were $3.48. Somehow, every other customer was able to discern that the vacuum cleaner was not $3.48, but Welfare Queen #1 and her friend Welfare Queen #2 were fooled. Welfare Queen #2 informed me that she used to work for Wal-Mart, and that the “laws of Wal-Mart legally said” that I would have to sell her the vacuum for $3.48. After contacting my manager, who went off to find the proper vacuum price, Welfare Queen #1 remarked that it must be tough to stand on a mat all day and be a cashier. I looked at her, smiled, shrugged, and said, “Well, it’s a job.” She was speechless. After they finally admitted defeat, (not before Welfare Queen #2 realizing she didn’t have enough money to buy all of the food she had picked out, resulting in the waste of about $200 worth of products) the two women left about an hour and a half after they arrived at my register. The next man in line said that the two women reminded him of buying steel drums and cement. I said I was reminded why I vote Republican.

http://thecollegeconservative.com/2011/12/13/my-time-at-walmart-why-we-need-serious-welfare-reform/

[madmom]

15. If it took her an hour and a half to do this transaction she was a piss poor cashier..

and why would $200 worth of "products" be wasted? No, I was a cashier for a time and this just reeks of republican values!

[friendly_iconoclast]

55. +1. I was a cashier for a while, as well. She's full of it.

[MH1]

24. if anything like that really happened - and it might have -

the women involved need help, not ridicule.

But it's not like we're a Christian nation or anything, so never mind me and my silly notions.

[Orangepeel]

65. I only read the posted excerpt but I really don't get the point.

These women are dumb so they don't deserve food stamps? Dumb people get food stamps so the author is voting republican?

[alp227]

68. She needs to read up on history especially the '96 reform.

I feel that some RW think tank paid her to write this BS. And I have a hard time believing someone bought $400 worth of junk food with food stamps.

[gtar100]

81. Wow! I find that really hard to believe. In fact, I find it impossible to believe.

It's just another imaginative Republican story that supports their self-serving belief system. Much like this one:


A self-important college freshman walking along the beach took it upon himself to explain to a senior citizen resting on the steps why it was impossible for the older generation to understand his generation. "You grew up in a different world, actually an almost primitive one" the student said loud enough for others to hear. "The young people of today grew up with television, jet planes, space travel, man walking on the moon. We have nuclear energy, ships and cell phones, computers with light speed...and many more." After a brief silence, the senior citizen responded as follows. "You're right son. We didn't have those things when we were young... so we invented them. Now, you arrogant little sh*t what are you doing for the next generation?" The applause was amazing!


Yea, this is just a bunch of contrived bullshit too. Something Republicans are good at because they don't have any real facts to back up any of their positions or their beliefs. They have to make up stories like this in order to justify their selfishness and hatred for anyone who doesn't think like they do.

[DissedByBush]

120. I like that story

It doesn't have to be political.

In decades that could be a freshman bragging that young people of the day grew up with universal access to health care, and the senior being of the generation that enacted it asking "So now what are you going to do for the next generation?"

Every generation should give better to the next, rather than steal from it as many of our current politicians seem hell bent on doing.

[phasma ex machina]

89. One actually finds the genuine welfare (ie stimulus) queens in the 1%.

[Enrique]

128. she ridicules the woman for being nice to her

This part made me believe the story: (though I think it's embellished)

After contacting my manager, who went off to find the proper vacuum price, Welfare Queen #1 remarked that it must be tough to stand on a mat all day and be a cashier. I looked at her, smiled, shrugged, and said, “Well, it’s a job.” She was speechless.

This writer is clueless about how vicious she is. I find it very believable that this customer perceived the cashier's hatred of her, even after she made a pleasant comment toward her, and was stunned into silence.

[groundloop]

10. She probably all made up all those stories, like all good right wingers

It doesn't take any time or effort for tea-baggers to make up their right wing propaganda, then we on the left spend way too much time and effort refuting it.

[Scuba]

11. Bingo.

[The Straight Story]

12. The stuff she wrote about HS is filled with stories too, and there is this:

It’s only fitting to say that my standardized test scores from sophomore year showed a marked decrease in English language and reading skills. This did not surprise me at all. I was far too busy being indoctrinated into acceptance of global warming, homosexuality, and multiculturalism to learn silly things like English grammar.

http://thecollegeconservative.com/2011/11/29/indoctrination-story/

[madmom]

16. Typical repug, blaming everyone else for her lack of ability.

[alp227]

69. She missed Herman Cain's "blame yourself" lecture.

[MH1]

22. Wow, that is so freakin' sad.

as the one before me said, typical republican, blaming someone else. Ya know, her reading skills wouldn't have taken a hit at all, if she had, you know, been READING.

[Vanje]

58. "I are a idiot , because

of Al Gore , Homoseckshuls, and minorities!"

[StarsInHerHair]

86. no, no! it's spelled minorituhs! realy!11!

[jmowreader]

102. I thought it was "minoritahs"

Those minoritahs won't respect my authoritah!

[StarsInHerHair]

103. well THAT depends on if you're from west of the Mississippi or east. Out here it HAS to be a soft

tuh! really!1! Get it right!!!11

[jmowreader]

111. Not a South Park watcher, I take it...

There was an episode a hell of a long time ago where Cartman, the fat stupid teabagger kid, got deputized into the South Park police department. He immediately began to brutalize the people he caught, screaming "Respect my authoritah!" while he did it.

[themadstork]

63. poor spoiled brat

i hope she gets carpal tunnel, and a wicked cramp in her pen-hand

[alp227]

71. The opening tag: "Why I can tell you all about gay sex, but I can’t define the word 'predicate.'"

When will Christine's Roy Ashburn/Larry Craig/John Paulk moment come, y'know when photos of her making out with other women are leaked? I find it amazing how the harshest anti-gay voices think about the nastiest stuff about homosexuality all the time. And how CONs hate how they think liberals use victimhood for personal gain then turn around and play the victim card whenever it's convenient to advance their deceitful agenda.

[StarsInHerHair]

87. you know I would ask her to tell me all about gay sex, prove it-bet she stutters!

[Quantess]

13. exactly.

[treestar]

20. Yes. Or even if they are true, she just culled out the right wing stereotypes

And forgot to mention the many more she encountered who were buying food.

[Johonny]

62. +1

[UTUSN]

14. R#1 & K for the heads-up. Oh, and, BLEAH!1 n/t

[Jello Biafra]

17. I'm relieved....I saw the title of the posting...

and thought there was going to be a reality show called "The Next Ann Coulter"...

maybe I responded too soon?

[warrior1]

18. she will reap

what she's sows. But have at it little Ann.

[Lyric]

21. I get Food Stamps and Medicaid. My son will have an Xbox 360 under the tree this Christmas.

Why? Because someone ELSE is buying it for him. He wanted it, we couldn't afford it, one of our dear friends heard about that, and is buying him his dream present out of sheer, unbelievable kindness and generosity. But if she walked into my home without knowing the circumstances, she would assume that we were frauds who wasted taxpayer dollars in order to buy expensive toys.

Just because you see a welfare recipient with expensive gadgets or nice clothes, does not mean that THEY actually bought those things. Believe it or not, there are people out there who occasionally give gifts--even expensive ones--to poor people who could not otherwise afford them. With the sole exception of our computer, which was purchased at Wal-Mart for $400 we took out of our student aid, every other "gadget" that we possess is something that someone else bought for our son. We are fortunate enough to have some generous friends who care about our son and want him to have as normal a childhood as possible considering our circumstances. I am deeply grateful for that, believe me. Most poor people don't have anyone in their lives who is capable of doing such things for them.

I just wish people would give others the benefit of the doubt instead of constantly assuming the worst.

[Tikki]

28. Absolutely...when I was a school lunch cashier a few of the....

teachers would complain to me that they knew students on free lunch who
wore little gold necklaces or designer jeans and such.
I would remind them that these items were more than often gifts from
grandparents or lucky finds from the thrift stores.

I guess the only way these wingers can sleep at night is if poor children wear
their poverty around like a scarlet letter.


Tikki

[The Genealogist]

48. The scarlet letter analogy is VERY apt for what RWers want to do

They want to mark out, scapegoat, and other poor people. It doesn't matter if the people they crap all over are 100 days or 100 years old, poor people are bad people. This is especially true if a poor person gets any sort of government assistance at all. But it is perfectly fine for billions to be passed on to bankers, and rich people with land they are "farming" (haha), and tax breaks for "job creators" who all too often are creating just as many, if not more, jobs overseas in sweatshops. I don't know how people can be so damned mean and hateful to people for being poor, and still sleep at night.

[yardwork]

126. It says everything about their values, doesn't it?

[glowing]

37. Make sure that when you buy games for that Xbox 360, you take your

son to a Game Stop or something like that. Its mostly ALL used games. Normally, you can find pre-used games for $5.00- $10.00. If the purchase is absolutely horrible quality, you can return it for a different choice or money back within a certain amt of time... AND if there are games your son gets that he doesn't like or that he outgrows, he can take back his used games and sell them back to the store or use the used games to bring down the price on new purchases. That's what my husband does for any birthday, christmas, or occasion when our son has saved up enough spare change to buy himself a couple of games... No new one's for us. He's 7. He can wait for any of the newest "got to have's" to make their way to one of the used stores. I think the only people who actually buy him new games are relatives. Just a little tip to make the Xbox a bit more rewarding.

Also, I'm not so sure about Xbox capabilities, but with the Play Station 3 and the Wii that we have in the home, they are WiFi capable. I'm not sure if you have WiFi or not, but accessing the internet with the machine is kinda neat.. and makes a cheap way of accessing "cable shows"... You can buy a cheap monthly package with netflix and be able to watch tv shows, movies.. etc. My sister in law does this through her sons Wii... They do NOT have cable in their home except to provide the internet. So, for like $8.00 a month, they can access lots of tv shows and movies and can purchase new movies to watch for cheaper than blockbuster if they choose. She took out cable after she got divorced and was living as a single mom... She has since married and now has 3 children and a husband again. Its been a good 4 yrs now since she's had cable box for tv shows. It was a huge cost savings for their family.

I would love to try and convince my hubby that this would be a great way to cut out on an expense every month. I know with our cable internet provider, they have an AP that allows live viewing of the cable channels. I really believe that the cable box is going to be gone and that we will all be watching what we want to thru the internet on our time when we want to. Between the new launch of YouTube tv shows and TV shows that one can access online thru the channel directly or many times thru HuLu... People's lives are crazy and hectic. People don't operate on the normal schedule of a man at work from 9am - 5pm, with Ma as the stay at home mom, and the tv shows coming on during the evening for the family to watch and then the kids to bed and adult shows after 10pm... That whole schedule doesn't fit. Most people have to DVR or catch up on episodes on one's own time on their iPad or Lap Top or even their mini smart phones.

AND really, there is no reason at all to apologize for your son having an electronic toy like most children in America. There are a lot of people who line up (now on Thanksgiving night) to buy cheap electronic items for their family members because those discounts will make the item affordable. When 48% of all Americans can be classified now as living in poverty or very close to poverty and 57% of all children are living in those impoverished or close to poverty households, it is going to be more common to see families utilizing Food Stamps, WIC, and TANF if they can. I would say that the poverty threshold for a family of 4 is much too low. Its unrealistic to think that $22,000 for a family of 4 is the number that makes one poor or not. Where can a family even live with an income like that? And the cost of food is increasing dramatically.

I would say that the amount of money that we give to families needs to actually increase along with the poverty income threshold and/ or the amount in which a family would qualify for assistance... or a minimum wage that pays actual living costs, medicare for all, tax increases on the greedy wealthy, "free" daycare for all children like free school, an increase in mandatory work pay/ coupled with a decrease in the amt of hours that is considered a full time work week. Families need time to spend with one another, mandatory 2 wk paid for vacation, mandatory 2 wk pd sick leave (and not something that can be used as a day off to be fair.. worker should prove that a child, parent, or self was ill OR that an actual funeral took place for a family member.. if we had Medicare for All, then there would be no worry about seeing a Dr when they really are sick and getting a worker sign off note.) And with companies forced to pay a minimum wage that is a living wage, coupled with the "work week" being like 30hrs, they would be forced to hire new persons to be able to function... Theoretically, if every worker had enough money to afford their lives, then the company's business should increase (if its something the market wants), due to demand of that product or whatever one is trying to sell.

In any society, there are going to be dishonest people who will scam any system or figure out the best ways to screw other people or get freebie items in dishonest ways. The only difference in those so-called "Welfare Queens" gaming the system and the wealthy elite/ pols scamming other's out of money or rigging the system, is the luck of the draw on their parents and connections and the level of wealth they steal... The Banksters, CEO's, Board of Directors, Wall St, politicians steal and collude on a bigger level and they can influence the law to protect their actions from equalling jail time in order to steal tax payer money, people's life's savings, pensions, small towns, charities.... The Welfare Queens are in Walmart using a pre-determined amount of money that the govt allows because of their overall income, which may just be nothing.

Reality is little miss Walmart worker is jealous because she's working, make shit for income, and seeing people get free stuff. Reality is Miss Little Walmart Worker Republican used the job as a part-time, extra cash type of position and probably lived in a relatively secure household that provides for her more than adequately. She received a decent education in a decent household and a decent school district. Her parents were willing to support her and were able to help her to go to college. The college she is attending is not cheap. She's paying Out of State tuition to attend the college in Rhode Island. She has a better chance than peers of hers that have not been able to attend college for most of her life. Its truly sad that she is more offended by the "Welfare Queens" figuring their way around the systems to get more value out of their shopping experience at Walmart of all places (the company that has killed American family store businesses and extracts more value away from the host city than keeps within the town to be spread around over and over again instead of landing in the Walton's pocket for billions every year), than she is worried about the vile, psychopathic individuals that make up the Republican party and those that have bought the representatives to insulate their thievery. Think of all the corporations like Walmart who hire lobbyists and pad political campaigns to insulate their wealth. The company costs the American people a lot of money. Their refusal to pay workers a living wage, coupled with a mixture of not allowing workers a full 40hrs of pay to keep the workers for qualifying for full time working benefits OR if they do qualify for the benefits, they make the insurance premiums equal almost all of the worker's pay for the week. OR in some states, the employees minimum salary qualifies the worker for Medicaid or Medicare... so the taxpayers are picking up the costs of one of the wealthiest companies NOT paying for its workers. And because they are a big company, towns normally give them all kinds of tax give-aways because they are going to provide jobs (I believe Walmart is one of the biggest employers in America). And then there are all the corporate tax loopholes they have bought themselves from congress. And then there is the decimation of Main St with the take over of the Big Box store providing cheaper goods. And then their is the decimation of the American production line due to their buying of cheaper goods from foreign companies in China and other developing nations. AND they love to exploit women and children the most.... From those who are working in the cashier line to those in the developing countries who are producing clothes and toys etc with exploitative sweat shops. Walmart does nothing to help humanity. The Republicans, and now too often Democrats, have literally taken their 30 shillings to sell out the American people and the people of the world, in general. AND this Miss Little Walmart working, wannabe Ann Coulter, is worried about a couple of women figuring out how to get the most bang for their buck out of Walmart and from their meager Government assistance... I guess the millions stollen from the American people means nothing to her.

Her reading score went down in the 10th grade due to her inability to comprehend reading facts, figures, and statistics and apply them in an analytical and comprehensive manner in regards to the bigger picture.

Sorry, another Bird Walk, rant when I really just wanted to mention a cheaper way to get the games to play on the Xbox.... And I wish my tax payer money did more to pay for things like impoverished families, neighborhood improvement/ betterment projects, moving ourselves off of harmful carbon-based energy sources (kinda like we worked the Manhattan project or NASA getting man to the Moon), raising people's quality of life (like Medicare For All, living wages, less time for that "full time hours week", free education and tech vocation, etc), than paying for the wealthy to stay wealthier and steal from the American people (hello bail outs), wars, and drill baby drill policies and subsidies going to another billion dollar profit industry that is killing our future....

[justiceischeap]

40. My parents are retired and "living" on SSI.

They get about $1500 a month to live on, yet bringing in $18k a year ($14,710 is poverty level for a 2 person household) puts them slightly above the poverty line, so they can't get Food Stamp assistance, or heating assistance in the winter, etc. They are about to lose their home and have their electricity turned off because of out-of-pocket medical expenses to keep them alive are eating away at their monthly stipend (and me and my siblings are strapped as well).

As a matter of fact, the state of MO cut my mom's Medicaid because her chemotherapy was too costly so she had to quit taking chemo. They suggested if my parents were divorced, she could get better benefits. How screwed up is that?

[tblue37]

84. Heck, most stores like Walmart in most towns and cities actually have

a Christmas tree with lists of families who have applied to be included for gifts from those who want to "adopt" a family for Christmas. The individual family members' names are not included, but the number of people who need gifts, and the age and gender of the individuals, are listed so that the adopters can purchase suitable gifts for each one.

It is quite possible that the nice gadget, toy, or piece of jewelry the person has was a gift from someone who "adopted" that family for Christmas.

Why shouldn't individuals or families who are having financial problems get to own nice things? Yes. sometimes they are gifts, but not always. Sometimes a parent has scraped, scrimped, sacrificed, and saved over a long period of time to collect enough money to buy his or her child the nice gift the child has been dreaming of for so long.

Just having something nice that goes beyond absolute necessity can make life so much more pleasant for a person--especially a child--who is experiencing financial insecurity.

Someone needs to smack that little Coulter-wannabe upside the head--good and hard.

[StarsInHerHair]

88. as if refurbished iphones don't exist, either

she's a rude, mentally lazy person.

[lunatica]

25. All she ever needed to know she learned in Wal Mart

I'm sure welfare recipients are her version of Democrats because, after all, it was Dukakis' photo on that welfare card. Ergo she's wise beyond her years.

[proud2BlibKansan]

26. Has anyone sent this to WalMart?

If this little darling wants to work there again next summer, perhaps they need to know what she's posting online about their customers.

[proud2BlibKansan]

98. All the more reason to send it.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

29. she probably has a rich mommy and daddy

or at least someone who will provide for her.

[thucythucy]

30. Michael Dukakis

used to sign welfare IDs? Really?

I would love someone to post a scan of such a document.

Besides which, why would anyone carry around an ID that's 20 plus years old? Just to show Walmart cashiers and boast about milking the system?

I could certainly be wrong, but this story reeks BS from first word to last.

[quinnox]

31. Really don't like to hear about these nitwits

I don't want to hear about Anne Coulter or any of her proteges, they have nothing of interest to say and I don't care what they think.

[Wise Child]

33. Didn't Ann Coulter's style worked best

under the authoritarian vibe of the last administration? This young lady is just bellyaching over having to deal with AP English teachers and welfare recipients.

I think Ann Coulter is somewhat disappointed over not relying on her old authoritarian schtick.

[MurrayDelph]

34. That goal is like playing "King of the Mountain"

on Bandini Mountain.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

35. It's disturbing

that somebody actually aspires to be like her. Unfortunately, that probably means that she's on the fast track to Fox News *stardom*

[proud2BlibKansan]

36. Ok. Fess up. Who left this comment:

"Ha! Ever occur to you that you may be working fewer hours if not for these people? And the waste in food stamps is negligible compared to Medicare and Defense fraud. If minimum wage kept pace with inflation, it would be $10/hr. But since jobs are being outsourced, pay can and is depressed. But I know conservatives just lap up this stuff to have a whipping boy for "government waste". Bet you get a job where it's by cronyism and abusing the system as well, which will make welfare queen's payments look like chump change."

[xmas74]

59. I'd like to shake their hand.

It's obvious that the young lady made up at least some of the facts. A card issued when Dukakis was in office would have long expired and would be invalid. There's no way it would even work.

Wait-weren't they still using food stamp books in 1991? I know in Missouri they still used them until the mid-90's. I worked in a convenience store that accepted them and I remember the loose food stamp bills. Why would someone have a food stamp card issued in 1991 if they were still using paper bills?

[unionworks]

38. Of course!

The poor and broken people living in the streets are responsible for all of Americas problems! (sarcasm)

[sarcasmo]

39. Walmart sells Lobster?

[sarcasmo]

46. Which is how the right media machine works.

Repeat a lie until it becomes a truth.

[friendly_iconoclast]

57. Well, maybe they did. Many, many supermarkets in New England sell lobsters.

I had forgotten that many WallyWorlds come with supermarkets, as most near me don't...

[Zalatix]

45. I happen to know Wal Mart sells lobsters.

At least the Wal Mart on the world where this woman lives. On Earth? Not so likely.

[Scuba]

47. Actually, in Maine, everyone sells lobstahs. Even gas stations. n/t

[rl6214]

54. Yes

[friendly_iconoclast]

56. Yeah, I forgot about the ones with the supermarkets attached.

And I live in eastern Massachusetts, where every Stop & Shop, Hannaford's and Shaw's/Star Market sells them...

[xmas74]

60. Our Walmart used to have a live lobster tank.

They removed it a few years ago during a renovation.

[AZ Progressive]

51. How DARE those welfare queens try to...

...be like the Banksters, Corporate Executives, Investors, and Wealthy Government Politicians in exploiting the system! Exploiting the system is for the 1%, not the 99% or the bottom 20%! They should just continue to suffer and not have any chance at a reprieve over their suffering and misery!

[madinmaryland]

53. So she wants to be fifty, single, and dating "DyNOmite". Yeah, that's really

something to aspire to.

[Puzzler]

61. I am a cab driver...

... and have driven welfare recipients to and from bars/liquor stores etc, BUT, BUT, BUT... I have driven many, many more from grocery stores after doing their MONTHLY grocery shop with their meager checks. Don't be fooled by the people who look like they may not need welfare checks, when the majority of recipients do spend what little money they have wisely.

[certainot]

64. i'll bet a good number of the people she hates listen to limbaugh

[MarianJack]

66. Amazing!

She manages to get every single 40 year old right wing talking point about welfare in her little tirade.

And the cabbage heads gobble it up.

PEACE!

[alp227]

67. She reminds me of this video I saw on TYT

Sometimes I feel like I want to leave this country after seeing what's going on in our culture and politics. And regarding CONS who complain about welfare recipients. Do they not understand how welfare programs were scaled back under a DEMOCRATIC president? Oh, she must've been one of those people egging on whoever said "LET HIM DIE" when Ron Paul was going to speak about the uninsured. And lobsters and jewelry? Those stories sound familiar.

[Scootaloo]

93. Yeah, good luck buying live seafood with an EBT card.

Speaking of. What are the odds that magnetic cards were in use in 1991? I don't know about there, but I know that in Alabama, food stamps came in literal stamp booklets until 1996 or so.

Jewelry, with welfare? Maybe. Hard to tell since you'd have to use cash to do so. TANF comes in E-check form, directly deposited into your bank account, after all. And, well I hate to break it to this lady, but Wal-Mart isn't exactly DeBeers or Tiffany's.

I'll bet she'd stare blankly if someone threw the terms like TANF and SNAP at her though. Or even WIC. They usually do, since to them "welfare" simply means "brown people being uppity." Ten bucks that's what she's doing there. "Ohmigaw, Becky, I saw that black lady buy a lobster! Welfare is totally out of hand!"

[MrMickeysMom]

96. The stupid is strong with this 5th year Senior...

I couldn't hang in there long enough to see if she had a major, or a point.

[Burgman]

70. Making fun of the poor. Helluva way to make a living.

But a prostitute is a prostitute no matter in which way on chooses to sell their soul/wares.

[crim son]

72. Welfare fraud exists, no question.

The problem with the Coulters of this world is that they use this fraud as an excuse to condemn the entire program, which, of course, is crap.

[Skip Intro]

82. yep. nt

[Fearless]

73. Impossible that that person was on welfare that long. Legally speaking.

[snort]

77. Look! A story about how some people showed up and

She hated them for who they were. Inspiring.

[tawadi]

78. Here is her photo

http://thecollegeconservative.com/christine-rousselle

[abelenkpe]

83. She needs to stop eating if she wants to be the next Ann coulter

Yeah that's right. I'm calling her fat.

[tawadi]

85. Hey

I wasn't going there.

[abelenkpe]

108. You're a better person than me

[Vanje]

109. She is not fat

She is a fascist.

She is not fat.

[abelenkpe]

115. Yeah? Maybe I've just lived in hollywood too long?

Her upper arms are larger than most women's thighs out here. But this is not a town full of normal healthy women for sure. Forgive me for being mean to the budding little fascist.

[Vanje]

116. People in Hollywood probably cant even shear a sheep!

This lass has sheep-shearers arms!

Its a good thing.......but shes a fascist.

[Muskypundit]

91. The red in her eyes is natural. Not from the cameras.

[secondwind]

106. The Baggers will fund her race for Senate in Delaware soon.........

[RockaFowler]

130. Oh no her minor is in French

She's one of those Socialist thinkers

[LynneSin]

79. One only gets to the Ann Coulter level because liberals bitch about them

Best to ignore this one and she'll go away just like the hundreds others who attempt to be the 'Next Ann Coulter'

Even Ann Coulter is less of 'Ann Coulter' - people realize that her books are nothing more than recycled crap of the previous books

[Skittles]

90. let me guess

this gal will also be gung-ho for war, while declining to serve her country

[Scootaloo]

92. well, given that the majority of her claims are likely utterly false, she's well on her way

[Lugnut]

94. I smell bull*hit.

It's all over these ridiculous assertions being made by Christine.

[Terra Alta]

95. I, too, am a Wal-mart cashier

and I think she's full of shit. I don't give a damn how customers are paying for their items; I get paid the same whether they're paying with a wad full of cash or with welfare/EBT cards. When I'm ringing someone up who is using any type of government assistance I am just grateful they are getting help.

I can only hope Ms. Rousselle fails to find future employment, and has to resort to using government assistance to survive. Karma can come back to bite her in the ass.

[Islandlife]

112. Is she lying?

So any unbelievable "news" articles are published. I don't know which ones are lies.

[Terra Alta]

113. she is definitely stretching the truth a bit.

Most people I've seen who are using any type of government assistance are buying essentials -- food, hygiene supplies, clothing, etc. Very few are buying high priced toys or electronics.

I've also seen a number of people on food stamps who buy low-cost items such as ramen noodles. Most on food stamps get a very limited amount and tend to stretch that amount as far as they can, so very few of them buy expensive food with EBT.

[eyewall]

97. No one would want to read her, her writing sucks.

She'd never get a contract with a publisher, her style is barely bad high school. She flat out lies, and she looks like a soulless middle class brat. Her best bet is the wingnuts' large colored text chain emails with a threat if you don't forward it.

[AlbertCat]

99. 2 things

Her anecdotal evidence means nothing.

If she wants to be Ann Colter, her mental capacity is in question... so who cares what she thinks went on at Wal-mart.

[LadyHawkAZ]

100. We haven't even got rid of the first one yet

also, is anyone but me suspicious of her "true" stories? It sounds like she's fishing for cash.

[mmonk]

104. The economic benefit of food stamps for every dollar spent is $1.73.

The economic benefit of the Bush tax cuts is 0.29 for every dollar.

[secondwind]

105. I didn't know Wal-Mart accepted WIC checks to pay for jewelry.... as for the lobster..

poor people are entitled to eat lobster...... If this REALLY happened, maybe it was holiday time.... who hasn't "gone overboard" during the holidays?

Maybe they bought the stuff to sell it for cash to pay their RENT or something.

I despise overly judgmental people.

[WhollyHeretic]

107. So Massachusetts is using the same welfare cards it was in 91? Holy crap people are stupid.

The whole thing is made up

[BiggJawn]

114. I'll bet she has never worked anywhere, much less Wally-World

And she flunked W131, creative writing. But that's OK, she's brunette, she's BUSTY, and her DADDY pays her bills! (battle cry of the Heiress Class)

Oh, my, Poor people yakking on cell phones. You can get an unlimited-minute phone at WW for $45 a month. My GF spends almost $60 a month for a landline, and that's with no long-distance calls (she thinks cellies are expensive toys). I dumped my LL when it hit $55 and have been averaging $35 a month for a pre-paid burn phone for the last 6 years.

Everybody "knows" somebody who's worked as a cashier who's had customers buying Filet Mignon and Beluga Caviar (even if their store doesn't carry such items)with food stamps.

Hell, Gingrich knows people who went to Hawaii on vacation and paid for it w/a EBT card.

They create bullshit tales like this because they know the Murrikan Sheeple are stupid and believe anything the nice people on Teeeeeee-Veeeeeeee tell them.

(fixed the hair colour)

[hifiguy]

119. Her parents must be SO proud.

I spent some time on General Assistance. I must have missed where I could have afforded a fancy phone and lobster on the $300/month I was getting.

What a little snot.

[Enrique]

122. omg toys!

poor kids shouldn't have any time to play with toys anyway, they should spend all their time cleaning rich kids' bathrooms.

[LynneSin]

123. If she wants to be the next Ann Coulter she needs people like us to whine about her

Best thing to do is ingore this idiot - she'll go away

[Fuzz]

124. Not surprised she's from Providence College.

Whitest campus I've ever experienced.

[Modern_Matthew]

125. The next class traitor. What a horribly disgusting young woman. nt

[HappyMe]

127. I smell bovine excrement.

The very same smell that accompanies the welfare queen in a fur coat driving a Cadillac story.

[Enrique]

129. I find the story plausible, by the way

people at all levels pull all sorts of scams.

This anecdote sounds like a composite of a number of complaints all service workers have experienced, conveniently packaged to make some political point, (badly, imo).