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Major Nikon

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14. Why on earth would someone make that up?
Sat Jul 28, 2012, 09:44 PM
Jul 2012

You can go to most any wingnut website and find as many "welfare queen" stories as you want. I'm sure most or all of them are a work of pure fiction (like Raygun's), or are greatly exaggerated.

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Thanks for the link to that incredibly well-stated article. DebJ Jul 2012 #1
Me too. Mz Pip Jul 2012 #6
Let them drink and forget their poverty, and remember their misery no more. (Proverbs 31:7) part man all 86 Jul 2012 #2
Thank you for that one. I have a good use for that one. Lochloosa Jul 2012 #25
Hell, if I worked at Walmart I'd have bought a case of beer. smirkymonkey Jul 2012 #3
Case? I'd buy the fucking keg!! Initech Jul 2012 #11
If you worked at Wal-Mart, you couldn't afford to rent a keg Scootaloo Jul 2012 #27
Nothing worse than the smug middle-class person who does everything they can Zoeisright Jul 2012 #4
It would be so nice that this middle class ass gets a taste of what a working poor family southernyankeebelle Jul 2012 #8
This is just made up. Who exactly condemned a Walmart employee for buying beer? TheManInTheMac Jul 2012 #5
Amongst my friends and me, we've been discussing this topic lately. YellowRubberDuckie Jul 2012 #10
Thing is, there is no indication in this fable that the Walmart greeter is receiving any kind of TheManInTheMac Jul 2012 #13
Odds Of It Are Pretty Good, Sir The Magistrate Jul 2012 #19
I admit that I just skimmed the article. But I saw nowhere where the persons A Simple Game Jul 2012 #23
It figures that OK would force state employees to read that hack's book Major Nikon Jul 2012 #16
I don't know anything about the book or the author. YellowRubberDuckie Jul 2012 #34
She's a hack that sells thinly veiled racism Major Nikon Jul 2012 #40
"Bridges Out of Poverty" is a steaming pile of crap. Gormy Cuss Jul 2012 #17
It's much worse than that Major Nikon Jul 2012 #21
Sometimes what we "see with our own eyes" Tsiyu Jul 2012 #24
Watched the person in the Hummer walk into our office and apply and get food stamps. YellowRubberDuckie Jul 2012 #35
Really Tsiyu Jul 2012 #41
They don't... YellowRubberDuckie Jul 2012 #42
I see Tsiyu Aug 2012 #43
I didn't necessarily say there was fraud going on there.... YellowRubberDuckie Aug 2012 #44
Why on earth would someone make that up? Major Nikon Jul 2012 #14
Way to completely miss the point. 99Forever Jul 2012 #33
Must be nice to live such a sheltered middle class life. Odin2005 Jul 2012 #38
That Is Spot On, Ma'am: Thank You For Sharing It The Magistrate Jul 2012 #7
A friend told me a long time ago Mopar151 Jul 2012 #29
The poor should spend their money on something useful..like a dressage horse. Tierra_y_Libertad Jul 2012 #9
Too tough and stringy. Ikonoklast Jul 2012 #12
Like this gem that's floating around Facebook... AynRandCollectedSS Jul 2012 #15
Your counter-meme is the truth! Risen Demon Jul 2012 #18
That's probably one of, if not the best blog I have ever seen. No I am not Jane Devin. Monk06 Jul 2012 #20
+1000 Kennah Jul 2012 #22
Too many un-Christian "Christians" believe that being poor is a sin. baldguy Jul 2012 #26
Well Said panzerfaust Jul 2012 #28
I saw this on my friends FB page and had to post it Klukie Jul 2012 #30
What sort of an awful nation have.. 99Forever Jul 2012 #31
It's amazing how much hatred people show toward poor people gollygee Jul 2012 #32
Welcome to my life. Odin2005 Jul 2012 #36
A society wide "Poor House" exists in this country... WCGreen Jul 2012 #37
That was a great read Lifelong Protester Jul 2012 #39
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