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In reply to the discussion: Clerk loses job for refusing to let customer use welfare money to pay for cigarettes [View all]sabrina 1
(62,325 posts)lives, even if it is a cigarette or a beer, when the wealthiest and biggest screw-ups who toppled our economy, get bailed out with tax dollars, use it to reward themselves with huge bonuses, are not held accountable for their corruption, and no one even asks what they are spending our tax dollars on?
I would go for some restrictions on how tax dollars used to help people out so long as those restrictions were equally applied to Wall Street Bankers.
Right wingers don't want to ask corrupt Wall Street Bankers what they spent our handouts to them, on. But whenever I have a conversation like this with one of them, I always ask them to explain why we do not apply the same standards to those taking Corporate Welfare. And I always mention drugs and alcohol and ask them is what they want their tax dollars to be spent on. It doesn't shut them up, but it puts them on the defensive for a change.