EE PatronNov 14th 2012, 20:11:54
fyi h4xor, welfare fraud is primarily a Republican fiction that preys on people's stereotypes to turn them against the system. right-wing myths have been passed around for decades, ronald reagan is particularly famous for spreading outright falsehoods, here's a funny one:
3/1/82 Sen. Bob Packwood (R‑OR) reveals that President Reagan frequently offers up transparently fictional anecdotes as if they were real. “We’ve got a $120 billion deficit coming,” says Packwood, “and the President says, ‘You know, a young man, went into a grocery store and he had an orange in one hand and a bottle of vodka in the other, and he paid for the orange with food stamps and he took the change and paid for the vodka. That’s what’s wrong.’ And we just shake our heads.”
3/24/82 Agriculture official Mary C. Jarratt tells Congress her department has been unable to document President Reagan’s horror stories of food stamp abuse, pointing out that the change from a food stamp purchase is limited to 99 cents. “It’s not possible to buy a bottle of vodka with 99 cents,” she says. Deputy White House press secretary Peter Roussel says Reagan wouldn’t tell these stories “unless he thought they were accurate.”
he would just completely make up stuff all the time without giving a fluff. one of his more infamous inventions was the "welfare queen" which, though entirely fictional, continues to color people's perceptions to this day.
The term "welfare queen" is most often associated with Ronald Reagan who brought the idea to a national audience. During his 1976 presidential campaign, Reagan would tell the story of a woman from Chicago's South Side who was arrested for welfare fraud:
"She has eighty names, thirty addresses, twelve Social Security cards and is collecting veteran's benefits on four non-existing deceased husbands. And she is collecting Social Security on her cards. She's got Medicaid, getting food stamps, and she is collecting welfare under each of her names. Her tax-free cash income is over $150,000."
Since Reagan never named a particular woman, the description can be viewed as an example of dramatic hyperbole. Critics Paul Krugman and Mark J. Green have argued that the story grossly exaggerates a minor case of welfare fraud. In 1976, the New York Times reported that a woman from Chicago, Linda Taylor, was charged with using four aliases and of cheating the government out of $8,000. She appeared again in the newspaper while the Illinois Attorney General continued investigating her case. The woman was ultimately found guilty of "welfare fraud and perjury" in the Circuit Court of Cook County, Illinois.
In response to Reagan's use of the term, Susan Douglas, a professor of communication studies at the University of Michigan, writes:
"He specialized in the exaggerated, outrageous tale that was almost always unsubstantiated, usually false, yet so sensational that it merited repeated recounting… And because his ‘examples’ of welfare queens drew on existing stereotypes of welfare cheats and resonated with news stories about welfare fraud, they did indeed gain real traction."
note the stark differences between the myth and the reality: some woman with 80 names raking in $150k a year unchecked vs. a woman that scammed $8k who was charged and found guilty, lol. here's a snopes article about another bit of lies and propaganda that still get passed around today
http://www.snopes.com/politics/taxes/grapes.asp
here's a good article that expands on this beginning where i leeave off
http://womenslawproject.wordpress.com/...y-receives-tanf-benefits/
3/1/82 Sen. Bob Packwood (R‑OR) reveals that President Reagan frequently offers up transparently fictional anecdotes as if they were real. “We’ve got a $120 billion deficit coming,” says Packwood, “and the President says, ‘You know, a young man, went into a grocery store and he had an orange in one hand and a bottle of vodka in the other, and he paid for the orange with food stamps and he took the change and paid for the vodka. That’s what’s wrong.’ And we just shake our heads.”
3/24/82 Agriculture official Mary C. Jarratt tells Congress her department has been unable to document President Reagan’s horror stories of food stamp abuse, pointing out that the change from a food stamp purchase is limited to 99 cents. “It’s not possible to buy a bottle of vodka with 99 cents,” she says. Deputy White House press secretary Peter Roussel says Reagan wouldn’t tell these stories “unless he thought they were accurate.”
he would just completely make up stuff all the time without giving a fluff. one of his more infamous inventions was the "welfare queen" which, though entirely fictional, continues to color people's perceptions to this day.
Originally posted by wikipedia:
The term "welfare queen" is most often associated with Ronald Reagan who brought the idea to a national audience. During his 1976 presidential campaign, Reagan would tell the story of a woman from Chicago's South Side who was arrested for welfare fraud:
"She has eighty names, thirty addresses, twelve Social Security cards and is collecting veteran's benefits on four non-existing deceased husbands. And she is collecting Social Security on her cards. She's got Medicaid, getting food stamps, and she is collecting welfare under each of her names. Her tax-free cash income is over $150,000."
Since Reagan never named a particular woman, the description can be viewed as an example of dramatic hyperbole. Critics Paul Krugman and Mark J. Green have argued that the story grossly exaggerates a minor case of welfare fraud. In 1976, the New York Times reported that a woman from Chicago, Linda Taylor, was charged with using four aliases and of cheating the government out of $8,000. She appeared again in the newspaper while the Illinois Attorney General continued investigating her case. The woman was ultimately found guilty of "welfare fraud and perjury" in the Circuit Court of Cook County, Illinois.
In response to Reagan's use of the term, Susan Douglas, a professor of communication studies at the University of Michigan, writes:
"He specialized in the exaggerated, outrageous tale that was almost always unsubstantiated, usually false, yet so sensational that it merited repeated recounting… And because his ‘examples’ of welfare queens drew on existing stereotypes of welfare cheats and resonated with news stories about welfare fraud, they did indeed gain real traction."
note the stark differences between the myth and the reality: some woman with 80 names raking in $150k a year unchecked vs. a woman that scammed $8k who was charged and found guilty, lol. here's a snopes article about another bit of lies and propaganda that still get passed around today
http://www.snopes.com/politics/taxes/grapes.asp
here's a good article that expands on this beginning where i leeave off
http://womenslawproject.wordpress.com/...y-receives-tanf-benefits/
Originally posted by Mr. Titanium:
Watch your mouth boy, I have never been accused of cheating on any server nor deleted before you just did right there.