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(47,953 posts)Especially if 'those people' would be made to suffer more.
tclambert
(11,087 posts)JaneyVee
(19,877 posts)ffr
(22,671 posts)they'd have huge advertising budgets, just like corporate welfare recipients and they'd be tilting the playing field with misinformation too.
Well maybe not, but I thought I bear that out.
Rozlee
(2,529 posts)1999. I told him about the 83 billion spent on oil subsidies yearly that added up to about a trillion since 1999 and how climate studies were a drop in the bucket in comparison and that Exxon alone had made 44 billion in profits in 2012, so why did the oil companies need subsidies anyway? They exemplify the saying of straining at gnats and swallowing camels. I can't even begin to understand their flawed logic.
Divine Discontent
(21,056 posts)if that doesn't disgust you about how nasty the anti-food stamp crowd is over this, nothing will!
http://www.zazzle.com/shutdown_the_gop_by_voting_in_2014_government-128195183613839642?rf=238107662556833486
sakabatou
(42,174 posts)Please tell me that this is satire.
davidn3600
(6,342 posts)...is how so many on the right claim that welfare abuse is some major national crisis. Like that idiot John Stossel on FOX News who thinks anyone who has air conditioning and on food stamps is scamming the system.
That's the compassionate conservatism for ya...
I want my $870 back! Yeah, that's right, what I spend on corporate welfare! I could really use that money about now!
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,040 posts)"movement", not "moment".
Carelessness like that reduces credibility and adds distractions. People think that it has been tossed off and is not serious.
It's a shame because it is an excellent perspective on the issue and makes good use of irony.