The Real Welfare Queens (Bill Maher)

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http://www.real-time-with-bill-maher-blog.com/real-time-with-bill-maher-blog/2013/10/3/the-real-welfare-queens.html

Tea Party Congressman Stephen Fincher of Tennessee voted to cut $40 billion out of the food stamp program because, according to the Bible, "The one who is unwilling to work shall not eat."

According to The New York Times, over the last 13 years, Fincher personally collected $3.5 million in government handouts for his farm. If he really wants to be a good Christian loyal to his Bible, shouldn't he go on a hunger strike? This fucker got $70,000 from taxpayers for his farm last year alone, plus his $174,000 salary, which he gets for doing nothing -- so he's on the dole for $244,000 a year. The most you can get on food stamps is a few hundred bucks a month.

On Facebook, North Dakota Congressman Kevin Cramer wrote the same: "If anyone is not willing to work, let him not eat." So, apparently, this is a thing in the food stamp debate -- reciting asshole Bible quotes. Just because a guy wrote it two thousand years ago, does that make him any less of a prick?

Cramer is the at-large delegate for North Dakota, which got $10.4 billion in farm subsidy handouts from the federal government from 1995 to 2012, the most of any congressional district in the country. The audacity of this man: he is the panhandler for the biggest welfare queens in the country, and he casts himself as a welfare hardliner.

North Dakota? It's got the lowest unemployment rate in the country. It's the Saudi Arabia of shale, in the midst of an economic boom that's not ending any time soon. Why are they on the government gravy train for hundreds of millions of dollars a year?

It's obvious what's going on here, isn't it? Conservatives don't count welfare that goes to white people as welfare. Cramer's district is 89.8% white. So they're not lazy, shiftless welfare queens; they're hardworking Americans.

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1. These lovely congressmen should just

Fork over their paychecks during the shutdown. Actually, for the whole year. If they don't work, they don't eat (sucks to quote something that can be thrown right back at you)