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GOP’s demonic new crusade:Right-wing zealots look for crueler ways to treat the poor like garbage
Salon ^ | May 25, 2015 | Joan Walsh

Posted on 05/25/2015 9:16:09 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife

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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Back in the 1970’s Nixon was ‘right wing’ and ‘extreme’ in the minds of the Left even as he cut deals with Communists in the Soviet Union and China plus the fake ‘peace agreement’ in Vietnam.

Nixon didn’t reverse the welfare state (”The Great Society”) enacted by Democrat Lyndon Johnson and signed off on the EPA and OSHA.

Tweaking welfare programs is what I see here, not their elimination with the Left overdramatizing the tweaking into some extreme act that it is not.

Political propaganda and the facts always differ, the propaganda machine that supports the Democrats calls tweaking welfare ‘right-wing’ and the propaganda machine that supports the Republicans tries to use the extreme propaganda of the Democrats as proof of their conservatism.

I’m not biting and liking someone or their policies because the Left demonizes them. They did this when Nixon was president and for the most part it was overkill. Nixon was not conservative, just portrayed as one.


21 posted on 05/25/2015 9:35:56 AM PDT by Nextrush ( FREEDOM IS EVERYBODY'S BUSINESS, DON'T BE PASTOR NIEMOLLER)
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To: usurper

You cant blame us that our ideas have never been put into actin. But, on the oth4er hand all of our political capitol went for the country club and big business types to be pigs at the trough. It is our fault for letting that happen.


22 posted on 05/25/2015 9:36:06 AM PDT by amnestynone (A big government conservative is just a corporatist who is not paying enough taxes.)
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To: dila813

More of the slow march to civil war.


23 posted on 05/25/2015 9:36:15 AM PDT by Crazieman (Article V or National Divorce. The only solutions now.)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Hey Joan!

It is you Libs who maintain your voters in oppressive poverty rather than lifting them up with meaningful jobs, where they may find private sector opportunity and escape the clutches of the left.


24 posted on 05/25/2015 9:39:21 AM PDT by G Larry (Obama Hates America, Israel, Capitalism, Freedom, and Christianity.)
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To: Crazieman
Wow. The incoherent screed of a stuck pig

Oh it's just a cut 'n paste. Walsh is an old Bolshevik, been writing this crap for decades. She said the same things in the 1970's.

She conveniently forgets that the jobs in the Clinton years happened after the GOP Congress cut taxes in 1995 and the Fed responded with lower rates, which finally broke loose the housing market. The Rapist had nothing to do with it, he was just forced to go along.

*Yawn* same old crap from her and Barbara Ehrenreich. Tens of millions of Third World desperately poor imported into the U.S. and she blames their poverty on the Evil Rich Whitey's.

Just crap.

25 posted on 05/25/2015 9:39:42 AM PDT by Regulator
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

“If you want more of something, subsidize it” - Ronald Reagan


26 posted on 05/25/2015 9:45:15 AM PDT by Dr. Thorne (The night is far spent, the day is at hand.- Romans 13:12)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Officers pose as potential food stamp buyers, arrest 2

http://wishtv.com/2015/05/23/officers-pose-as-potential-food-stamp-buyers-arrest-2/

JACKSON COUNTY, Ind. (WISH) — The Jackson County Sheriff’s Department arrested two Seymour residents within 20 minutes of receiving word of welfare fraud Friday.

The sheriff’s office was alerted that someone was using text messages to spread the word that food stamps were for sale for 50 cents on the dollar.

Posing as potential buyers, officers contacted the person selling the food stamp benefits. Officer Scott Davis, who has a background investigating welfare fraud, arranged to meet one of the suspects.

Police met up up with a woman and her boyfriend who were selling $150 worth of food stamps for $75.

Misty F. Woods, 34, and Joshua Turner, 33, were charged with aiding, inducing or causing welfare fraud, a class A misdemeanor.

Fentanyl patches were found on Woods.

Documents on Turner indicated he had received the food stamps five days earlier.


27 posted on 05/25/2015 9:50:58 AM PDT by digger48
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GOP’s demonic new crusade:Right-wing zealots look for crueler ways to treat the poor like garbage

A little advice. Whenever you see the name "Salon", you need to remain cognizant of the fact that they are insane rabid idiots, on which much time should not be wasted.

They are literally crack pot loons, and the less traffic driven to their site, the better for the world.

28 posted on 05/25/2015 9:57:12 AM PDT by DiogenesLamp
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To: DiogenesLamp

You are correct and their outrageous headlines are getting longer and longer.


29 posted on 05/25/2015 9:59:49 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: Clint N. Suhks

“This commie moron conveniently forgot BJ Clinton was riding the dot-com bubble that burst leaving Bush his recession.”

I believe that the 1990’s was the best decade this country had in 50 years, and who knows (if ever) things will be like that again. I feel sorry for the generation who grew up in that decade because it’s going to be hard for times in the future to measure up against that. It wasn’t Clinton so much as it was a technological explosion (the Internet among OTHER things). But other that the...you know what...Clinton was actually a fairly good centrist president.


30 posted on 05/25/2015 10:00:53 AM PDT by The Antiyuppie ("When small men cast long shadows, then it is very late in the day".)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Replace “Right-Wingers” with “Jews” and you’d have the Volkischer Beobachter.


31 posted on 05/25/2015 10:02:30 AM PDT by dfwgator
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32 posted on 05/25/2015 10:03:05 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Be a blessing to a stranger today for some have entertained angels unaware)
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To: digger48; All

Just as we have done in the past, we dismiss this kind of hyperbolic BS memeage as so stupid, that no one will believe it.

And yet, Barack Obama got elected, TWICE, using this exact kind of garbage.

Just to note Salon’s traffic and coverage, doesn’t include mobile:
Engagement
On Desktop, in April, 2015
estimated visits 18.2M
Time on site 00:05:19
Page views 2.30
Bounce rate 74.22%

And Free Republic, for the same period:
Engagement On Desktop, in April, 2015
estimated visits 3M
Time on site 00:05:27
Page views 3.08
Bounce rate 62.67%

I’m sure someone else can interpret these stats better than I can, but it sure seems as Salon is useful at spreading a meme.


33 posted on 05/25/2015 10:07:24 AM PDT by tcrlaf (They told me it could never happen in America. And then it did....)
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Sorry, forgot to include the links:
http://www.similarweb.com/website/freerepublic.com

http://www.similarweb.com/website/salon.com


34 posted on 05/25/2015 10:14:17 AM PDT by tcrlaf (They told me it could never happen in America. And then it did....)
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To: tcrlaf

You’re right.


35 posted on 05/25/2015 10:16:00 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Joan Walsh projecting again.


36 posted on 05/25/2015 10:22:30 AM PDT by CPT Clay
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

For the most part, it’s the poor who treat themselves like garbage, that’s why they’re poor.


37 posted on 05/25/2015 10:23:59 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: dila813
I like it though, some of my liberal friends who read these will be put off, because they will know this is crazy talk and start to doubt the author.

Not likely. They almost never do.

38 posted on 05/25/2015 10:30:28 AM PDT by Maceman
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To: Crazieman
Wow. The incoherent screed of a stuck pig.

Thanks ... thought it was just me. lol ...

I read the entire stream-of-consciousness hyperventilation and couldn't figure out what in heck the author was rambling on about.

40 posted on 05/25/2015 10:40:59 AM PDT by Mr_Moonlight
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