She has a valid point.
The champagne & lobster donor crowd has no problem getting Republicans and Democrats to sign a discharge petition to reopen the Export-Import Bank.
Taxpayer-funded welfare for wealthy corporation isn’t considered a luxury.
But people literally living from month to month, they’re the ones disparaged and accused of ripping off taxpayers.
If welfare were ended tomorrow, it wouldn’t make a dent in our deficit.
I understand we live in a world where money can buy influence and favors in high places.
It doesn’t mean I consider it just and for some people, redistribution is fine as long as it goes to them.
I mean people who won’t exactly starve if the Ex-Im Bank isn’t reopened.
Those of us who looked down on are told that’s needed more than welfare.
That says a lot more about the character of our society than it says about whether people abuse the system - but let’s at least make sure the same standard applies to rich and poor alike.
Ted Cruz stated on Hannity several weeks ago that if we cut some of the welfare for the “poor” we also have got to cut it for the elites.....I’m all in...