[zendari]

I thought liberals "cared" about the children.

[Cheburashka]

I thought liberals "cared" about the children.

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Con men often pose as caring about this or that as part of a ploy to relieve the marks of their hard-earned cash.

In this case the marks are us, through a defrauding of the government program.

The plight of the children was just a tool to be used to pry away the loot. Nothing unusual about that.