Remember the “welfare queen”? Reagan literally invented that, there was no such woman, he just made up a woman living like nobility on government “handouts”, and even though it was all shown to be a sham, the right still uses that phrase.
“I don’t care that it’s fake. It still pisses me off!”
Edit: My comment was drunk and hyperbolic, please see below comment for clarification
Reagan literally invented that, there was no such woman
There was one woman, specifically, who was identified, arrested, prosecuted, and imprisoned. Reagan’s media team then generalized the singular incident into a massive national conspiracy by an entire ethnic demographic.
Remember the “welfare queen”? Reagan literally invented that, there was no such woman, he just made up a woman living like nobility on government “handouts”, and even though it was all shown to be a sham, the right still uses that phrase.
“I don’t care that it’s fake. It still pisses me off!”
Edit: My comment was drunk and hyperbolic, please see below comment for clarification
There was one woman, specifically, who was identified, arrested, prosecuted, and imprisoned. Reagan’s media team then generalized the singular incident into a massive national conspiracy by an entire ethnic demographic.
You are absolutely right and I misremembered. Thanks for the correction!
It’s better that everybody should suffer than to have one person cheat the system.
Better to execute the criminals and sometimes a few innocents because justice must be served at every cost.
Well, better that most people suffer than some people pay taxes