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That no-good useless, worthless bastard:
Romney's Father was on Welfare
BuzzFeed finds an amazing 1962 video in which Lenore Romney talks about why her husband George would be a good governor of Michigan in part because he was once "on relief -- welfare relief -- for the first years of his life."
Here's the video:
http://politicalwire.com/archives/2012/09/19/romneys_father_was_on_welfare.html#050320a
NightWatcher
(39,343 posts)otohara
(24,135 posts)WTF?
Bluenorthwest
(45,319 posts)Mexican revolution happened, they turned tail and ran from it. So they came back to the US as 'revolutionary refugees' and were fully supported by the tax payers of the very nation they had abandoned just a few years before. We, the people, fed, clothed, housed and gave them pocket money. They took full advantage of the social safety nets in a nation they had once rejected.
otohara
(24,135 posts)history lesson.
I had never heard the term before, but now I see where Rmoney also referred to themselves at "war refugees".
Spazito
(50,514 posts)"parasites" according to Mary Matalin.
"There are makers and takers, there are producers and there are parasites," she said. "Americans can distinguish between those who have produced and paid in through no fault of their own and because of Obama's horrible polcies who cannot get a job or are underemployed. That's what the campaign is about."
http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entry/mary-matalin-thanks-to-romney-we-can-single
AnneD
(15,774 posts)the gift that keeps on giving.