Louie Gohmert: I became a congressman to stop single moms from getting welfare checks
By David Edwards
Thursday, January 9, 2014 11:12 EST
Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX) revealed on Thursday that he had become a congressman because he was outraged that single women were having as many as 15 babies and getting welfare checks.
“If it weren’t for the policies in this War on Poverty declared 50 years ago, it may well be that I would not have ever run for Congress,” Gohmert said during a Wednesday night speech on the House floor. “Because what got me thinking about it first as a state district judge back in Texas was seeing more and more young women, single women coming before me — single moms — charged with welfare fraud.”
The Texas Republican said that women discovered that “the government will send you a check for every baby you have out of wedlock.”
“One women had had 15 kids, didn’t even know where they all were, that was the most that I ever dealt with,” Gohmert explained. “It began to really eat away with me that in the 60s the federal government, desiring to help poor moms who were dealing with deadbeat dads, decided, ‘We’ll help, we’ll give a check for every child you can have out of wedlock.’”
“The War on Poverty has been a disaster,” he insisted. “Why do the children have to suffer for the ignorance and stupidity of the government and those who meant well but just did stupid things? It’s tragic.”
Watch this video from C-SPAN, broadcast Jan. 8, 2013.
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/01/09/louie-gohmert-i-became-a-congressman-to-stop-single-moms-from-getting-welfare-checks/
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hundred dollars a month.
Have you ever been responsible for a baby? This is not that you put it in a corner, run to the bank with the check and forget about it.
You have to feed him/her (hereafter referred to as "it"
, change it, calm it, stop it from crying, etc.
You have to do this for YEARS and after that you have them around your house and you have to feed them and put up with them.
Trust me, I love children but this is where "Gomer" (no insult intended for our beloved Jim Nabors) loses it.
He thinks women would go through 9 months of pregnancy, endure a birth and have responsibility for the child for years and years for a few extra dollars a year?
He is truly stupid.
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All I said was Gohmert finally said what they true intentions were all along.
Oops, my bad I misread your response.
figure out what I said to piss them off. I'm legally blind & have a degenerative disease so help me out if I misinterpreted.
they were commenting on the OP, not what you said. Accidents happen.
They eat up this right wing horseshit in E Texas.
He's not my Congresscretin but his district borders mine. My rep is Joe Barton, oil company whore. 
Children need to be fed regardless of who their parents are. And I bet he's a pro-life hypocrite.
"You're a fetus, we care about you, you're fucked once you're born! No Head Start, no food stamps" -- George Carlin, RIP
