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<blockquote data-quote="PiedmontSteward" data-source="post: 1181759" data-attributes="member: 42270"><p>Ronald Reagan did a great job of creating the "welfare queen" myth in his speeches:</p><p></p><p>"She has eighty names, thirty addresses, twelve Social Security cards and is collecting veteran's benefits on four non-existing deceased husbands. And she is collecting Social Security on her cards. She's got Medicaid, getting food stamps, and she is collecting welfare under each of her names. Her tax-free cash income is over $150,000." (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welfare_queen" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welfare_queen</a>)</p><p></p><p>The person he cited was an mishmash of multiple people with grossly exaggerated cases of fraud and abuse, but similar sham stories have always worked because nothing pisses off the working man more than someone who gets the same thing he gets without any effort. A lot of the career UPSers have little idea what it's actually like on the job market today, especially in places with high unemployment. I've heard 20+ year feeder drivers cheering on cuts to unemployment benefits when they haven't had to worry about being laid off for over a decade. They didn't pull themselves up by their own bootstraps; they benefited from a labor union representing them. The overwhelming vast majority of the workforce isn't getting 4-5+ paid vacations a year (or even a single paid vacation a year) with a defined pension plan and health insurance without a premium.</p><p>[SUP]<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welfare_queen#cite_note-4" target="_blank"></a></p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welfare_queen#cite_note-4" target="_blank"></a>[/SUP]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="PiedmontSteward, post: 1181759, member: 42270"] Ronald Reagan did a great job of creating the "welfare queen" myth in his speeches: "She has eighty names, thirty addresses, twelve Social Security cards and is collecting veteran's benefits on four non-existing deceased husbands. And she is collecting Social Security on her cards. She's got Medicaid, getting food stamps, and she is collecting welfare under each of her names. Her tax-free cash income is over $150,000." ([url]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welfare_queen[/url]) The person he cited was an mishmash of multiple people with grossly exaggerated cases of fraud and abuse, but similar sham stories have always worked because nothing pisses off the working man more than someone who gets the same thing he gets without any effort. A lot of the career UPSers have little idea what it's actually like on the job market today, especially in places with high unemployment. I've heard 20+ year feeder drivers cheering on cuts to unemployment benefits when they haven't had to worry about being laid off for over a decade. They didn't pull themselves up by their own bootstraps; they benefited from a labor union representing them. The overwhelming vast majority of the workforce isn't getting 4-5+ paid vacations a year (or even a single paid vacation a year) with a defined pension plan and health insurance without a premium. [SUP][URL="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welfare_queen#cite_note-4"] [/URL][/SUP] [/QUOTE]
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