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Topic: TIME Executive Editor: ´We´re All Welfare Queens´ and ´Socialists From the Day We´re Born´ |
TIME Executive Editor: ´We´re All Welfare Queens´ and ´Socialists From the Day We´re Born´
NewsBusters, by Noel Sheppard
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Posted By:KarenJ1, 3/4/2013 9:21:14 AM
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| "We´re all socialists from the day we´re born. You know, you don´t have to be poor or unemployed to be on Welfare. We´re all at the trough. We´re all Welfare queens." So said TIME magazine executive editor Michael Duffy on the syndicated Chris Matthews Show Sunday (video follows with transcript and commentary): CHRIS MATTHEWS, HOST: The word we never say besides entitlements, the even worse word is socialism. But in effect, once you’re 65 in this country when it comes to health, you´re guaranteed to be taken care of.
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Comments: Really?? There was a time when you could laugh and cast comments like these aside. Now it is frightening to realize idiots like him are really serious. It´s horrifying there are so many leftists who actually believe these twisted, perverse lies.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
Coy860, 3/4/2013 9:39:42 AM (No. 9207231)
When the Welfare Queens contribute toward their welfare for 44 years, then they can start collecting their benefit.s/
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
grambo, 3/4/2013 9:39:55 AM (No. 9207232)
A man who has been paid all his life without ever having produced anything of value, and all your peers are the same, it´s not surprising that you think we´re all on welfare.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
neanderthal, 3/4/2013 9:46:10 AM (No. 9207244)
Boy, do I hate having to admit that I agree with libs like this guy, but the fact is that it´s a very rare individual who is not getting a government check of some kind; entitlement, subsidy, etc or a check from a private source that, within five layers of checks, is also getting a government check. This country will continue to lean farther and farther to starboard until it simply goes belly up, unless we get rid of hundreds of thousands of government chair warmers and government checks stop flying around like confetti on New Years Eve.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
LouD, 3/4/2013 10:12:34 AM (No. 9207304)
#3, aren´t you a little mixed up? Starboard is to the right, and I see no signs of the country moving that way. As for entitlements, I guess you call something that you have paid for (SS) government largesse? As for medicare, I have had numerous pay slips that show money taken from my check for that, and now that I am old enough to be on medicare, every month money is taken from my Social Security check to pay for that. (BTW, my SS check is so small it hardly covers the amount spent on groceries each month. I rely on investments and a pension to survive, neither of which the government provides.)
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Teleologicus, 3/4/2013 10:19:42 AM (No. 9207318)
This kind of careless, almost incoherent reasoning is, or ought to be, extraordinary coming from a high school, still less a college graduate.
All taxpayers who receive Federal(i.e. taxpayer)funds of any kind or for any purpose are socialists and Welfare Queens?
That would seem more than a little extreme. Is it an attempt to establish moral equivalence? Defining deviancy down(or up)?
One wonders what a drug screen would reveal about people capable of thinking(!) in such a manner. Could chronic cannabis intoxication account for such confusion? I wish this could be investigated. It´s just a hunch - but if there is anything to it, it could explain a lot that otherwise doesn´t make sense.
But in any case, they shore ain´t learnin´ them kids nothing in school no more.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
velox, 3/4/2013 10:51:38 AM (No. 9207392)
When 50% of the population takes out more goods and services than they produce, its impossible for some to not produce more than they take. Those of us that started working as kids and paid into the "system" our entire lives are not welfare queens. We are the producers that made it possible for millions and millions to do absolutly no work their entire lives. When we start to recover some of our past savings back the left wants to say the government is giving us something.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
stablemoney, 3/4/2013 11:29:48 AM (No. 9207505)
Fire Duffey. He is a fool. There a few of us left that are responsible, who work, pay our bills, raise our families. Alas, we also pick up the tab for those that are irresponsible as that is what socialism is - we are in it together, we are partners, -- that means we get the tab for their bad judgments and irresponsibility. Thanks Duffey. Hope you have a miserable socialist life.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
StephaniePlum, 3/4/2013 11:37:01 AM (No. 9207536)
I don´t know where people come up with the argument that Seniors on Medicare get FREE health care. I´m paying Medicare premiums that are almost exactly the same amounts, perhaps higher, as the premiums I was paying for my private coverage before I turned 65. So I don´t exactly consider that being FREE.
This year One of the premiums went up 150% !! Fortunately I had changed that coverage to a different provider during the time that the government ALLOWED me to do so. I was notified of the intended increase after my rollover period had passed, which means if I had not made the change during the ALLOWED time period I would have been stuck with paying the 150% increased premium for the entire year, until my next ALLOWED rollover period.
Medicare is definitely not free ... and Seniors have to pay attention so as not to be locked into these arbitrary (Obamacare-caused) expenses. /SP/
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
capt scurvey, 3/4/2013 12:04:56 PM (No. 9207630)
This attitude goes a long way in explaining his publication´s popularity...
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
lostinmassachusetts, 3/4/2013 12:35:12 PM (No. 9207722)
I´ve got news for people like Christ Matthews who use Social Security to defend welfare dependency. First of all, except for people with phony disabilities and foreigners who are able scam the system to get benefits, most SS recipients worked all their lives and paid into the system only to receive the meager benefits they are given. Moreover, the average welfare family in the U.S. receives over $60,000 in annual benefits compared to about $14,700 for those on social security. Any fair-minded person will acknowledge that this is unfair, and it is disgusting for the ´progressives´ to use this argument.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
mickturn, 3/4/2013 12:41:56 PM (No. 9207736)
No moron, a huge majority of us WORKED for everything we have and we detest YOU and your cabal of takers who think it´s ok to steal from others...
Envy, Greed, Theft...sound famaliar?
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
JimS, 3/4/2013 12:48:30 PM (No. 9207752)
I am 63, and have NEVER yet received one thin dime from the US government. No welfare, medicaid, medicare, food stamps, social security, unemployment, tuition assistance, VA benefits--Nothing. The only checks I ever got from the government were my tax refunds--probably 30 years ago--where I had too much tax withheld. My older siblings and parents...same thing.
And I´m sure there are millions of people just like me in this regard. So, Noel, how does that make me a socialist?
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
toddh, 3/4/2013 2:05:06 PM (No. 9207884)
Giving credit to Socialism for everything people do together. Roads are socialism, etc. Entirely ignoring the difference between free association and government coercion.
#5 - Weed would produce something more musical. This is the acausal babbling of cocainated "sky talking." Or just a lifetime stuck on stupid.
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