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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Let's take a welfare who gets $2,500 a month in all sorts of welfare goodies to support her and her four kids (all by different baby daddies of course).

That runs up to $30,000 a year.

Let's say you need one fatcat bureaucrat making $70,000 in total compensation to manage 10 welfare queens.

So each welfare queen sucks up $37,000 in taxpayer dollars a year. Hell, let's make it $45,000 just to be generous and account for the Obama phones and other things they are getting.

Even if there were one million welfare queens taking the max in benefits, that'd add up to $45 billion a year, or what, ~8% of the Pentagon's budget (if you count any lingering Iraq+Afghanistan costs)? [/quote]

Yea, but this welfare queen stereotype is a small % of welfare recipients.  AND there is a limit on benefits that has been in place since welfare reform during the Clinton administration.  This is the stuff I am talking about!  Tea Partiers latch on to one stereotype and extrapolate that to everyone needing assistance.  Approx 39% of welfare recipients are White.  40% are AA.   I would bet that when you say welfare queen, you are not talking about a White woman in Kansas with 4 kids.  And those liberal  :wink: "strongholds" of Kentucky, Alabama, Mississippi and South Carolina have more people on welfare than people working. [/quote]

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