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    11 days ago

    The exaggeration or outright lying about welfare and social nets for political gain has roots back to the 60s. Reagan used the already created term “welfare queen” to disable even more help. Far easier to taint the whole thing than to improve fraud detection or shudder let the very small percentage of fraud exist while you try to help as many people as possible.

    Republicans hate people. It’s as simple as that.