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Originally Posted by flere-imsaho
Wasn't one of the rallying cries of the Tea Party (back in the days of its formation): "Keep your government hands out of my Medicare?"
Those folks, and the rednecks on disability for non-disabling ailments are the people I think of when I think of people feeling entitled to the taxes I pay.
Maybe it's just my personal experience. When I lived & worked in Chicago I had a team that included many black people from the south side, and their stories, and their families' stories were ones of hard work, self-sufficiency, and, dare I say it "bootstraps".
Now that I'm back in Maine I know far too many white people who are content to live off the government teat based on mystery ailments while at the same time being huge supporters of Cruz or Trump and vitriolic opponents of anyone left of center-right.
We've been fed a narrative of black "welfare queens" by the GOP since Reagan. I'm sure examples exist. But it's time to realize there are plenty of other people out there feeding off the system, and a very large number of them are white and die-hard Republicans.
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We have ALL been fed narratives of varying degrees. I'm perfectly okay with leaving race out of it.