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"Welfare queens are often lazy and have an undeserved sense of entitlement to government handouts." ... "The concept of a "welfare queen" has become a sort of a dog-whistle for race-hustling socialists who seek to play the race card and gain an electoral advantage. Someone needs to let them know that Linda Taylor was white." - RationalWiki
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- 2019/10/29 [L..T] The Long Shadow of the 'Welfare Queen' “When Ronald Reagan and his advisors wanted to undermine the very institution of social programs, he turned to a news story out of Chicago – the tale of one Linda Taylor, who'd bilked the government benefits system out of so much money she was dubbed the "welfare queen."”
- 2004/09/01 [L..T] Operation Coffeecup: Ronald Reagan's Effort to Prevent the Enactment of Medicare Ronald Reagan may have crystallized, in the minds of Republican strategists, the political ability of popular myth to be more powerful than the truth – as exemplified by his well-documented history of working against social programs (Medicare, Social Security) while convincingly denying it in debates with Jimmy Carter.