If people migrating to this country are so turned off by your party maybe you should as yourselves why.
Our party doesn't promise them free shit.
Bullshit.
What free shit do Republican promise illegals?
Well, there's yer problem.
Only a liberal turd would regard declining to promise free shit as a "problem."
Republicans' "free stuff" gripe is perpetuating a myth
November 16, 2012|By Anthony Orlando
There's an email making the rounds that tells a story about two little girls who run for
class
president in grade school. One girl works hard, runs a good campaign, and promises to do her best if elected. The other girl promises to give everyone ice cream. The teacher asks the children how they'll pay for the ice cream. They have no idea, but they vote for the ice cream girl anyway.
That, says the
email
, is how Barack Obama won the election. He promised to give away free stuff that we can't afford.
Bill O'Reilly got the ball rolling on this theory when he said, "It's not a traditional America anymore, and there are 50 percent of the voting public who want stuff. They want things. And who is going to give them things?
President
Obama."
We have such short memories.
It was the
Republican president George W. Bush who expanded eligibility for
food
stamps in the 2002 farm bill. There were 99
Republican representatives who voted to expand the program further in the 2008 farm bill. And it was that same
Republican president who waived one of the work requirements for 32 states in November 2008.
That's why the food stamp program added more recipients under Bush than it did under Obama.
The welfare claim is even more ridiculous. We may not remember the food stamp expansion under Bush, but surely we remember welfare reform under Bill Clinton. In 1996, Congress ended "welfare as we know it" and replaced it with "Temporary Assistance for Needy
Families
" (TANF), a program whose budget hasn't changed in 16 years. It was $16.6 billion in 1996, and it's $16.6 billion today.
In the year before welfare reform, 4.7 million Americans received assistance from the program. Today, only 2 million receive assistance from TANF.
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