host of reality TV show and having a fixer. This are the common threads that bind DJ Trump and Sean Hannity together. Welfare Queens Living Large President Ronald Reagan, who popularized the concept of a welfare queen, understood the outrage many folks feel when people who don't need government assistance take it anyway. "The truly needy," he said in his 1983 State of the Union Address, "suffer as funds intended for them are taken not by the needy, but by the greedy." One of the biggest welfare queens of all is living large in public housing at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. By one account, DJ Trump has received $885 million in tax breaks from the government of New York alone. That doesn't count the federal goodies Trump scarfs up, most recently the millions he stands to gain from the tax cut he signed into law. (We won't know for sure until he releases his taxes. My guess is that will happen just after the hockey game played in hell.) He is not the only uber rich---advised by fixers such as Michael Cohen---benefiting from US Government hand outs. Sean Hannity is another rich guy benefiting from Government hand outs. The Guardian found that Hannity owns millions of dollars of real estate through more than 20 shell corporations, which shield his identity. The federal Department of Housing and Urban Development, The Guardian notes, insured the mortgage loans with which Hannity purchased the properties. Let's be clear: This is a subsidy. This is a benefit. This is big government aiding a very wealthy man. This is welfare. On his state-run media platform, Hannity can be found decrying welfare. He once expressed shock as he interviewed a California surfer and musician who received $189 a month in food stamps, as well as government health insurance. "Welfare Wave" the graphic blared. In 2012, comedian Jon Stewart slammed Hannity for promoting the fiction that President Barack Obama had created "an entitlement society." In 2013, Hannity complained that an African-American man in Tennessee had allegedly fathered 22 children who were receiving welfare. A Hannity guest called for sterilizing the man. Another Hannity guest opined that "the women should have kept their legs closed." But when it came to accepting government support for his real estate investments, Hannity didn't keep his wallet closed. The ethic of rugged individualism gave way to the desire to have the federal government help line Hannity's pocket. The ugly welfare stereotypes that Hannity advances -- an indolent African-American, a long-haired California hippy -- feed the grievances of his audience. Little do they know that rich WASPS like Hannity & DJ Trump also have their hands in the welfare cookie jar. https://www.cnn.com/2018/04/23/opinions/sean-hannity-is-a-welfare-queen-begala/index.html https://www.cnn.com/2018/04/23/opinions/sean-hannity-is-a-welfare-queen-begala/index.html
This is dumb. The government offers incentives to influence where and how people invest their money, and then when someone takes them up on it, we accuse them of corruption and exploitation?
lol. The little guy conservatives get totally enraged when their next door neighbor lazes around for an extra week or two on worker's comp or unemployment comp while unbeknowst to them their heroes are subsidized by the government for millions. I always remember when one of their saints, the smiling, addled Ronald Reagan dismissed unemployment insurance as a "pre- paid vacation for free loaders https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/ronald_reagan_400074 If this did not lead to such a ******ed up society it would be funny. What will it take for these folks to finally wise up that they are being played and it is not the folks receiving food stamps, and unemployment and welfare and other benefits that are causing them to have no real increase in wages in the last 35 years..
