Pic of the day: Welfare queen tin cup FAIL!

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Pic of the day: Welfare queen tin cup FAIL!: "What's a welfare queen to do when asking demanding for more taxpayer money? Hold a press conference in her living room - ostensibly the only room in her house that still has heat. She might have wanted to think ahead though and rearrange her furniture just a bit. From Macon.com via moonbattery, what seems just a little out of place here?:

But it's only a 55-inch 1080p LED LCD HDTV. She could have gone for the 62-inch instead. Austerity - we all have to sacrifice you know. Van Helsing pulled down the original caption that no longer appears on the site:

WOODY MARSHALL/THE TELEGRAPH Showing her Georgia Power bills in the one warm room of her home, Raymeica Kelly explains how her mother, sister and herself were turned away from the Energy Assistance Program on Wednesday morning after standing in line for four hours. All three complained that the system the Macon-Bibb County Economic Opportunity Council uses to give out the assistance needs improving.

Around 15 years ago when I was a graduate student, I volunteered a lot of time to Focus Hope in Detroit delivering boxes of food to the needy. Two things I learned: 1) Homes owned by old people smelled really, really bad and everything in the homes were ancient. 2) Homes owned by welfare recipients universally had top-of-the-line tvs, stereos and cable tv or dishes.

The above absurdity has happened before. From Michelle Malkin in 2007: The “Shut up, white boy!” woman is the “slum” dweller with a 60-inch TV

History continues to repeat itself exposing the farce that is our welfare system.

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