re: #552 GeneJockey

Excellent!

This part, BTW:

Is one I find that wingnuts often completely fail to grasp. One of them once told me what I’m sure he thought was a scandalous story about one of his wife’s coworkers. She’d gotten pregnant as a teen, dropped out of school, and ended up on welfare. She finished school, then with the help of Pell Grants, went to college and got herself a well-paying job.

I said, ‘That sounds like a success story. With the help of these programs, she went from being a drag on society to being a productive taxpayer.’

His response? “But she didn’t have to pay it back!!!!”

The Teabaggers don’t care how many people are helped by these programs, because somewhere, somebody JUST MIGHT benefit more than they have to repay, and/or because people who use the programs to re-start their lives after a mistake don’t end up being punished for that mistake for the rest of their lives.

Wingnuts have bought into the notion that to be poor is proof of being evil, and being rich is proof of being good.