Sean Hannity is a 'welfare queen'

[fleur-de-lisa]

https://www.cnn.com/2018/04/23/opinions/sean-hannity-is-a-welfare-queen-begala/index.html?sr=twCNN042318sean-hannity-is-a-welfare-queen-begala0813PMVODtop

The controversial performance artist, host of the eponymous unreality TV show, has been revealed by The Guardian as a beneficiary of a federal mortgage guarantee program.

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."

[Doodley]

1. He is a leech, sucking the lifeblood from everyone else, just like Trump.

[SWBTATTReg]

2. I'm confused...

I thought HUD insured the loans for the banks that made the loans. Thus, when the homes were foreclosed on by the banks, they (banks) went back to HUD for their entitled insurance proceeds. If Hannity paid mortgage insurance or the like, should not this be okay? Now if Hannity didn't pay any mortgage insurance, or get title insurance, etc., the options that any new home buyer faces, a mortgage when the home(s) were purchased, then he eats the difference/suffers the consequences, not the banks or other institutions that may have lent money during the process.

[Girard442]

3. It's a fungibility thing.

If the banks don't have to shoulder the full risk of writing mortgages, they can write them on more favorable terms, so Hannity would get a subsidy even if it is indirect. Also, if Hannity buys mortgage insurance from a government entity at better rates than he'd get from a purely private firm, that's also a subsidy to him.

[SWBTATTReg]

4. True...thanks and take care...nt

[IluvPitties]

5. White collar welfare.

[BSdetect]

6. Its so very different for the wealthy when it comes to crimes.

[Achilleaze]

7. Repube Welfare Wanker is the preferred term

Thanks to fleecing the American public, republican propaganda PIMP Hannity is cruising through life wearing Gucci loafers and driving a megabucks republican welfare cadillac. Sick.

[BobTheSubgenius]

8. It's as if someone expects consistent and ethical behavior from that POS.

Has the writer not been aware of the last 20-odd years of broadcast propaganda?

[bucolic_frolic]

9. Put a tiara on him!

[niyad]

10. not a "queen"-- one should not insult the term by coupling it with that slimeball.

[bucolic_frolic]

12. True hypocritical cronyism

using the government you're railing against to enrich yourself because one of your best buds stole his way into office

[JawJaw]

13. No Wonder Twitler Loves Him.

Daddy was a a welfare queen, too.

http://prospect.org/article/trump%E2%80%99s-housing-hypocrisy