It's past time to close the Corporate Welfare Office

[sad sally]

Enough with demonizing entitlements - Medicare, Social Security, Food Stamps and Wefare. The biggest greediest users of "government handouts" have proven they don't care about the health of America or 99% of Americans, they don't care about democracy, they only care about greed and wealth.



September 3, 2012 by Common Dreams
The Real Welfare Problem: Government Giveaways to the Corporate 1% - by John Atcheson

While Romney and Ryan lie about welfare (and just about everything else), and Obama and the Democrats demurely mumble objections, there is a real welfare horror story going on in America.

But it’s not about welfare queens vs hard working whites; its not about race or ethnic divisions; it’s not about any of the standard Republican bait and switch, divide and conquer BS.

It’s about handouts to the uber-rich and the corporations.

Bottom line: if you’re a Fortune 500 company or a member of the wealthiest 1%, you’re getting welfare, and a hell of a lot of it.

If you’re one of the dreaded entitlement crowd – which, if you include social security and Medicare, is the vast majority of the remaining 99% -- you’re getting chicken feed, and the Republicans want to take even this meager sustenance away.

Let’s run the numbers.

corporate welfare:http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/09/03-7

[Trillo]

1. Good read, thanks. NT

[Thinkingabout]

2. As an example, the Bachmann family farm got $250,000

We should have issued food stamps to them, would have saved lots of money and they would need ID to use them. The same goes to big oil, give them food stamps and cut their welfare.

[Tennessee Gal]

3. Excellent. This is a far larger problem than people realize. nt

[jsr]

4. And they bitch about people buying ice cream with food stamps

for their kids.

[msongs]

5. corporate welfare is created by dems and repub presidents/congresses - good luck w/that nt