Where did the "poor folks buying crab legs with food stamps" thing come from?

[SoCalDem]

36. From our old friend......Ann Ecdotal.

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Seriously, this and others like it came straight from the Reagan days when there HAD to be a reason to start to undo The Great Society and to continue to undermine the New Deal..

People of "lower classes" just HAD to be turned on each other in order to make them vote for Draconian cuts to social programs..

Welfare Queens with fur coats & food stamps
Unwed mothers with 8 kids (some borrowed) signing up for FREE food and welfare
Welfare cheats with subsidized housing & driving NEW Cadillacs
Food stamps used for Crab Legs..Shrimp..Lobster..Soda Pop..junk food..steaks.. you name it.

EVERYONE has their own definition of what constitutes poverty or need..and what constitutes middle class..but those epithets were aimed squarely at people making $20-50K, who had jobs, homes, and who came to deeply RESENT how THEY were managing just fine and coould not AFFORD those luxuries, and how mad they were when others were cheating & doing it on THEIR taxes..

It's the politics of envy/persecution/shame/blame/hyper-moralization..

It succeeded beyond their wildest imaginations and is still with us, but now it includes many more things..