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The original "welfare queen"

porsche959 · 2013-12-22 19:48:56

Interesting story from Slate. http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/history/2013/12/linda_taylor_welfare_queen_ronald_reagan_made_her_a_notorious_american_villain.html

22-12-2013 7:48pm

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Interesting story from Slate.

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/history/2013/12/linda_taylor_welfare_queen_ronald_reagan_made_her_a_notorious_american_villain.html

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#2 22-12-2013 7:49pm

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porsche959 wrote: »

Interesting story from Slate.

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/history/2013/12/linda_taylor_welfare_queen_ronald_reagan_made_her_a_notorious_american_villain.html

And?

It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone's fault. If it was us, what did that make Me? After all, I'm one of Us. I must be. I've certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We're always one of Us. It's Them that do the bad things.
Terry Pratchet

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#3 22-12-2013 7:53pm

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mango salsa wrote: »

And?

I also read an interesting story once .

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#4 22-12-2013 7:53pm

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mango salsa wrote: »

And?

That's her there now

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#5 22-12-2013 7:55pm

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dmc17 wrote: »

That's her there now

'Tis

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#6 22-12-2013 7:56pm

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Once upon a time there were three bears. . . .

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#7 22-12-2013 7:57pm

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The Backwards Man wrote: »

Once upon a time there were three bears. . . .

Wait! Wait!

I want to get a cuppa before you start.

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#8 22-12-2013 7:57pm

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Chucken wrote: »

'Tis

Surely

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#9 22-12-2013 7:58pm

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mango salsa wrote: »

And?

It's a disgrace Joe.

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#10 22-12-2013 8:01pm

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Everything that came out of Reagan's mouth was bat shít crazy..

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#11 22-12-2013 8:01pm

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Drink.

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#12 22-12-2013 8:04pm

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From the article -

dillac—all of which were real.

As of 1976, Taylor had yet to be convicted of anything. She was facing charges that she’d bilked the government out of $8,000 using four aliases. When the welfare queen stood trial the next year, reporters packed the courtroom. Rather than try to win sympathy, Taylor seemed to enjoy playing the scofflaw. As witnesses described her brazen pilfering from public coffers, she remained impassive, an unrepentant defendant bedecked in expensive clothes and oversize hats.

I can just see Scofflaw in his finest Mack Daddy get up already

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#13 22-12-2013 8:11pm

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Very slow link.

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#14 23-12-2013 1:32am

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porsche959 wrote: »

Interesting story from Slate.

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/history/2013/12/linda_taylor_welfare_queen_ronald_reagan_made_her_a_notorious_american_villain.html

I notice a few of the posters are commenting within a few minutes of the opening post. Have just read the whole story and it took quite a long time. So I call shenanigans on their reflex action. It's a deadly story really and well worth a read.

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#15 23-12-2013 4:56am

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If it was here in Ireland within the last twenty years then "down with this sort of thing".

But seeing as it was in the States thirty something years ago, who really cares other than historians?

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#16 23-12-2013 6:42am

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dmc17 wrote: »

Chucken wrote: »

'Tis

Surely

Herself that's in it.

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#17 23-12-2013 6:43am

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Corvus Maximus wrote: »

Herself that's in it.

She'd buy ye a pint though, you could say that much about her.

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#18 23-12-2013 8:04am

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Knob Longman wrote: »

Everything that came out of Reagan's mouth was bat shít crazy..

Reagan:'Tear down this sentence, Mr knob!'

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#19 23-12-2013 8:53am

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Have welfare spongers no shame at all?

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#20 23-12-2013 9:40am

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WilyCoyote wrote: »

I notice a few of the posters are commenting within a few minutes of the opening post. Have just read the whole story and it took quite a long time.

But the first reply wins the prize of being the most Über Cool person on After Hours :rolleyes:

Even if it has no relevance or makes no sense, you should know that by now n00b.....

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#21 23-12-2013 10:51am

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Wow! That's some story. Welfare fraud is the least of it. Kidnapping and abandonment of children, presumed murder, identity theft... and several adults wondering who the hell they are.

Hi, I was identified by the FBI as Paul Joseph fronczak, the kidnapped baby from Michael Reese hospital in Chicago, IL. ... I was abandoned in newark nj on July 2, 1965, found in a stroller outside a variety store. I was placed in an orphanage. When the FBI found me, I was placed in a foster home and given the name "Scott McKinley." I have just found out that I am not Paul Joseph fronczak. I need help to find out who I am.

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#22 23-12-2013 1:00pm

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WilyCoyote wrote: »

I notice a few of the posters are commenting within a few minutes of the opening post. Have just read the whole story and it took quite a long time. So I call shenanigans on their reflex action. It's a deadly story really and well worth a read.

Yeh it's an interesting story. I think the title is putting people off.

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#23 23-12-2013 1:17pm

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Yeah I assumed it would be a welfare bashing thread, but it's actually a great story.

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#24 23-12-2013 2:05pm

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Chucken wrote: »

Wait! Wait!

I want to get a cuppa before you start.

You'll need a gallon. And if your powers of concentration don't go too far put it on the long finger.

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#25 23-12-2013 2:27pm

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anyone want to summarise it?

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#26 23-12-2013 2:42pm

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This is actually a really interesting story.
Great post OP.

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#27 23-12-2013 3:33pm

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The Aussie wrote: »

But the first reply wins the prize of being the most Über Cool person on After Hours :rolleyes:

Even if it has no relevance or makes no sense, you should know that by now n00b.....

Ideally it should be cynical and small minded.

Ex.

OP - Apparently there are plans for a nuclear reactor in Galway.

Uber Cool Person* - Oh yeah well Apparently your ma.. anybody ?.. anybody ?

(25 thanks)

*(coolly tiring of his own genius)

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#28 23-12-2013 11:25pm

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OK I've got my popcorn , can you rewind it to the start ?

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#29 24-12-2013 12:46am
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Thud wrote: »

anyone want to summarise it?

Ronald Reagan tells story about a woman living like a queen on fraudulent welfare payments

Turns out the woman was real, but welfare fraud was the least of her crimes (neglect, kidnap, possible murder, etc.)

She had so many different identities that no-one can really be sure who she was, same for the various children she trafficked (& neglected).

Bonus weirdness: Voodoo, affairs & her racial ambiguity!

It's actually well worth reading! It's a really incredible story.

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