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[+] [email protected] 54 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

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[–] Blue_Morpho 41 points 2 months ago (1 children)

"I've been on food stamps and welfare. Anybody help me out? No. No."

Actor Craig T Nelson on how the government never helped him.

[–] GraniteM 13 points 2 months ago (1 children)

So help me there was some big deal right wing personality who talked about how the government shouldn't subsidize education by saying that when he was a kid he wanted an education so he... went down to the public library and read books there. Not a hint of irony. Can't remember exactly who it was, but the dissonance stuck with me.

[–] Blue_Morpho 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I never heard that one. If you figure it out, post back.

[–] GraniteM 3 points 2 months ago

The difficulty in locating the original is that Republicans are ALWAYS trying to destroy public education and public libraries, so it's kind of like trying to Google John Smith.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago (1 children)

If anyone doesn't know, this is an actual quote from a town hall meeting in '09 when the ACA was on everyone's mind.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Video?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Hmm, while it's widely quoted i dunno if there is audio/video to find

give me a bit to see if i can dig that up. If anyone wants to try as well it was in Simpsonville, South Carolina, by an unidentified person to congressman Bob Inglis.

Edit: it was reported by the Washington Post as happening on July 28 2009. While the Simpsonville town hall website keeps audio and transcriptions of its meetings, it seems to have purged all meeting records before 2015. Anyone else wanna take a crack at it?