Tuesday, October 2, 2012

Millionaire moochers

The Romneyite fantasy of “makers vs. takers” (fantastic because they include such parasites as arbitrageurs, K-Street flacks,  and casino magnates  among the makers) has led some enterprising journalists to notice some surprising elements among the moochers:


The headline apparently actually understates the case.  A fairish number of Americans are “millionaires” (a term deflated by inflation) in the sense that their total family assets reach that amount.   But those on this dole reportedly include a much more select bunch: “Oct. 2 (Bloomberg) -- Almost 2,400 people who received unemployment insurance in 2009 lived in households with annual incomes of $1 million or more, according to the Congressional Research Service.”  That is quite a different matter.  And bad cess to the WaPo headline-writer who cannot read as far as the first line of the article.

-- My my, and now this too:  a millionaire moocher of a different stripe:

A Michigan woman who became a poster child for welfare fraud when she continued collecting food stamps after winning a $1 million lottery last year has been found dead of an apparent drug overdose.

We shall only add that food-stamps mooching is less corrupting of the public character than is the casino-mentality fostered by state-sponsored lotteries, and by such scum as Donald Trump  and principle Romney backer Sheldon Adelson.

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