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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