{"id":10772,"date":"2016-10-10T01:04:50","date_gmt":"2016-10-10T06:04:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/?p=10772"},"modified":"2016-10-10T03:32:06","modified_gmt":"2016-10-10T08:32:06","slug":"expose-government-assistance-thief-known-in-the-1970s-as-welfare-queen-was-a-white-career-criminal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/expose-government-assistance-thief-known-in-the-1970s-as-welfare-queen-was-a-white-career-criminal\/","title":{"rendered":"Expos\u00e9: government assistance thief known in the 1970s as “Welfare Queen” was a white career criminal"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Welfare<\/a>
Source: Slate.com<\/figcaption><\/figure>Slate’s Executive Editor Josh Levin created a complex, in-depth multi-media story about the woman who was dubbed the “Welfare Queen”<\/a> by Ronald Reagan. Mostly described by the media as a black woman, Linda Taylor was actually white and it seems she was also a kidnapper and murderer.<\/p>\n

Ronald Reagan loved to tell stories. When he ran for president in 1976, many of Reagan\u2019s anecdotes converged on a single point: The welfare state is broken, and I\u2019m the man to fix it. On the trail, the Republican candidate told a tale about a fancy public housing complex with a gym and a swimming pool. There was also someone in California, he\u2019d explain incredulously, who supported herself with food stamps while learning the art of witchcraft. And in stump speech after stump speech, Reagan regaled his supporters with the story of an Illinois woman whose feats of deception were too amazing to be believed.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn Chicago, they found a woman who holds the record,\u201d the former California governor declared at a campaign rally in January 1976. \u201cShe used 80 names, 30 addresses, 15 telephone numbers to collect food stamps, Social Security, veterans\u2019 benefits for four nonexistent deceased veteran husbands, as well as welfare. Her tax-free cash income alone has been running $150,000 a year.\u201d As soon as he quoted that dollar amount, the crowd gasped.<\/p>\n

Four decades later, Reagan\u2019s soliloquies on welfare fraud are often remembered as shameless demagoguery. Many accounts report that Reagan coined the term \u201cwelfare queen,\u201d and that this woman in Chicago was a fictional character…<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Slate’s Executive Editor Josh Levin created a complex, in-depth multi-media story about the woman who was dubbed the “Welfare Queen” by Ronald Reagan. Mostly described by the media as a black woman, Linda Taylor was actually white and it seems she was also a kidnapper and murderer. Ronald Reagan loved to tell stories. When he … <\/p>\n

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