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0 pointstclancy1mo ago0 comments

Buddy, what are you on about? This sounds just like all those welfare queens in Cadillacs GHW Bush was telling us about.

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hn_acker1mo ago

> This sounds just like all those welfare queens in Cadillacs GHW Bush was telling us about.

I don't think George H. W. Bush did that. Do you mean Ronald Reagan [1]?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welfare_queen#Origin

tclancyOP1mo ago

Interesting. I think the senior Bush must have used it during the '84 campaign at the RNC? My memory is slipping plus I would have been like 8. But I was a nerd who followed politics for a while before that.

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hn_acker1mo ago

> This sounds just like all those welfare queens in Cadillacs GHW Bush was telling us about.

I don't think George H. W. Bush did that. Do you mean Ronald Reagan [1]?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welfare_queen#Origin

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