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Quote by: Mozart1220 I hear this same story all over the net now(usually from right wingers trying to discredit helping the poor) and to date NO ONE can verify ever actually seeing this happen. |
Heh, "welfare queens," that was a brilliant one. Sometimes I can't help but admire the GOP for their ingenuity at confusing and misleading the American people.
Of course, Reagan was the target of some urban legends as well, but they weren't nearly as inspired. My favorite was the one that claimed he said, in relation to whether we should prevent logging to maintain our forests, "If you've seen one redwood, you've seen 'em all."
Actually,
what he said was, "a tree is a tree - how many more do you need to look at?"
"What truth endures beneath the flaming stream?"
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A Volcano, Bartolome de Las Casas,
Inferno de Marsaya, 1536