Mass media now describe Social Security, Medicare & unemployment benefits as "government handouts"!

[Better Believe It]

This is a new description now being used by the corporate mass media to attack these benefits by suggesting they are some form of undeserved welfare programs. BBI



A big boom in government handouts
Nearly 20 cents of every dollar of disposable income comes from the government, often in the form of Social Security, Medicare or unemployment benefits.
June 15, 2011

http://money.msn.com/how-to-budget/government-handouts-bigger-than-ever-usnews.aspx

[hifiguy]

1. Absolutely sickening and

utterly predictable. Feudalism is coming faster every day.

[fredamae]

2. Why do we continue to pay for these "entertainment" services? n/t

[BrklynLiberal]

3. Because the media is the ass-kissing lackey to corporate America/repukes.

check out this thread.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=439&topic_id=1307893&mesg_id=1307893

[RebelOne]

4. I am collecting social security and I do not consider it

a government handout. I put money into social security for over 50 years and I deserve this "handout."

[BrklynLiberal]

5. Absolutley right!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! We pay for unemployment insurance as well!!!

[gratuitous]

6. Meg Handley is the author of this piece

I wonder if she considers her paycheck from Useless News and World Distort to be a "handout"?

[spooky3]

8. USNews has always been a right-wing rag.

[Angry Dragon]

7. There sure are a lot of ignorant people out there when it comes to SS

[kestrel91316]

9. Welfare is a "handout". SS, Medicare, and unemployment are

benefits paid on what amounts to insurance policies.

Have I mentioned yet today how much I HATE THESE PEOPLE?

[Uncle Joe]

10. Just one more of the endless examples; depicting

corporate media's inherent conflict of interest and use of false propaganda to alter the American Peoples' perception.

Thanks for the thread, Better Believe It.

[bvar22]

11. How many "Democrats" are STANDING UP,

and calling them on their BULLSHIT?


One LESS after today.



"There are forces within the Democratic Party who want us to sound like kinder, gentler Republicans.
I want a party that will stand up for working Americans."
---Paul Wellstone


"By their WORKS you will know them."

[fredamae]

12. Well, They have to get off their Knees if We wish to Stand!

All I hear are Crickets--How 'bout you?