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1. Didn't Rush Limbaugh call them welfare queens?

Reply to hermetic (Original post)

Fri Nov 8, 2013, 12:58 PM

Nov 2013

Yeah, he did.

http://www.duffelblog.com/2013/10/rush-limbaugh-calls-troops-welfare-queens-moochers/

When you joined, you were essentially on welfare, because whether or not you ever go to war, you get free medicine, free food, free place to sleep, even free clothes to wear to work every day. The taxpayer even gives you years-long paid vacations to exotic foreign lands.

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