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> 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 Reaga
by hn_acker 9mo 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 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welfare_queen#Origin
- tclancy 9mo agoInteresting. 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.