Joe The Plumber on Welfare??

Saw this in my email group, what's this about? Did anybody watch Hannity last night?

"With all the talk lately of "welfare" payments being redirected from corporations and CEOs to working Americans -- as Obama seeks to spread the wealth that's been concentrated among the top 5% of Americans for thirty years to the other 95% -- it was interesting to hear the latest hood ornament of the Millionaire Socialist Express, "Joe the Plumber," say on Fox News on Sunday morning that he himself was on welfare at one point in his life. (At which point the segment was brought rather quickly to an end...but not before one of the hosts could slip in some obligatory spin with "But it was just a hand up, not a hand out, right? Right?!!!")

And being the oblivious doofus that he is (but also the person from whom Sarah Palin derives her definiton of "socialism," much the way she derives foreign policy experience from staring at Russian snowbanks), he even added his biggest complaint about the (damned) welfare system in this country: the asinine regulations that, when someone -- like the fellow welfare friends he cited -- earns even $5 too much, they suddenly lose all their child care benefits. Cha right! How stupid is that? Joe wants to know.

I'll bet John McCain, the man who made Joe famous then blamed Obama, feels exactly the same way about welfare as the man he's pinned his last hope of election on. It'd be nice to see someone in the media ask him about that. I guess it shouldn't be surprising that Joe the fake plumber is also a fake anti-socialist. After all, the Repugs are the party of the fake "president you want to have a beer with" who doesn't drink, and the "maverick" who boasts of voting with Bush over 90% of the time..."


and then

"..Just happened to catch the rerun of tonight's Hannity and Colmes interview with Joe the Welfare Recipient. He actually repeated both his comments about being on welfare and about his friends who lose their childcare if they make too much. Hannity barreled right over it like he never heard anything, and obviously Colmes followed suit...

Turns out, Joe also lived in Alaska for awhile, and got some of those socialist checks from the government there, too...explaining that THAT wasn't socialism, it was just giving people money. The guy is less coherent that Sarah Palin, if that can be believed, but Hannity managed to help him through each of the hoops he wanted him to jump through, like a calamitous participant on Stupid Human Tricks..."

this from a fake plumber that wants to end social security

:rofl:

I wounder how many others of Hannity, Limpball's, Oliely's, Mclame/Failin's followers have ever had to use the system? Hmmmm - maybe we should do as Limpball's said and "research" that issue.

Bet that shocked Hannity!! Of course they would overlook that, pretend they didn't hear it. What scumbags.

The state puts aside oil profits, and have invested them since the 80s, residents get an annual dividend from those profits since it is our money (it's a prop we voted on and federal courts have upheld)

Joe better not be getting a PFD check now, there are strict rules about who is eligable and if you move away there are very limited ways to continue receibving it.

It wasn't welfare though.

Two different situations. The author did not call Alaska's oil money welfare.