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Dude is bitching about high taxes on blue collar workers and welfare recipients eating bad food/getting fat? I don’t understand what he’s trying to say. He says he’s middle of the road in politics. If a Va or NC country guy with a beard sings a song relating to politics, he goes to #1. I’ll just keep listening to Bruce Hornsby myself.
 
whatever dude. Your song is what it is and there is a reason that Republicans latched on to it.
 
I have yet to even listen to the song and have paid no attention to him whatsoever until I watched the above video. He wouldn't be the first musician that Republicans completely missed the point when co-opting their music. See: Springsteen, Bruce and Sister, Twisted.
 
The guy has some talent but the song isn’t particularly remarkable. I appreciate he is down the middle politically or whatever, but the “I’m paying for fatties to buy cookies on welfare” trope is pure 90s Limbaugh/jhmd selective tax whining that overlooks where most of his tax dollars are wasted/given away to crooks
 
I posted his explanation on the other thread about this song. His logic was blaming lack of government spending on welfare for people on welfare (particularly children) eating too much junk food.

It was his version of Tupac’s “we’ve got money for wars but can’t feed the poor.”

Chalk it up as a win for conservative media. Dude seems like middle of the road guy who would probably be a leftist if he lived in a left leaning area or there was an effective national rural leftist movement to latch onto.
 
His logic was blaming lack of government spending on welfare for people on welfare (particularly children) eating too much junk food.
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Lord, we got folks in the street, ain't got nothin' to eat
And the obese milkin' welfare

Well, God, if you're 5-foot-3 and you're 300 pounds
Taxes ought not to pay for your bags of fudge rounds
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Lol I guess
 
Just telling you what he said.
 
Yeah I don't buy that at all. Some revisionist work there so he can potentially maintain "both sides" moving forward. Should've just leaned into the obvious grift that it was IMO
 
Can't wait for the right to applaud CCR for "I aint no Senator's Son"

"See...they're against Democrats and their DC CRONYISM"
 
Wakeforest22890 said:
Yeah I don't buy that at all. Some revisionist work there so he can potentially maintain "both sides" moving forward. Should've just leaned into the obvious grift that it was IMO
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Yeah it’s be fine if he didn’t list the weight
 
I mean do food stamps really actually even cover fudge rounds? I would consider that an issue if it’s true. It’s not the reason why dude is getting taxed, but seems to point to corruption between big Agra and government officials.
 
Small-town and rural working-class whites love to bitch frequently about how unworthy poors are all living it up on welfare programs like food stamps that they pay for with their taxes while they struggle more and more to pay their bills because they're just good, hard-working Real Americans who aren't lazy, won't live off welfare, and so the ungrateful government takes more and more of their money for welfare programs that don't benefit them. Many of them seem to really believe that people on welfare live better than they do, and you can sense the resentment. It's a common complaint that I've heard since I was a kid.
 
Right. It has been a political goldmine since Reagan stoked this resentment of the poor in the 80s, and Limbaugh threw gas on it through the 90s. It must happen for American conservatism to maintain its hold on its base, along with pseudo religion -based sexual intolerance, and reproductive subservience.

These fears keep the faithful clutching their pearls and pulling the lever for fucking creeps like Tommy Tuberville and Virginia Fox.
 
Wakeforest22890 said:
Can't wait for the right to applaud CCR for "I aint no Senator's Son"

"See...they're against Democrats and their DC CRONYISM"
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Trump already plays Fortunate Son at his rallies, which is especially ironic given the verses on how the rich evade taxes and the poor can't escape being drafted.
 
Highland Deac said:
Small-town and rural working-class whites love to bitch frequently about how unworthy poors are all living it up on welfare programs like food stamps that they pay for with their taxes while they struggle more and more to pay their bills because they're just good, hard-working Real Americans who aren't lazy, won't live off welfare, and so the ungrateful government takes more and more of their money for welfare programs that don't benefit them. Many of them seem to really believe that people on welfare live better than they do, and you can sense the resentment. It's a common complaint that I've heard since I was a kid.
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The same people who parrot apologia for the rich evading taxes because "it's a smart use of the system" and in the same breath demonize any poor person who tries to game welfare.

Not to mention the whole welfare queen thing is a myth.
 
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