http://www.osborneink.com/2010/03/alabama-welfare-state.html News that's fairly liberal, but never unbalanced Sat, 11 Feb 2012 01:39:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 http://www.osborneink.com/2010/03/alabama-welfare-state.html/comment-page-1#comment-1451 ZIRGAR Sun, 07 Mar 2010 20:01:27 +0000 http://www.osborneink.com/?p=2439#comment-1451 Eerily reminiscent of my old home planet of West "By God" Virginia, where Bubba gets into his pickup truck to head on down out of the holler to pick up his check at the Welfare Office, all the while listening to Rushama Bin Limbaugh rant and rave on his radio about the evils of gov't and Obama. From the there he heads on over to the fuel station to get some of that gov't subsidized, low cost petrol and then on to the local bar to drink his woes away, watching FOX News on the bar's TV, but not edyumecated enough to be able to actually read the misleading chyrons, but nonetheless bitches about them thar ferners who come here to take our god-given jobs away and trash talks the role of gov't as it supposedly intrudes into people's lives, as if that's the real enemy. Yep, sounds very familiar... Eerily reminiscent of my old home planet of West “By God” Virginia, where Bubba gets into his pickup truck to head on down out of the holler to pick up his check at the Welfare Office, all the while listening to Rushama Bin Limbaugh rant and rave on his radio about the evils of gov't and Obama. From the there he heads on over to the fuel station to get some of that gov't subsidized, low cost petrol and then on to the local bar to drink his woes away, watching FOX News on the bar's TV, but not edyumecated enough to be able to actually read the misleading chyrons, but nonetheless bitches about them thar ferners who come here to take our god-given jobs away and trash talks the role of gov't as it supposedly intrudes into people's lives, as if that's the real enemy. Yep, sounds very familiar…

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