Ron Johnson is a Tea Party Republican, so i'm not shocked that he's stupid. Ron Johnson married into money, which is completely fine, but if you do that, please don't attack working people in clearly false, stupid ways, like this:
Sweet Jesus. Ok, for starters, guys, marriage is not an economic plan for America. People should not "need" marriage. Second off, I'll just let Kos' writer Jud Lounsbury take it from here:Wisconsin- this man is embarrassing you. Vote him out, as fast as you can, in 2016. A man handed his riches should not be shaming single-moms to fit his false narrative of American life. In the case of this man, he really should just be out of the public conversation after 2016's elections. It would be best for all of us, and for him, since he's making a fool of himself.As anyone who works and has kids would expect, Johnson and Grothman's modern redux of the "welfare queen" has been rated "Mostly False" by Politifact and was given "Two Pinocchios" by the Washington Post's fact checker. Why? Because it is a ridiculous notion to suggest that when you’re a single parent, working below the poverty line, that you would intentionally have another child to get more government assistance and "increase your take-home pay." Obviously, food stamps, health care and other government assistance don't come close covering all the expenses that come with having a child and what Johnson and Grothman fail to grasp in their misleading calculations of "income," is that children actually eat and children actually get sick-- the "increased income" they're talking about comes in the form of increased benefits that all (in most cases literally) get eaten-up by the children.Which is why, as we still struggle to climb out of the Great Recession, during which a record number of people (including families headed by single moms) needed help in the form of food stamps and other government assistance programs, the birth rate in the United States came to a screeching halt.It's also important to point out that in the current generation of children, more than half will spend at least part of their childhood in a single-parent household and although most of these single-parent households are headed by women, most single women with children don't receive government assistance that we typically think of as "welfare."Although Johnson is trying to conjure up images of the 1950s aproned housewife facing some sort of bizarro binary decision of either finding "someone to support her" or going on the government dole, that's simply not world that we live in. Today, Senator, most of the ladyfolks-- regardless of whether they are married or not-- are in the workforce. Period. In fact (you’d better sit down!) most new college graduates today are women and there are even more lady lawyers and lady doctors coming down the pike than men!
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