Nebraska candidate for U.S. Senate Jon Bruning for comparing welfare recipients to racoons.
Nebraska Attorney General Jon Bruning, a frontrunner to win the GOP nomination against Sen. Ben Nelson (D-NE), compared poor people to scavenging racoons in a speech this week. […]
"The raccoons figured out the beetles are in the bucket," Bruning said. "And its like grapes in a jar. The raccoons - they're not stupid, they're gonna do the easy way if we make it easy for them. Just like welfare recipients all across America. If we don't send them to work, they're gonna take the easy route."
A politician from Nebraska criticizing welfare, eh? I wonder how Bruning feels about farm subsidies. He supports the government program known as the Federal Crop Insurance Corporation. Yeah, it's like single-payer healthcare for farm crops. In fact, until 1996, participation was mandatory. Hmm.