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  • The result is that the cabinet must find its short-term cuts in the soft underbelly of the public sector, among bureaucrats in the civil service, quangos and regions, whose numbers have blossomed on "wealthfare" over the last 10 years.

    Cutting from the rich and clobbering the middle, Cameron looks like a lefty Simon Jenkins 2010

  • Because Republicans simply do not have an answer to how they're going to pay for any of this 'wealthfare' giveaway to the ultra-rich.

    Chris Weigant: Friday Talking Points [132] -- The DMV? Really? 2010

  • Because Republicans simply do not have an answer to how they're going to pay for any of this 'wealthfare' giveaway to the ultra-rich.

    Chris Weigant: Friday Talking Points [132] -- The DMV? Really? 2010

  • Adding additions to a – as a previous poster called it “wealthfare” bailout bill meant specifically for financial institutions is a slap in the face to those of us on Main Street.

    Steny Hoyer on bailout vote 2008

  • So how much more is this “wealthfare” actually going to cost us … who will need welfare as a result.

    Steny Hoyer on bailout vote 2008

  • These recipients of "corporate wealthfare" accounted for almost two-thirds for arms sales by the top 100 companies.

    War -- the Ultimate Racket 2007

  • I might say big pessimistic *****, and be a lone case myself, but that's how I see society: a big boat where the goal is to gain power and wealthfare, where there are always more and more passengers, and never more room.

    digg.com: Stories / Popular 2009

  • When you start acting like mothers and protecting your children … when you stop being brainwashed and act like thinking adults … when you prove you are REALLY concerned about your children’s wealthfare … then you get your 13-year-old daughters who were married off and pregnant back.

    Funny, we call that being an accessory « Lab Kat 2008

  • Not only are banking billionaires on permanent state wealthfare, but even worse, as the wealth available becomes increasingly scarce and there isn't enough left to satisfy the billionaires 'grotesque appetites and regular citizens' needs to flush their toilets or heat their homes, we're heading to the point that all Third World countries come to -- calling out the troops to ensure that the peasants pay their tithes to their absentee masters in New York and Connecticut and don't get all uppity like those Europeans.

    Crooks and Liars 2009

  • report, "Subsidies of the Rich and Famous," we are a wealthfare state.

    Crooks and Liars Tina Dupuy 2012

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