Jennifer Welch
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1,470 appearances
9 recordings
1 series
first heard Sep 2024
last heard 20 Aug
Jennifer Welch’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Poor people are the problem because they're lazy.
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They're lazy.
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And so I think the demonization of the poor kind of started under Reagan.
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That's when I first became aware of it, that, you know, trickle down economics was going to work and was going to lift these people up, was going to give them jobs.
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You hear so many, a senator from our state, James Lankford, saw him on Fox News.
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He's like,
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You know, people can get insurance through their employer.
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There's no reason the federal government should have to pay this.
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Number one, 40 percent of businesses do not offer insurance.
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And you've got Walmart workers that might be working, you know, 60 hours a week.
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But they cannot afford to pay their bills because the employment rate is $7.25 an hour.
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So we don't want to pay you a livable wage.
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So Walmart stockholders can make more money.
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And then the taxpayer can subsidize their workers because we don't want to pay them enough that they can live off of their income.
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And that's a huge problem.
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They're ignoring the fact that there is no opportunity.
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And.
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People are so easy that are in a better class, you know, upper socioeconomic to act like that it's because they're lazy.
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And it's not because they're lazy.
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It's because they haven't had the advantage of being white.
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