James Talarico DESTROYS "welfare queen" rhetoric

haven't heard a good democratic argument of great, let's help people. But how are you they're nasty people. They're welfare queens. They're they're nasty people who take advantage of the system and take away from those who earned it, take away from those who need it. So how are you going to take that into account? How are you going to go and make sure we cover that risk as well? The biggest welfare queens in this country are the giant corporations that don't get a tax deduction for flying on a private jet. It's not hungry kids. It's not working parents who work multiple jobs to provide for their families. I agree with you that we need individual responsibility. And I don't want to create a culture of dependency. I want a hand up and not a hand out. You know, I believe that you don't give a man a fish, you teach a man to fish. But if you're going to take your friend out on a boat for the day, teach him how to fish, you want to make sure he had breakfast that morning. You want to make sure he's not sick because that allows him to learn how to fish. Again, I was a public school teacher. So I saw how when kids showed up hungry, they couldn't learn that day. Even my brightest students, even my hardest working students couldn't succeed, couldn't pull themselves up by their bootstraps when they didn't have boots. That's what I'm trying to fix in this country. We don't want dependency. We want to reward hard work. And I think that should apply to those billionaires not just working people. And I think that should apply to those billionaires not just working people.