we here at tyte are not big fans louie Gohmert we don't like when he talks
about Hobbit holes when he can
but implicates the UN and conspiracies to take down the US government
I also don't like it when he talks about welfare now I
he was recently I on the House floor talking about the subject
is there a couple course who are covered the first let's hear louie Gohmert gomer
himself
in the 60s but federal government
desiring to help poor moms
who we're dealing with deadbeat dads that we're helping decided
will help will give a check for every child you can have out-of-wedlock and I
keep wondering mister speaker wouldn't it have been better in the sixties you
say you know what
we realize your deal with that be bad there we know you'll be better off with
a high school education so instead giving you a check
for every child you have our wedlock how bout if we give you some day care for
that child
show you vanish high school in get Joan the gentleman's time has expired
that would have made it more different for more americans love their your back
so you'll just have to trust me that that video was recorded in the last
couple days it sounds like it comes out at the
eighties these actually there on the house floor railing against welfare
queens
what decade is that and so is that a couple other things not just that he
doesn't like welfare but welfare and welfare abuse is why louie Gohmert
actually got into politics in the first place is what he said
it weren't for the policies in this war on poverty declared fifty years ago it
may well be that I would have never run for Congress
because what got me thinking about a first as a state District Judge back in
Texas we're seeing more and more young women and single women coming before me
single moms charged with welfare fraud
one woman and had 15 kids didn't even know where they all were
that was the most I ever dealt with it began to really eat away with me that in
the sixties the federal government desiring to help poor moms who are
dealing with deadbeat dads decided
will help will get a check for every child you have out-of-wedlock
I've got a couple of problems with that first of all he's talking about how
this was really eating away at him in a 65 this is a big issue
louie Gohmert I found out and doing a little bit every search on Wikipedia
was born in 1953 that meant that means that during the sixties he was between
seven and 17 years old
he's an oddly s do viewer of news if you use that word about welfare fraud when
he was
eight or nine years old and so I have a problem with what he said they're just
because it doesn't seem actually factual
but the bigger problem is that he's talking about welfare
welfare fraud and specifically the idea that's been trotted out for decades by
conservatives that women are purposefully having children
just learning at a bigger check or get a check in the first place
and that's something that they often just say
wouldn't it be great if we had sexual research and whether there's any
evidence that that actually happens
oh wait we do I found it easily by searching on the internet back in the
90's
researchers at Rutgers compared birth rates between thousands of welfare
recipients
and a control group that did not receive any welfare and I found that there was
no statistical difference whatsoever between the two groups when it comes to
birth rates
and I know that some people maybe the liberals hate when I bring up the
studies
but the idea that you can simply go up there and say they're having kids so
they can get money something that seems so
on its face absurd is not outside
over the range of science science can actually investigate that you can ask
these questions
and find answers using actual data about Americans
and they did that back in the 90's spin eighteen years
maybe he has had time to look that up but more specifically about louie
Gohmert there is not a problem with this
is that's why he got into politics but think about all the potential things I
could drive a person
to be interested in politics in the first place or to think I need to be a
part of that
like maybe you see a war that you think is is a waste of money is immoral
it's killing innocent people I gotta get elected so I can stop this war
something like that that would seem understandable the idea that these
single moms these poor moms are purposefully pumping out children
sitting get bigger checks
that's the great moral outrage that launch louie Gohmert
onto the national stage that should seem ridiculous to him
but he's a pretty dim gai it should at the very least seem ridiculous to us as
people who have to
consume louie Gohmert political products
so that bothers me not a fan louie Gohmert which she'd stayed out of
politics although
perhaps as one up four hundred and are 435 members of Congress is doing less
damage to the country
that he would if he was still a judge in Texas