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Examples of Government handout folks succeeding:
Condi Rice (poor black family origin, IIRC)
Clarence Thomas (minority scholarship).
However, I don't think anyone in the party was touting government handouts. The party has moved away from handouts, and continuing to characterize it that way ignores reality (but not republican rhetoric). I note that the only significant welfare cutbacks in recent history came during the last Democratic administration, and was an issue of great concern for that president, who hammered on Congress long and hard to come up with sensible rules to force people to get off the dole.
But, spin it how you will. Your president is the one who rolled back those welfare reforms to make up for the fact he couldn't get us employed within the timeframe limitations.
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