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Hey, good news! politifact is quitting. at least, i think politifact is quitting. okay, whether or not they're up and going out of business, politifact is at least letting us know, i think, that they are giving up. that they are at least no longer trying. here's what's going on. my colleague, lawrence o'donnell, has an ad running about the gi bill. the gi bill, of course, provided tuition and other benefits to soldiers returning home from world war ii. lawrence describes the success of that program and then says its critics derided it as welfare. >> it's the most successful educational program...

Good news, politi fact is quitting, i think at least i think it. whether or not they are up and going out of business, it's letting us know i think that they are giving up. they are at least no longer trying. here is what is going on. my colleague, has an ad running about the gi bill. it provided tuition and other benefits to soldiers returning home from world war ii. lawrence describes the success of the program and says its critics derided it as well fair. >> the most successful educational program that we ever had in this country and the critics called it welfare. >> politifact fact checked...

Criticized the gi bill by saying "thebane of the british empire has been the doll system. >> the dole is welfare, a slang term for welfare. so case closed, right? lawrence's ad said critics called it welfare. they found indeed critics of the gi bill did call it welfare. this is an easy one. politifact fact checks, find historical claim a to be true, they therefore rates the claim mostly false. they found it to be true but rate it mostly false. they print the evidence it's true. the bane of the british empire has been the dole system. we found no evidence of critics referring to it as well fare...

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Poor people, they call it welfare. the fact is that everybody in this country lives on welfare. suburbia was built with federally subsidized credit and highways that take our white brothers out to the suburbs were built with federally subsidized money to the tune of 90%. everybody is on welfare in this country. the problem is that we all too often have socialism for the rich and rigged free enterprise capitalism for the poor. that's the problem." people are getting $50,000 tax deductions for their mortgage interest and we do not call that welfare or some kind of federal government housing cred...