Ted Nugent Still Doesn’t Understand Why People on Welfare Are Allowed to Vote

Conservative rocker Ted Nugent recently penned an op-ed in which he said that Republicans should let President Obama sail off the fiscal cliff, and that allowing welfare recipients vote is insanity.

Nugent rambles on about the national debt and voter suppression… blah, blah, blah. He rambles on so long that you wonder why The Washington Post gave him this prime piece of online real estate just to spew his hatred.

Nugent begins his rant by coining the word, “Fedzillacrat,” to describe Democrats:

Only a Fedzillacrat could possibly think raising taxes on the wealthy could accomplish anything toward restoring sanity in the financial insane asylum known as our federal government. Let’s be honest; we are not close to going over the ‘fiscal cliff.’

Then Nugent slams the system for allowing welfare recipients to vote:

Let’s also stop the insanity by suspending the right to vote of any American who is on welfare. Once they get off welfare and are self-sustaining, they get their right to vote restored. No American on welfare should have the right to vote for tax increases on those Americans who are working and paying taxes to support them. That’s insane.

What Nugent probably doesn’t know is that Republican counties eat up most food stamp growth, at least according to Bloomberg.   If he understood that by disenfranchising people on welfare, he’d be upending Republican voters, and therefore reducing the chances of victory for Republican candidates, I’m sure he’d change his tune.