Welfare Queen Creep

Noel notes this article.

There seems to be a phenomenon of Welfare Queen Creep. At one time it was a pejorative against people on welfare. Now it's being applied to "the 47%". That's nearly a majority! When it is a majority, people may suddenly wake up and realized they've been hoodwinked:

But really, the sexist and racially tinged stereotype of the "welfare queen" has expanded in the decades since Ronald Reagan first uttered the phrase in the '70s. Back then, he was using the phrase to imply that welfare fraud is more common than it is. Now, it tends to be used more to imply that there's a class of people, mostly women, who subsist on welfare throughout their lives to avoid working. But this simply isn't true.