Flashback: Obama sent personal checks to poor

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Yesterday MSNBC contributers bitterly denounced Mitt Romney for giving $50 to a unemployed woman who approached him on the campaign trail.

MSNBC contributor Joy-Ann Reid said that Romney was enforcing the worse stereotypes playing into a “conservative meme, that you don’t need actual programs that the government puts in place to help people in need, we’ll just give them charity, I’ll just give him 50 bucks.”

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