Tommy Thompson: “In the Greyhound bus depot in Chicago, there was a sign put…”

“In fact, the New York Times was following several of those individuals and wrote stories about them. And it even got so bad that In the Greyhound bus depot in Chicago, there was a sign put up before I got elected that says, if you want more money, all you have to do is pay $25, get a round trip bus trip to Madison or Milwaukee or Kenosha and get on welfare, cash your check, and come back and live in Chicago. And it was a huge story, and everybody in Wisconsin was pretty upset about it.” (00:54–01:16)

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