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Handsome Devil
NYTimes: The Anti-Government Republican Base is Totally Dependent On Government | Alternet
Keep up the anti-government bullshit you Repugs, we know you all love govrnment even when you're too damn dumb to realize you benefit from it, support the batshit crazy rightwingers and vote against your interests and and blame the Democrats for the aftermath like you've ben doing the past 30 years,
Reliance on government is growing, not shrinking, in the aftermath of the 'Great Recession." And the same folks who shouted down their Congresspersons at Town Hall meetings in 2009 are relying more and more on the social safety net to stay alive.
The personal stories explored in this article are painful to read because the disconnect between the slogans they spew and their personal behavior is maddening. You just want to shake your head in sorrow. This portrait of a tea party activist is typical:
He says that too many Americans lean on taxpayers rather than living within their means. He supports politicians who promise to cut government spending. In 2010, he printed T-shirts for the Tea Party campaign of a neighbor, Chip Cravaack, who ousted this regions long-serving Democratic congressman.
Yet this year, as in each of the past three years, Mr. Gulbranson, 57, is counting on a payment of several thousand dollars from the federal government, a subsidy for working families called the earned-income tax credit. He has signed up his three school-age children to eat free breakfast and lunch at federal expense. And Medicare paid for his mother, 88, to have hip surgery twice.
The most dispiriting aspect of these stories is that guys like Gulbranson do show dim signs of awareness of the problem, but because they've been completely brainwashed by right-wing propaganda they're utterly unable to conceive of a solution:
You have to help and have compassion as a people, because otherwise you have no society, but financially you cant destroy yourself. And that is what were doing.
He paused again, unable to resolve the dilemma.
I feel bad for my children.
He feels bad for his children. That's what thirty years of Republican philosophy has left him for a legacy. Not: "wait a minute, there's something wrong here," not, "why has my pay stagnated for ten years while my boss's has tripled," but "I feel bad for my children."
Keep up the anti-government bullshit you Repugs, we know you all love govrnment even when you're too damn dumb to realize you benefit from it, support the batshit crazy rightwingers and vote against your interests and and blame the Democrats for the aftermath like you've ben doing the past 30 years,