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This interesting article from the NY Times backs up what many on the left have said for some time. The right is jam-packed with hypocrites when it comes to the social safety net. They aren’t, in fact, rugged individualists out of some Ayn Rand novel, but in fact just like everyone else — benefitting from the safety net they demonize as socialism:......................
Ki Gulbranson owns a logo apparel shop, deals in jewelry on the side and referees youth soccer games. He makes about $39,000 a year and wants you to know that he does not need any help from the federal government.
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 region’s 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.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/12/us/even-critics-of-safety-net-increasingly-depend-on-it.html?adxnnl=1&partner=rss&emc=rss&adxnnlx=1329062548-%20tHqYD695U16BxIMYX6niA&pagewanted=all#
via:
http://www.oliverwillis.com/2012/02/12/the-tea-party-loves-socialism-fakes-otherwise/
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They're totally fine with taking benefits that help them or their families because they are God's chosen people, hardworking, good and moral 
Not like those people down the road. (Or more likely, in the OTHER neighborhood across town.) In other words, they confirm what we always knew about them.....they believe they are better and more deserving than everyone else. Elitists.
I work for a man who rails against Libruls, Obama, Muslims, government and taxes. Right now his wife is in hospice through her Medicare. Hospice provides all her meds, supplies like chux pads, diapers, liquid nutrition and CNA and RN visits several times weekly. He's irritated that hospice doesn't provide an item that he has to buy himself. It really gets under his skin that he has to spend 10 bucks a week on this item and just loves all the "freebies" he's now getting from hospice.
It hasn't crossed his mind that the government is providing this service to him and his wife; the same government help he begrudges poor people, food stamp recipients, etc.. He is a classic Fox News conservative. He is easily riled up by the beef of the day on Fox and is constantly spouting falsehoods he's heard on right-wing radio. I try to ignore him as best I can, but his willingness to milk the system for his family's benefit while he bitches about society's leeches makes me furious. It's the classic screw-you-I-got-mine attitude of the wingers.
it's just those, you know, BROWN people who "milk the system" 
