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re Alaska Senate candidate Joe Miller taking state medical aid, unemployment insurance, farm subsidies, and using state equipment to run his campaign, Taibbi writes ..

I can’t even tell you how many people I interviewed at Tea Party events who came up with one version or another of .. Yes, I’m on Medicare, but.. I needed it! It’s those other people who don’t need it who are the problem! Or: Yes, it’s true, I retired from the police/military/DPW at 54 and am on a fat government pension that you and your kids are going to be paying for for the next forty years, while I sit in my plywood-paneled living room in Florida watching Fox News, gobbling Medicare-funded prescription medications, and railing against welfare queens. But I worked hard for those bennies! Not like those other people!

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