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[ PRIVACY Forum ] Important Read: New York Times: Even Critics of
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Important Read: New York Times: Even Critics of Safety Net Increasingly Depend on It
http://j.mp/AujGKw (New York Times)
"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."
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