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Title: Half of US social program recipients believe they “have not used a government social program” (50% of Americans are retards)
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URL Source: http://boingboing.net/2011/07/08/half-of-us-social-pr.html
Published: Jul 8, 2011
Author: Cory Doctorow
Post Date: 2011-08-02 00:15:45 by Godwinson
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Views: 9129
Comments: 21
Half of US social program recipients believe they “have not used a government social program” Posted by Cory Doctorow on Friday, Jul 8th at 10:48am “Reconstituting the Submerged State: The Challenges of Social Policy Reform in the Obama Era,” a paper by Cornell’s Clinton Rossiter Professor of American Institutions Suzanne Mettler features this remarkable chart showing that about half of American social program beneficiaries believe that they “have not used a government social program.” It’s the “Keep your government hands off my Medicare” phenomena writ large: a society of people who subsist on mutual aid and redistributive policies who’ve been conned (and conned themselves) into thinking that they are rugged individualists and that everyone else is a parasite.
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#2. To: Godwinson (#0)
Silly Premise. Tax credits and interest deductions are not thought of as government social programs.
socalv8 is one of the over 50% retarded Americans.
So claims the #1 socialist retard of the forum. Like your idiotic opinions are worth a squirt of warm piss.......
#6. To: Capitalist Eric, socalv8 (#5)
It is not a claim, it is a fact. Capitalpiss Eric is also a beneficiary of govt programs as well, no?
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529's? I thought they were State run...should be.
#3. To: socalv8, lucysmom (#2)
Silly Premise. Tax credits and interest deductions are not thought of as government social programs.
#5. To: Godwinson, socalv8 (#3)
socalv8 is one of the over 50% retarded Americans.
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