Tea Partiers Scoff at Government Handouts, Use Them to Buy Nice Things
18.05.12

The New York Times created its own little Lifetime movie recently by visiting wonderful, cold, middle-class Chisago County, Minnesota, which gave 57 percent of itself over to Rick Santorum in last week’s caucus. There, the reporters asked some Americans how they felt about the government, and of course many of them said they hated it, think it’s an overly generous asshole, want it to die, and then bashfully/tearfully/reluctantly admitted that the very same government gives them thousands of dollars in benefits every year. The “hero” of this tale, a Mr. Ki Gulbranson, “says that too many Americans lean on taxpayers rather than living within their means. He supports politicians who promise to cut government spending.” But that doesn’t mean Gulbranson doesn’t take in the earned income tax credit, free school meals for his children, and free expensive hospital operations for his old lady. Gulbranson also helped elect a Tea Party congressman frighteningly named Chip Cravaack (fondling the fake human in the picture), whose idea of explaining the national debt is putting 50-pound rocks in his children’s backpacks and asking them to carry them forever.
Source: Wonkette (satire)