Miller defends family's past reliance on Medicaid,KidCare

[RamboLiberal]

Source: Anchorage Daily News

U.S. Senate candidate Joe Miller acknowledged Thursday that in the past his family received assistance from federal Medicaid and Denali KidCare, the state low-income health care program. His opponents in the race responded that he's a hypocrite for taking assistance while now saying federal entitlement programs are unconstitutional.

Miller's campaign didn't provide an answer for the past week-and-a-half when asked what low-income assistance he has received. But Miller addressed the questtion Thursday when asked by reporters after a debate in Anchorage, saying people are entitled to know about his past benefits but "it's a bit of a distraction from where we're at today."

"I have the same sort of struggles in my past that other people have had. There is a proper role for government. The question is, who controls the power, is it at the federal level or the state level? It's our perspective that the state is the best arbiter, the state's the best point at which we make those decisions. Because it gets us closer to the people," the Republican nominee said.

Miller said he has not been on government assistance "for years." Miller did not provide a timeline but his campaign spokesman said he thinks Miller stopped receiving benefits in 2002. That's the year he accepted a position as a part-time federal magistrate in Fairbanks, began his own law practice there and started work as an assistant borough attorney. He'd been state magistrate in Tok since 1998.

Miller, who has eight children, said his family "absolutely" received Denali KidCare, a state-run program that includes federal Medicaid money.





Read more: http://www.adn.com/2010/10/07/1491723/candidate-defends-assistance-from.html

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F'ing hypocrite!

[Democat]

1. Government money is ok for him, but not for you!

That's how these guys feel.

[Bitwit1234]

7. I was going to say the same ---

when his family needed it he was glad it was there, but now that they don't need it any more, take it away from other needy families.

[Blue_Tires]

11. He'd be right at home in Virginia....That's an increasingly common tagline...

[Octafish]

26. Compassionate Hypocrisy.

A Thousand Points of Hype.

[BonnieJW]

2. Eight kids??!!

Maybe he should plug up that hole. No wonder he wants elected office - gravy train. Then he'll be totally on the government tit, right Sen. Simpson?

[RamboLiberal]

6. +1

Maybe he ought to get a snip. Bet if there are enough fools that vote him in to office he'll be ready to take all the bennies a cushy senate job provides.

And Miller wouldn't a responsible self-reliant guy like you not have more kids than you can afford and not feed off the govt tit?

[cynzke]

3. Horse Crap!

It's money from the federal government given to the state to administer. It's still FED money no matter how Miller tries to justify it. You have to be really stupid to fall for his crap. Crap is crap!

[Monique1]

4. The help was okay for him but not anyone else

[AlbertCat]

9. Exactly!

The entire state of Alaska DEPENDS on Fed money!

All those red, big square EMPTY states out west DEPEND on Fed money.... collected from the many blue (and red), populated states on the coasts.

Yeah, let AK, AZ, OK, TX, ND....and so forth do without any Fed funds for a couple of years.... (not to mention LA, MS, AL....)


Cheesus, I'm as sick of his big hairy frontiersman act as much as the mama grisly act and the "I'm you....only afraid of sex and science" act!

[livetohike]

17. Welcome to DU!

:hi:

[elleng]

5. Agree its better closer to the people, local/states, BUT

if/when they don't or can't act, perfectly appropriate for Feds to step in.

Its a reasonable debate, and good that its ccme up.

[niceypoo]

8. LOL

Republicans....

:rofl:

[SammyWinstonJack]

23. Hilarious aren't they, in a self-absorbed kinda way.

[Seedersandleechers]

10. Hypocritical dickless, fucked up,

piece of shit. Way to go Alaska. I just hope Alaska doesn't vote against their own self-interest because it effects all of America.

[SoapBox]

12. Hypocrite, Hypocrite...nothing more to say.

And the RushThugs and T.HaterBaggers simply don't care...he could be an axe murderer...as
long as he is crazy and has that "R" next to his name on the ballot, that is fine with them.

[Doctor_J]

13. I know some psychotic wingers who got their starts with SBA loans

Wingnuts are all hypocrites.

[EC]

14. So he was a lawyer who couldn't earn enough to

support his family, but he was qualified enough to get a government position?

[Ikonoklast]

15. So, the hypocrite doesn't believe in the Republican Holy Grail of

Personal Responsibility by having more kids than he could afford to properly care for, and letting taxpayers pay for it.

IOKIYAR.

[Roland99]

16. What's the rwingnut meme? If you can't afford that many kids, don't have them!

asshat hypocrite

[lunasun]

18. stopped receiving benefits in 2002.....

That is not even that long ago to forget where you came from MF

[No Elephants]

19. shut up and sit down. Far away.

[AndrewP]

20. A lot of this Tea Bagger hypocrisy occurred during the flood payouts....

when we had our flood battles when I was living in North Dakota. A lot of those who hosted Tea Party rallies railing about Government and "Socialism" were the first ones in line to get a Government bail-out of their flooded property. I always found that ironic. Yet, they are never called on it by the media.

[TomCADem]

21. The Hypocrisy Is Strong With This One

[myrna minx]

22. The hypocrisy is astounding. K&R

[SeattleVet]

24. 8 kids = 10 people drawing on the Alaska Permanent Fund

That was about $13,000 for them this past year...and over $20,000 for 2008.

And the estimated 2010 per-person payment is $1281.00, so there's another $12,000.

http://www.pfd.state.ak.us/appsandpaymnts/index.aspx

[Vehl]

25. I second that

This guys is such a hypocrite!

and he has the galls to say that it was in the "past"
so what he is saying is that he will use all the government help he can when he needs them, but after he had used it to get to a position where he does not need them, he will demand those government-run stuff be abolished.

What a hypocrite!