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Alaska Stimulus Hypocrisy: State Slams Government Spending While Reaping Federal Funds

First Posted: 8/19/10 Updated: 5/25/11

Alaska Stimulus Hyprocrisy
Alaska Stimulus Hypocrisy: State Slams Government Spending While Reaping Federal Funds

New York Times:

Alaskans tend to live with their contradictions in these recessionary times. No place benefits more from federal largess than this state, where the Republican governor decries "intrusive" federal policies, officials sue to overturn the health care legislation and Senator Lisa Murkowski, a Republican, voted against the stimulus bill.

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