Alaskans fear life without Daddy Tedbucks..

Alaskans Fret About a Future Without Help From 'Uncle Ted'

ANCHORAGE, July 30 -- Alaska's vast landscape is littered with federally funded tributes to Sen. Ted Stevens's single-minded promotion of the state, from the brushed steel of Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport to the $187 million that subsidizes air mail for the one-third of residents who live beyond the reach of roads.

In his almost 40 years in the Senate, the octogenarian Republican in many ways defined the shape of the Last Frontier, not least by using his perch on the Appropriations Committee to ensure that his state's tiny population remained the nation's richest in federal spending per capita. More than $9 billion arrived in Alaska from Washington in 2006, twice as much as a decade earlier

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/30/AR2008073003358.html?hpid=moreheadlines

as Uncle Teddy.:puke: :puke: Does brain freeze cause ignorance too?

They like to pretend that they're rugged individualists living in the last frontier. Yet totally dependent on federal largesse courtesy of taxpayers in the lower 48. Maybe it's time to stand on your own two feet a little more, no? Oh, and quit sending corrupt Republicans to Washington; they stink up the joint. Although I can sympathize with the impulse to keep Ted Stevens and Don Young as far away as possible.

now he sends me right wing bullshit emails.

I'd just love to rub his face in the Stevens mess, but I'm trying to be a bigger person, and i don't want to alienate my friend.

They do have that attitude, exactly as you described though.

that he is the beneficiary of socialism?