Gov. Paul LePage on Social Security: “It is welfare, pure and simple”

Responding to a Bureau of Economic Analysis study that found the state’s personal-income growth during the first three months of 2014 to be well below the national and New England-area average, Tea Party hero and Maine Gov. Paul LePage released a memo of his own on Wednesday in which he claimed the BEA analysis to be flawed because it doesn’t appreciate how Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid are actually forms of welfare.

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