NOT MY FEDERAL CHECK, PLEASE!

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Monday, August 22, 1994

There are certain "rights" most of us not only take for granted but demand: the right to possess firearms, drive an automobile and receive our proper share of federal checks or entitlements, as they're euphemistically called. Try to take away a citizen's revolver or rifle, his driver's license and his Social Security check upon reaching 65 --and you have a fight on your hands, maybe even a revolution.

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