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It Will Take 6.25 BILLION “Man Years” To Pay Off Federal Government Liabilities: “A Mathematical Impossibility”
We often hear government officials and mainstream financial pundits throwing around numbers like a billion or trillion. To most Americans these numbers are indiscernible. They are so incredibly enormous that we can’t even imagine
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11 Things You Didn’t Know You Could Buy With Food Stamps
Food stamps have become a major facet of the American system. And as the number of welfare recipients increases, so does the number of items that can be purchased with a food stamp Electronic
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US to splash out taxpayers’ $600 mln on weaponry for Israelis
According to the bill newly adopted by the US Parliament, Israel will get over $600 million in military aid. The military aid package comes in as part of the National Defense Authorization Act for
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Gov’t Targeting Taxpayers For Old Family Debts
A few weeks ago, with no notice, the U.S. government intercepted Mary Grice’s tax refunds from both the IRS and the state of Maryland. Grice had no idea that Uncle Sam had seized her
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Dangerous Ingredients: 54% of Food Sold at Walmart is Banned by Whole Foods Market
Whole Foods maintains a list of ‘Unacceptable Ingredients” which includes everything from MSG to high fructose corn syrup. It also includes artificial colors, artificial preservatives, hydrogenated fats, etc. You can see the whole list,
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Two Stooges: Boehner and Cantor laugh as they sell America down the debt river
After the big debt ceiling drama last autumn, GOP supporters have gradually realized that their camp is as utterly corrupt and disinterested in restoring the Constitutional Republic as their Democrat counterparts. The term ‘conservative’ has
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How Big Banks Are Cashing In On Food Stamps
Many benefit programs have gone high tech with debit cards and J.P. Morgan Chase and others are making a pretty penny charging users fees. What is there to be done
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Federal Government Legalizes Hemp
After three years of negotiations, the Farm Bill passed both chambers of Congress on Tuesday. Hemp wasn’t necessarily one of the largely debated topics. However, hidden deep within the bill, a clause lurked that
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US Congress to cut food stamps by $9 billion
Lawmakers in both chambers of US Congress have reportedly reached a deal to cut almost $9 billion from the food stamp program on which nearly 47 million Americans rely to afford food. The cuts to
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Why are 47 million Americans on food stamps? It’s the recession — mostly.
There's a fairly basic question at the core of the current food-stamp debate in Congress. Why has the program grown so rapidly over the past few years — to the point where 47 million
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Households On Foodstamps Rise To New Record High: More Americans Live In Poverty Than The Population Of Spain
There was much discussion of Friday's "disappointing" non-farm payrolls goal-seeked, seasonally adjusted, X-13-ARIMA conceived jobs "number." The conclusion was that it showed an economy which one year after the start of QEternity was growing
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Food Stamps May Be Split From Farm Bill In House
Republicans are making more noise about dropping food stamps from farm legislation that previously failed to pass the House of Representatives because of disagreement over cuts in nutrition assistance
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Walmart and Monsanto – the power of money in food
A new report by Food and Water Watch shows that more than 1,000 outside interests and more than $170 million went into the 2008 Farm Bill. With the newest law up for debate, what
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