Was it better to eat the string cheese now or to save it? To buy milk for $3.80 nearby or for $3.10 across town? Was it better to pay down the $600 they owed the landlord, or the $110 they owed for their cellphones, or the $75 they owed the tattoo parlor, or […]
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March 18th, 2013 | Tags: Electronic Benefit Transfer (EBT) card, food stamps, Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), welfare, Woonsocket | Category: Economy, Progressives, Rhode Island, Socialism | Comments are closed
Donovan Slack Politico 3/1/2013 President Obama on Friday granted pardons to 17 people who had been convicted on a range of charges, from theft to conspiracy to traffic counterfeit goods. Here’s the list, via the White House: Robert Leroy Bebee – Rockville, Maryland. Offense: Misprision of a felony, 18 U.S.C. § 4. Sentence: Two years […] March 4th, 2013 | Tags: campaign contributions, counterfeits, donors, drug trafficking, food stamps, fraud, guns, Immigration and Naturalization Service, Larry Wayne Thornton, pardons | Category: Barack Obama, Crime, Georgia, Politics | Comments are closed
Benefit to fall $50 a month starting in January Kate Giammarise The Toledo Blade 11/12/2012 Ohio families receiving food stamps could get an unwelcome surprise come January: $50 less every month in assistance. For the 869,000 households enrolled in the program for the poorest Ohioans, that could amount to about $520 million annually out of […] November 16th, 2012 | Tags: Department of Job and Family Services, food stamps | Category: Department of Agriculture, Economy, Entitlements, Federal spending, Ohio, Pennsylvania, unemployment | Comments are closed
The Edge of the Abyss Mark Steyn National Review Online 11/9/2012 …In the weeks ahead, Democrats and Republicans will reach a triumphant “bipartisan” deal to avert the fiscal cliff through some artful bookkeeping mechanism that postpones Taxmageddon for another year, or six months, or three, when they can reach yet another triumphant deal to […] November 10th, 2012 | Tags: Ben Bernanke, class warfare, debt ceiling, food stamps, liberal left, Mark Steyn, Sen. Harry Reid, statism, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner | Category: Economy, Elections, Entitlements, Federal Reserve, Federal spending, Health Care, Taxes, Treasury Department | Comments are closed
Phoenix Capital Research ZeroHedge 9/21/2012 By all counts, the latest ISM (a measure of manufacturing in the US) was a complete and total disaster. In August the ISM hit 49. Anything below 50 is considered a recessionary rating. However, things are even worse below the surface. The ISM is made up of several components. Its […] September 22nd, 2012 | Tags: European Central Bank (ECB), food stamps, Inflation, national debt, stagflation | Category: Banking and finance, Economy, Employment, Entitlements, European Union, Federal Reserve, Federal spending | Comments are closed
Bruce Johnson American Thinker 9/18/2012 If the Cloward and Piven agenda were being implemented, would it look any different? In all likelihood, they would be delighted with the massive deficits and the “spillage” that is the lax implementation of government entitlements. A 1966 Article by Columbia Professors Cloward and Piven was a hot topic for […] September 18th, 2012 | Tags: disability benefits, food stamps, government waste, Mitt Romney, national debt, Occupy, right to welfare, welfare fraud | Category: Barack Obama, Cloward-Piven Strategy, Economy, Entitlements, Government programs, Marxism, Socialism | Comments are closed
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