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That's their long-term plan.

“We’re headed in the right direction,” explained Rep. Chaka Fattah (D-PA) said on MSNBC’s Al Sharpton program. And then he went on to explain how Obama will win among unemployed who wish to keep “their benefits.”

The U.S. is now on the verge of a symbolic threshold: the point at which more than half of all American households receive and accept transfer benefits from the government. Within living memory, the federal government has become an entitlements machine. As a day-to-day operation, it devotes more attention and resources to the public transfer of money, goods and services to individual citizens than to any other objective, spending more than for all other ends combined.

Joppel.com provides a simple, unbiased solution for comparing and enrolling in Medicare Advantage, Medicare Supplement and Prescription Drug Plans.

A tourist in Hawaii spends an average of $200 a day for a hotel room, meals and entertainment. But there's another class of visitors given room and board, full health care benefits and more for just $3 a day. It's not a luxury vacation package — just homeless benefits courtesy of Hawaii's taxpayers.

If ever there was something that worked too well, the cigarette tax might be it. A new study published by the Congressional Budget Office shows that any additional money the state obtains by raising cigarette taxes will eventually be outweighed by the increased use of entitlement programs such as Medicare or Social Security. In other words, a healthier population lives longer and uses more of the government's money.

A federal judge approved a civil-court settlement requiring the Social Security Administration to repay $500 million to 80,000 recipients whose benefits it suspended after deeming them fugitives.

The supposed fugitives include a disabled widow with a previously suspended driver's license, a quadriplegic man in a nursing home and a Nevada grandmother mistaken for a rapist.

During their working life, undocumented immigrants in the United States will pay, on average, approximately $80,000 more in taxes per capita than they use in government services

I have a new book coming out-hero veterans versus the veterans administration. the va is going to be looking for me too cut my benefits. no one has really wrote about the dirty way the va stalls veterans, substandard medical care, propaganda, and pissy delays. Even the recent 9th circuit court of appeals decision, the judges couldn't rule in favor of veterans, because OUR STUPID CONGRESS, will order us too combat, then when we get banged up, discard us as trash.Congress has law, NO COURTS CAN CHALLENGE THE VA. HOW STUPID, WHY HIDDING SOMETHING./ Yea they are.

...If that principle is swept aside and sites like Blogger, YouTube and indeed every social network and any community bulletin board, are held responsible for vetting every single piece of content that is uploaded to them — every piece of text, every photo, every file, every video — then the Web as we know it will cease to exist, and many of the economic, social, political and technological benefits it brings could disappear...