Food Stamps In Crosshairs Of Republicans' Plan To Save Military (salary, legal)
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Nice try but fail. What makes more sense, take cuts from something that is ridiculously over bloated with spending like the military, or something that is a tiny piece like food stamps?
Apparently, you have *never* put your change in a jar. You put in dimes, nickles, quarters, EVEN PENNIES, and *wham* before you know it, you have $400.
Same with those tiny little programs that nickel and time the budget into bankruptcy.
Most fifth graders understand that food stamps help keep people out of poverty, enabling them to buy awesome, amazing luxury items, such as $15 dollar a month (GOOD GOD THAT'S 50 CENTS A DAY!) dial up internet service and maybe some basic cable (30 bucks a month, a dollar a day) to entertain themselves and their kids, since they won't be jetting off to Switzerland any time soon. 1/3 of Americans don't use fast Internet | TechCrunch
According to the FCC, about 93 million Americans don’t use fast, broadband Internet, citing cost and complexity as a factor in their refusal to enter the 20th century. The study, below, found that 80 million adults and 13 million children either still use dial-up or don’t use the Internet at all at home.
I think you should speak to other *******s. Perhaps one with a brain. As a matter of fact, the faired better socially and physically before it.
Intelligently
--70Ford
Uh you do know that prior to the internet, kids functioned just fine right?
Everyone talks abouts fixing bridges and roads like we were still back in the decade of the great depression. It worked then because it required tons of unskilled laborers with a shovels in their hands. Today miles and miles of highway get built with a handful of workers (skilled workers) and some heavy equipment that gets leased.
Not so much. A single approximate 2 mile stretch of interstate got rebuilt (as in more lanes) in my state and it took 15 years. Pure-assed laziness, government waste, and blatant theft. Traffic was rerouted along that stretch for years and years. It was un-freaking-believable. They finally finished it a couple of years ago.
You have no idea how much of our money gets wasted when a company gets a government contract to do a job.
Apparently, you have *never* put your change in a jar. You put in dimes, nickles, quarters, EVEN PENNIES, and *wham* before you know it, you have $400.
Same with those tiny little programs that nickel and time the budget into bankruptcy.
20yrsinBranson
Putting nickles and dimes in the jar is pointless when we could be putting truckloads in the bank.
Funny that someone would mention Walmart in this thread. According to figures from Ohio,each Walmart employee receives $943 per year from taxpayers in the form of food stamps,medicaid and cash assistance. Why should the taxpayers subsidize these employees while the Walton family hoards their wealth? Six members of this family have as much wealth as the bottom 30% of our citizens. Six Waltons Have More Wealth Than the Bottom 30% of Americans - Yahoo! Finance
And why, exactly, are you sitting on the internet pounding on your oil-based keyboard (big, rich oil, doncha know) instead of starting a company like Sam did? Hard to believe lazy Americans are angry at a family for doing well.
Here's a clue: if you don't like it, don't support them by shopping in their store.
That said. Look no further than the civilian jobs on those bases for waste.
My sister in law was saying the same thing last week. She was a contractor who has worked in many different Government civilian teams. According to her many people come in an hour late and leave an hour early. Some even took 2 hour lunch breaks and before they started clamping down, go out to lunch and not even come back. And when they where at work hardly did any sort of work. Many of these people make around 80,000 to 90,000 dollars a year, one guy made $170,000.
She was sick and tired of having to doing other people's work that she quit and took a job that paid less. Too many people think that just because we are paying money for defense, it will make us safer. A lot of that money is also wasted by Haliburton and Blackwater as well.
These dimwits have some nerve. How do they consider themselves patriotic when they’re unwilling to sacrifice for the greater good? I guess it’s profits at any cost.
...meanwhile.... the dems are trying to balance the budget by gutting the military and sticking it to the troops.
The Obama administration’s proposed defense budget calls for military families and retirees to pay sharply more for their healthcare, while leaving unionized civilian defense workers’ benefits untouched.
Under the new plan, the Pentagon would get the bulk of its savings by targeting under-65 and Medicare-eligible military retirees through a tiered increase in annual Tricare premiums that will be based on yearly retirement pay.
Significantly, the plan calls for increases between 30 percent to 78 percent in Tricare annual premiums for the first year. After that, the plan will impose five-year increases ranging from 94 percent to 345 percent—more than 3 times current levels.
This of course is going on while the president gives a campaign speech to our troops at Fort Stewart, stating how he has their back.
Obama Goes on Collectivist Rant In Front of Troops - President Obama - Fox Nation
Administration officials told Congress that one goal of the increased fees is to force military retirees to reduce their involvement in Tricare and eventually opt out of the program in favor of alternatives established by the 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, aka Obamacare.
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