Should it come as a surprise that the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) paid out $115,911,817,301 in stimulus funds, according to a recent report by Recovery.org?
The HHS’s biggest expenditure was $85,958,496,780 in state grants for Medicaid, reports the Washington Examiner’s Charlie Spiering. Other expenditures included multiple grants for income security, social services, and “research.”
Coming in at second place for most “funds paid out” is the Department of Education, which spent $89,676,414,497. Third place goes to the Department of Labor, which spent $65,585,961,509.
The total of “funds paid out” by all federal agencies is $438,201,965,251.
Now if the HHS is already reporting expenditures of this size, what do you suppose its balance sheet will look like after the “Affordable Care Act” kicks into high gear?
Furthermore, is it a coincidence that the three agencies that paid out the most in stimulus funds are also connected to issues (i.e. healthcare, jobs and education) that are being redefined as “rights”?
Final thought: If the “Affordable Care Act” is not repealed (or, at the very least, retooled), the HHS will likely become the largest and most expensive federal agency in the U.S.
(h/t Charlie Spiering, Weasel Zippers)
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barber2
Jan. 11, 2012 at 12:41am“The Affordable Care Act.” Another one of those Big Lie words/ parroted phrases of the Smoke and Mirrors Obama Administration. .. ” Affordable Housing Act ( blew up the economy on bad loans ! ) most transparent … 99%…MLK was the first Occupier… the Taliban is not our enemy…and on and on. One thing for sure , whatever the result is going to be the exact OPPOSITE of what they say ! Liars,,,,
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AzCowboy
Jan. 11, 2012 at 6:06amRemember folks, If we shut down the dod,doe etc. unemployment will go through the roof. Not only
are we giving the money away, we are creating make work goverment jobs that will be eliminated. We need to bring manufacturing back to the USA before we get rid of the goverment jobs. I sure see the problem, I wish had the solutuion.
jH…
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Raider1
Jan. 11, 2012 at 6:51amFor anyone wondering why the “middle class” is disappearing…..there it is. Make a people dependent on a government to ensure government will never go away and politicians can keep their jobs.
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loriann12
Jan. 11, 2012 at 6:55amWhy am I not surprised that Obama is turning this nation into a nation of people waiting for a check from the guberment? Putting even more people on Medicaid, Welfare, etc. How do you think he can justify creating new jobs? They’re all jobs at the welfare office. Or the IRS, in connection with “Affordable Health care”
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loveoursoldiers
Jan. 11, 2012 at 7:24amThe Affordable Care Act is code because health care WILL be affordable for minorities and illegals.. it will be FREE for them. Everything that comes from them has an unstated agenda that is known to the admins of these programs only and probably not written anywhere. It is understood.
I have seen so many non minority people who have been denied these new mortgages after being told they qualified. Now why would that be? I am guessing but I would bet that the lower level people do not know that this is not meant for non-minorities. And so when it goes higher they have to deny it. Just like what happened when Paulsen got all the big bank guys in a room and told them they could not leave until they signed up for stimulus money that some didn’t want.
This is the most corrupt goverment ever.. and the most racist. But they believe it is only fair.. reparations.
Sorry.. It wasn’t my fault I was born to the white race and my family came from Ireland and weren’t slaver holders, etc. I have come to really dislike these people who think this way and I never felt that way before.
His whole reason to become chief was to right the wrongs of the past. The wrongs alleged by his father etc. And that is what the 3 headed commie snake is set out to do and nothing will stop them
( Holder, Obama, VanJones) They are on a mission to destroy our country and take it over and pay ‘us’ back.
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spurjimmy
Jan. 11, 2012 at 8:10amAZCowboy, one solution to begin with is don’t re-elect anybody. Politicians, especially those career traitors who got us into this mess, need to know what it’s like to get fired.
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AzCowboy
Jan. 11, 2012 at 8:34am@spurjimmy. I agree but! We will probably have to hold our noses this time and just get this #$gg&^ out of office. I’m not a racist. There are white #$gg&^%, black #$gg&^%, asian #$gg&^% etc.. But a #$gg&^ is a #$gg&^. Lets get him out then start to rebuild. We need ours jobs back in the USA!!!
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objectivetruth
Jan. 11, 2012 at 8:47amThe affordable care act is a prelude to the ovens quite literally.It takes alot of money to set up and keep hidden, till time is right.It won’t be as ugly, by any means ,as 60 years ago, though.They learned from there old masters well.Promises of a job as a ruse, to get us into cattle cars won’t work.They will just play dial a disease ,one you don’t have,treat you for the side effects of the medication or complications of the first.It kills you appears totally normal.You are picked up by an ambulance and kept in a freezer until disposal at the medical waste disposal unit.
Sebellius=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herta_Oberheuser
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objectivetruth
Jan. 11, 2012 at 8:49amhttp://www.auschwitz.dk/Women/Oberheuser.htm
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objectivetruth
Jan. 11, 2012 at 8:51amHas this web site stopped allowing people to drop links for verification?I’ve tried to drop a couple for verification and they don’t appear active.I haven’t changed the way I drop them.What gives?
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objectivetruth
Jan. 11, 2012 at 9:13amLadies and Gentlemen I made my comment on Karen Sebellius on a political scale, not personal.She of all people ,should have known what this could and no doubt will provoke.If she didn’t truly know,when she found out the real provisions,she should have shouted it to the rooftops.She should have stood with us, not against us.
Affordable housing act blew up due to incompetence and corruption.They did push the race card on it.For what its worth, many minorities in my area realized that and avoided the use of it.Then again I live in an area with a unique view of the racism issue.Someone mentioned the blacks,in my area most of them don’t believe in reparitions.They consider that to be the militant view more akin to the panthers.They know that the truth is every race color creed and ethinicity has at some point been a slave to another.In some cases to their own race.I’ll never forget the debate between a militant panther and a local.The locals answer was as soon as the panther won their races reparitions he would go to england [as a representative]to claim it for the whites who were sentenced here centuarys ago.He then went on to say he had more in common with the whites than he ever did them.Didn’t set well with them as you can imagine.
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RayOne
Jan. 11, 2012 at 9:46amI want to see the contributions to elections, Campaign Slush funds.
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Drakkhanlord
Jan. 11, 2012 at 10:23amhmmm , turn off all funds to illegals…
they will self deport…
that opens up a few million jobs…
saves 400billion+ a year (medical,education, housing etc,etc,etc)
12million illegals…in 1988 maybe…
Is a Govt figure multiply by 5 to 10 and will be about right.
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Bluebonnet
Jan. 11, 2012 at 11:04amCorruption abounds in all government agencies. The more money they get the more they take advantage of it, and the less the American people get for it.
“It’s for the children” is worn out. The more we give “for the children” the less they seem to learn. The scores seem to keep going down each year, instead of going up, after all the funds they continue to get.
We’ve all heard about the welfare scams and how so many get away with never working for their keep. Medical has a share in the scams too. I’ve heard of doctors who over bill or falsely bill for work that was never done. The other day I heard about a hospital playing the game and got caught.
A friend worked for a dentist who over billed, and for work never done, to the VA hospital. She didn’t like being a party to the scam and finally quit her job. Seems to be a common thing, to skim off the top, but no one reports these scams because they are afraid. T
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Cat
Jan. 11, 2012 at 11:23amThe numbers prove only one thing …
Anyone remember Richard Nixon and Charles Gregory (Bebe Rebozo)?
Our federal government is nothing more than organized crime, out of our control, and now, out in the open
There isn’t one candidate who can, and has cited a way out, including crackpot, Ron Paul
They ALL will say anything they have to, to get elected
It’s all about controlling the money … period
Once in office, the crime scene remains, grows larger and larger, and a bigger portion of the preverbal pie goes to those who control the money
Wake up Americans
We’ve been lied to for over 60 years
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Protoham
Jan. 11, 2012 at 3:00pm@ AZ Cowboy
DOD is one of the few departments authorized by the Constitution. Dept of Energy and Dept of Education are not.
All Government Jobs are service jobs. It is does not provide a service worth having then Shut it Down.
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okredstate
Jan. 11, 2012 at 3:51pmExcuse me AZCOWBOY: The govt jobs need to go NOW. You are paying out but not geting anything in return. Your logic is horrible.
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ChiefGeorge
Jan. 11, 2012 at 12:29amI have no faith in our government whatsoever. We create our own insanity and then ask the same scroundrels to get us out of it or they offer to at best. Its the same run around ever since I was old enough to understand this crazy system. Keep spending like this and we are finished. Maybe the Chinese are actually behind NDAA ever think of that? Its like you better keep it together America and protect our investment in you or else we go to War tomorrow. I believe they have us over a barrel so the politician so no problems spending more money because nothing else matters.
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DoubleThrowDown
Jan. 11, 2012 at 2:50amThe Biggest problem with this country spending like this is that there is no end in sight to it. In every great society there comes a end, I don’t see the US coming out on top this time around. We as a country are starting to wake up, but we keep hitting the snooze button and saying we will do it later. By the time everyone else wakes up and understands that the people we call our leaders have stole our land, wealth, and liberty we will already be at the wrong end of the gun.
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His_Way
Jan. 11, 2012 at 3:57amOnly starting to wake up? Lord, we pray through Your divine power, that we still can overcome this chaotic, immoral, upside down, state of affairs, before we’re gradually just accepting it as the dark “new normal”.
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Ted H
Jan. 11, 2012 at 8:42am“We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.”
~ Albert Einstein
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Mo Better
Jan. 11, 2012 at 3:52pmThought for the Day:
If Congress were in joint session, attended by the Fraud-Of-The-Awful/Offal/Oaf-full Office and the Walking-Gaffe Plugs Biden, and a meteor hit the capitol demolishing everything, would that be a good thing or a bad thing for the country?
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Ghandi was a Republican
Jan. 11, 2012 at 12:07amThat’s enough to give 43,800,000 Homeless people an apartment, car, food and college money for an entire year!! Or 430 Million crACK HEADS A $1,000 ROCK! oR – 4 billion 380 Thousand Meth heads a nice bag of Crystal.
Or 43 Million WORKING AMERICANS a $10,000 tax break.
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noland
Jan. 11, 2012 at 12:03amHey in 2010 we booted out the rest of those librial bastards, i admit it was a little late, barak already pulled in kat, she would”v had her arss kicked out to. WE are awake NOW! God Bless barak if it wasn”t for him we”ed still be asleep!
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fixer
Jan. 11, 2012 at 12:02amwhy are they going after the Dept of Defense money first when the only thing the govt. is tasked to do is national defense?
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Ghandi was a Republican
Jan. 11, 2012 at 12:16amBecause it is they will never come to terms with our military beating back communism. Libs hold a grudge forever don’t ya know…
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HorseCrazy
Jan. 11, 2012 at 12:21ambecause liberals hate a strong military. they always have it boggles my mind the stupidity
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pamela kay
Jan. 11, 2012 at 12:29amGreat comment FIXER.
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barber2
Jan. 11, 2012 at 12:54amThe Obama Democrats are still mad at General ” Be-Tray-Us.”
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SHOWMESTATEGUY
Jan. 11, 2012 at 1:38amFIXER——
Let’s do the numbers. A few million Americans serving the country in the Armed Forces vs many more Americans that depend on the monthly government check? In an election who is going to win?
You have to give the dem libs credit for the fact that they have built their base up during the last 60 years.
I’m just wondering how they are going to pay for it when everyone is on the government dole? Sorry, the dem libs don’t think that far ahead. Their world is (today) and the only thing they think about is today.
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BetterDays
Jan. 11, 2012 at 8:59amDo you recall the weather underground handbook ” it doesn’t take a weatherman to tell which way the wind blows”, Glenn had us read a few years back? Well according to that the way to destroy the military/ police forces in America was to first involve them in ever increasing numbers of small regional conflicts in many places, then after their moral is ruined reduce the force size to minute numbers, that is if I recall what I read back then correctly.
One things for sure, the two things the Fed Government is supposed to do, Obama and his conspirators are not doing, defense and border security.
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TeacherontheRight
Jan. 11, 2012 at 9:16pmCORRECT! Cut Education! We have so many willing and able local donors to address the issue of cutting education. Our District needs to cut $5 million dollars but does not want to tap into their reserve money. Instead, the require teachers to take a 1.5% pay cut and a 5 year salary freeze. Meanwhile, our District gets a lot of grants, ie federal money, and donations.
Teachers are educated to teach. Let us do our job.
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JP4JOY
Jan. 10, 2012 at 11:55pmAs our government seems to think we have ( $ ) I think it must be time to remind Congress that THEY are the ones responsible for writing the checks. STOP writing the damn checks already!!
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PrivateSectorContractor
Jan. 10, 2012 at 11:48pmThis just proves that people on the dole and/or in prison should not be allowed to vote. Also people who can not show valid ID should also not be allowed to vote. Then let’s see how much free money will be available then. Democrats have mastered the control of the useful idiots, who can argue with free food and beer for that nice guy’s vote.
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barber2
Jan. 11, 2012 at 12:52amDoesn’t sound very socially ” just” to allow those who contribute no money to the pot to get to decide how the pot will be spent . This is what is happening here.
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SHOWMESTATEGUY
Jan. 10, 2012 at 11:34pmWho said that fly over America could not deliver a liberal as bad as the east or west coast? Shame on you Kansas for giving America the midwest version of Nancy Pelosi.
This proves that dem libs are like termites. They infest your house foundation first, if not exterminated, they will bring your whole house down.
Former Kansas Governor Sebelius is more dangerous than the dangerous Pelosi. Sebelius is in control of your medical care. Scary!!!!!!!
Exterminated = vote the dem libs out of power.
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Maxim Crux
Jan. 10, 2012 at 11:33pmNone of that money is real so you really don’t have to worry
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towerguy
Jan. 11, 2012 at 9:31amMax – It may not be backed by anything, but it’s real enough to ruin this country for a generation, if not permanently. That’s real.
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Mr Sanders
Jan. 10, 2012 at 11:32pmAll right!! 1/2 the Porkulus was spent by the 3 top agencies that need to go, along with the EPA & the FCC.
This is great! My Big-G spending my money faster than I make it……. aey, oh, darn?
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WD0331
Jan. 10, 2012 at 11:28pmEnd the DOE, the EPA, the FED, etc, etc, etc…..
Ron Paul 2012!
Time to get serious blazers! Put your money where your mouth is. Ron Paul or Mitt Romney. Take your pic.
Ron Paul 2012!
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oldguy49
Jan. 10, 2012 at 11:47pmi must agree……….not ever being a ron paul fan and am 62 years old, i know that unless we get someone that will get rid of all these government agencies we are still doomed……..all the other canadates want to keep business as usual………….and i must agree with some of his foreign policy…..from vietnam to now it has been 1 person that sent us to war, and we haven’t won any of them…………if they attack us ,blow the hell out of them and come home……..don’t set up housekeeping!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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ehbardin
Jan. 10, 2012 at 11:52pmi’m on board!!!
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Ghandi was a Republican
Jan. 10, 2012 at 11:27pmEnough to make 438,0000 Homeless people MILLIONAIRES!
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Nursenevada
Jan. 10, 2012 at 11:27pmDept of Health & Human Services are the ones who come out to health care facilities and survey them to see if they are meeting all the regulations written for them to receive Medicare payment for services rendered. If you fail to meet a regulation, it’s called a “condition out”. They can then fine the facility (thousands) or shut them down.
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MCDAVE
Jan. 10, 2012 at 11:26pmDid any of this stimulus money improve the economy? Are you better off now than you were 4 years ago? Create any private sector jobs?…This is the biggest RIP OFF of America I have ever seen..
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artistskeptic
Jan. 10, 2012 at 11:57pmJust Obama’s stated objecetive of redistribution of wealth, take from those who will and do and give to those who won’t and don’t. The Marxist POS must go, someway!!!!
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Silversmith
Jan. 10, 2012 at 11:24pmDisgusting. *sigh*
Silversmith
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amerigramma
Jan. 11, 2012 at 5:54pmWhat about the expense that no one ever brings up? When I and many Americans want to reduce the cost of government, we mean we want to reduce the cost of government. How much does it cost to keep our congressional “representatives” comfortable, with their full time pay for life for part time work and sometimes only for one term? They never list what we as taxpayers are paying for all of the salaries for not just the reps, but their ever-increasing staffs? Why are they paid that salary for life? How much do we spend on their free, 100% for life, health insurance? How much do we pay for all the free and subsidized housing and transportation for them? And they don’t even need it what with most of Congress members were well off when they started out anyways and are constantly “compensated” (bribed) by special interest groups for instance the health insurance industry? Why is it that they can get with just voting themselves a raise whenever they feel like it? I want to see the numbers and see them often. I’ve never seen anyone report on the amounts and have never read it anywhere. Aren’t we entitled to see the actual cost of government listed regularly?
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momrules
Jan. 10, 2012 at 11:22pmThis just proves that if spending money could fix the ills of this nation America would still be the wonderful country it was in days past.
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Mtremblay
Jan. 10, 2012 at 11:19pmWhy did we go after DOD first?
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idarusskie
Jan. 10, 2012 at 11:19pmMan I thought the department of energy was bad but at least they did some projects.
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afishfarted
Jan. 10, 2012 at 11:14pmlooks like the win the “Bovine **** Wart” award to me
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OlefromMN
Jan. 10, 2012 at 11:12pmJust when I thought I could not be more depressed today.
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GreenSicko
Jan. 10, 2012 at 11:46pmOlefromMN, The Health department is giving out free drugs for people with depression.
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Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
Jan. 10, 2012 at 11:10pmIt didn’t work, this makes me feel sick.
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FaithfulFriend
Jan. 10, 2012 at 11:03pmTax some rich people. That’ll fix it.
(sarc)
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Salamander
Jan. 11, 2012 at 3:47pmBetter hurry up–soon, there won’t be any left!
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SpankDaMonkey
Jan. 10, 2012 at 10:57pm.
$115,911,817,301 that’ll buy alot of VOTES…………
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TXPilot
Jan. 10, 2012 at 11:10pmThe motivation is simple…..If the government beats down citizens so much that they are forced to depend on the Feds for everything from their food and housing, to their healthcare, you now have an entire population of subservient drones, who have no choice but to do exactly what they are told…..Welcome to the future everyone, I believe the word that describes it best is “slavery”……
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barber2
Jan. 11, 2012 at 12:45amTX: Maybe the Democrats are trying to take us back to the serfdom of the Middle Ages , just as the Islamic jihadis are trying to take us back to the 600′s.
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Rightallalong
Jan. 11, 2012 at 9:52am@TXPILOT – I agree 100%, create a dependant class. As LBJ infamously said when he passed the vaunted Civil Rights Act…
In a phone conversation (on tape at the LBJ Library) with Sen. Russell(D) of Georgia, LBJ said, “That’ll keep the ^&%$%$@ voting Democrat for the next 200 years.”
Its a new form of slavery. Too bad none of the presidential candidates that are not seen as kooks or radicals have suggested ending some of these exact departments. And if someone did state clearly that we should end some of these departments the ‘Right thinking Republicans’ on this site would wail,knash their teeth and decry how they are out of touch, old, an idiot or crazy.
It is a sad day when common sense answers are looked upon as being out of the mainstream.
Time to wake up America. Just having a president with an ‘R’ next to their name is not going to change anything with out some radical new ideas and thinking. It is obvious that the old ideas and thinking of both parties have led us (at different spends, yes) to this point.
Store, food, water, weapons and ammo – and if you can get some land, know every square foot of it and be prepared to ride out a VERY bumpy ride. You people stuck in the cities – well, good luck when the Occupy Wall Street turns into ‘Occupy your House’ to get your food and flat screen TV.
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Mtremblay
Jan. 10, 2012 at 10:57pmWhat does the “Funds Announced” section mean?
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Mtremblay
Jan. 10, 2012 at 11:06pmI say to start disband the Department of Education First! Holycrap and most high school kids do not know who George Washington was
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Mtremblay
Jan. 10, 2012 at 11:17pmI want to know what went to what in each Department. I cant believe they went after the Department of Defense first!
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WD0331
Jan. 10, 2012 at 11:25pmRon Paul will end the DOE in his first year!
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ThePostman
Jan. 10, 2012 at 10:57pmOne giant transfer of wealth from future generations of poor whites to crack addicted peoples of color. Racism is alive and well in the whitehouse!
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LobsterBoy
Jan. 10, 2012 at 11:10pmDon’t forget the cut that goes to all of the liberal coffers and cronies. They get theirs off the top. Then what’s left over goes to keeping their constituency poor and needy.
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