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To: Alighieri who wrote (718819)	5/31/2013 7:29:32 PM
From: i-node	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1579131

>> There are plenty of people who use and benefit from government programs on the right as there are on the left. There isn't a single black person anywhere within miles of this county and there are lots of people on disability, welfare, unemployment, medicare, social security and medicaid. I don't disagree about this; we have become a nation of entitlement, where people EXPECT to receive some taxpayer largesse. This is what 30 years of welfare state gets you. The disability data represents a microcosm. It has increased, outpacing population growth, since its inception. Why? Because people have come to think they're "entitled" to receive it if they get a sore shoulder or can't walk without a little pain. The reality, of course, is that as we grow older, we get aches and pains. So, you end up with this growth in disability benefits, not all Democrats of course, because society in general, thinks it is owed to them. The problem, though, is that society cannot possibly pay for it. I think your post totally makes my point for me. Over time, if society can borrow without limitation, it will suck up future generations' standards of living to make life easy for the current generations. They'll take it because it is there. This is NOT the fault of the beneficiaries. It is the fault of a state that is out of control, a dysfunctional government, which can't say "no." It is going to stop now, or it is going to stop when your kids and mine have no future standards of living. I've made my choice and you have made yours. I can sleep at night with mine. I'm not sure about you.

To: Alighieri who wrote (718819)	5/31/2013 7:31:27 PM
From: joseffy	Respond to of 1579131

Eric Holder's Long History Of Lying To Congress ................................................ Investor's Business Daily ^ \| May 31, 2013 \| IBD EDITORIALS Before he lied to Congress while under oath about what he knew about targeting reporters, he lied about Fast and Furious. As early as the New Black Panthers case, Eric Holder had a problem with the truth. That the House Judiciary Committee is investigating whether Attorney General Eric Holder lied under oath during his May 15 testimony on Department of Justice (DOJ) surveillance of reporters comes as no surprise. People have forgotten about the New Black Panther case, perhaps the most clear-cut case of voter suppression and intimidation ever. On Election Day 2008, New Black Panther Party members in military garb were videotaped intimidating voters outside a Philadelphia polling place. The slam-dunk prosecution of these thugs was dropped by Holder's Justice Department. When asked why, Holder, on March 1, 2011, testified before the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, Science and Related Agencies that the "decisions made in the New Black Panther Party case were made by career attorneys in the department." Holder lied, for the decisions were made by political appointees. J. Christian Adams, a former career DOJ attorney in the Voting Rights Section, testified before the U.S. Civil Rights Commission that it was Associate Attorney General Thomas Perrelli, an Obama political appointee, who overruled a unanimous recommendation for prosecution by Adams and his associates. Documents obtained by Judicial Watch and a ruling by Judge Reggie B. Walton of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia in response to a suit brought by the group show that "political appointees within DOJ were conferring about the status and resolution of the New Black Panther Party case in the days preceding the DOJ's dismissal of claims in that case." (Excerpt) Read more at news.investors.com ...

To: Alighieri who wrote (718819)	5/31/2013 7:31:43 PM
From: joseffy	Respond to of 1579131

IRS Ignores Senate Deadline to Answer Questions About Scandal

To: Alighieri who wrote (718819)	5/31/2013 7:38:58 PM
From: joseffy	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1579131

Obama: Islam trumps the First Amendment

To: Alighieri who wrote (718819)	6/1/2013 11:48:42 PM
From: THE WATSONYOUTH	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1579131

There isn't a single black person anywhere within miles of this county and there are lots of people on disability, welfare, unemployment, medicare, social security and medicaid. ....oh really?.....what county is that Al?.......where you live??