Wednesday, October 30, 2013

Welfare Recipients Receive More Benefits Than Permanently Disabled Combat Vet And Still Not Happy — visiontoamerica.com — Readability

Welfare Recipients Receive More Benefits Than Permanently Disabled Combat Vet And Still Not Happy — visiontoamerica.com — Readability: "Right now in America, there are approximately 3.5 million disabled veterans drawing, on average, $1,000 in VA disability. Many of these veterans suffer from permanent disabilities that have greatly reduced their ability to earn an income, if not snuffed that ability out entirely, and many of them do not function as well with regular life skills and capabilities as they did before becoming injured in service to their country."

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Global Warming Gets Nearly Twice As Much Taxpayer Money As Border Security — visiontoamerica.com — Readability

Global Warming Gets Nearly Twice As Much Taxpayer Money As Border Security — visiontoamerica.com — Readability: "New estimates show the federal government will spend nearly twice as much fighting global warming this year than on U.S. border security.

The White House reported to House Republicans that there are 18 federal agencies engaged in global warming activities in 2013, funding a wide range of programs, including scientific research, international climate assistance, incentivizing renewable energy technology and subsidies to renewable energy producers. Global warming spending is estimated to cost $22.2 billion this year, and $21.4 billion next year."

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3 Trillion Reasons Not to Raise Taxes Again — blog.heritage.org — Readability

3 Trillion Reasons Not to Raise Taxes Again — blog.heritage.org — Readability: "Do you know how much President Obama has raised taxes?

Oh, by about $3 trillion.

In a new paper, Heritage expert Curtis Dubay reminds us:

President Obama has already raised taxes substantially twice—first as part of Obamacare and then as part of the “fiscal cliff” deal earlier this year. Together, those increases raised taxes by more than $1.3 trillion over 10 years. Including the payroll tax increase that was also part of the fiscal cliff deal, taxes have risen by almost $3 trillion during President Obama’s tenure."

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The ObamaCare Awakening: Americans Losing Their Coverage By Political Design — conservativebyte.com — Readability

The ObamaCare Awakening: Americans Losing Their Coverage By Political Design — conservativebyte.com — Readability: "They are either doing this on purpose or are totally ignorant on how the real world works. Either way is horrible.
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For all of the Affordable Care Act’s technical problems, at least one part is working on schedule. The law is systematically dismantling the individual insurance market, as its architects intended from the start."

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Healthcare.gov most expensive website ever — conservativebyte.com — Readability

Healthcare.gov most expensive website ever — conservativebyte.com — Readability: "Unreal. To think they spent all this money on a debacle that doesn’t work.
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American taxpayers have been frustrated by the failures of the Obamacare Healthcare.gov website – wrong responses, no responses, messages to just wait or come back later – but a headline in Digital Trends perhaps best captures the outrage over the hundreds of millions of dollars spent on the unsuccessful project."

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Obama Lied When He Said Obamacare Would Let You Keep Your Plan, Your Doctor, and Lower Premiums by $2,500 a Year — conservativebyte.com — Readability

Obama Lied When He Said Obamacare Would Let You Keep Your Plan, Your Doctor, and Lower Premiums by $2,500 a Year — conservativebyte.com — Readability: "I’ve been getting a series of e-mails for the past week, when the intense detail of the failure of the Obamacare website rollout began. And over the course of past programs I have repeatedly mentioned that Obama promised that your premium would come down $2,500 and you’d get to keep your plan. And I’ve actually had people send me e-mails, “You keep saying that. I don’t remember him saying that. Where did he say that?”"

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New Yorker article on homelessness doesn't mention Obama | The Daily Caller

New Yorker article on homelessness doesn't mention Obama | The Daily Caller: "he New Yorker magazine’s latest issue features a nearly 10,000 word article on the rise in homelessness in New York City — but the piece doesn’t mention the name “Barack Obama” a single time."

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Socialized Medicine Horror Stories — eaglerising.com — Readability

Socialized Medicine Horror Stories — eaglerising.com — Readability: "A former director of the British National Health Services (the program that is analogous to Obamacare in Britain) died after having a follow up stomach surgery postponed four different times over a nine-month period."

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Nancy Pelosi Defends Obamacare Problems: “This Is What Happens When You Do Something Big” — americanoverlook.com — Readability

Nancy Pelosi Defends Obamacare Problems: “This Is What Happens When You Do Something Big” — americanoverlook.com — Readability: "House minority leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) defended the problems in Obamacare’s rollout citing, “this is what happens when you do something big.”"

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