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Hi’. Argentina elected Javier Milei (Reuters) to fix their country’s budget. Explicitly. Milei is pledging economic shock therapy. His plans include shutting the central bank, ditching the peso, and slashing spending, potentially painful reforms that...
by Vuld Edone
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on Thu Mar 21, 2024 at 11:00 AM PDT
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by republicinsanity
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on Fri Jan 26, 2024 at 05:00 PM PST
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This post is basically to help me, and anybody else that is confused. I have seen several articles, both on DailyKos and on other sites that seem to give different stories about what the continuing resolution that has been passed by congress (both...
by jwgarman
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on Thu Nov 16, 2023 at 06:35 PM PST
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People holding up the corrupt machine that runs San Francisco as a liberal or progressive government are woefully misinformed. They operate to cover their own asses (recall the DA because he dared to hold police accountable and was investigating the...
by MisterC
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on Tue Sep 26, 2023 at 07:28 PM PDT
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I’m not surprised Lauren Boebert doesn’t know how to behave in a theater. I don’t suppose she’s attended many theatrical performances in her life. Congresswoman Boebert is what we used to call underprivileged. Her mother was 18, when she was born. Her...
by MeJean
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on Mon Sep 18, 2023 at 06:51 PM PDT
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By MICHAEL GOLDBERG Associated Press/Report for America JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — As Brett Favre became ensnared in media attention for his connection to Mississippi's sprawling welfare scandal, Gov. ...
by Associated Press
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on Sun Sep 03, 2023 at 01:00 PM PDT
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by Geoff Pender Mississippi Today � Ninety percent of likely Mississippi voters said they are concerned about the Mississippi welfare scandal and government corruption in general, according to a ...
by Mississippi Today
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on Sun Sep 03, 2023 at 04:00 PM PDT
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With Republicans pushing for work requirements in the debt ceiling negotiations, I thought it might be a good time to give you my unscientific research on this favorite Republican topic: Making people work who don’t want to work! My research comes...
by b3LLsb33r
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on Tue May 23, 2023 at 05:45 PM PDT
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Today’s (5/16/2023) MarketPlace had a story about for profit companies that manage work requirements for welfare programs. It is a prime example of how for profit companies parasitize government welfare programs for their own profit while leaving...
by Glaisne
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on Tue May 16, 2023 at 04:56 PM PDT
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Whether it's adult children moving back in with parents , parents moving back�in with adult children�to manage costs, being rejected by ...
by TealBomb
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on Wed Apr 19, 2023 at 04:20 PM PDT
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Iowa’s big business interests have been lobbying for and are getting an opportunity to loosen up some of those pesky child labor laws. A new state legislative bill, SF 167, filed by state Sen. Jason Schultz (R-Schleswig) would give kids the opportunity...
by Walter Einenkel
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on Tue Feb 07, 2023 at 01:32 PM PST
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The ongoing saga of massive welfare fraud and corruption with a capital “C” continues in Mississippi. On Friday, lawyers for welfare scam defendant Austin Smith filed a subpoena for former Republican Gov. Phil Bryant’s last few years of digital...
by Walter Einenkel
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on Mon Oct 10, 2022 at 01:07 PM PDT
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The past couple of years has revealed all kinds of grift using funds meant to help people in order to line various grifters’ pockets. Probably the highest profile grifter in recent memory is twice-impeached Donald Trump. The second-highest on that list...
by Walter Einenkel
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on Thu Sep 29, 2022 at 02:05 PM PDT
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We need all the Floridians who are able to stay online to check in periodically . This Ian hurricane is a monster. Some of us will be able to stay online and some of us won’t but we will check in as best we can. We are hunkered down and waiting for the...
by Vetwife
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on Wed Sep 28, 2022 at 07:13 AM PDT
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Brett Favre didn’t stop at lobbying for millions of dollars of Mississippi welfare money to go toward a new volleyball stadium at the university where his daughter was playing volleyball, or at taking $1.1 million in state welfare money for speeches he...
by Laura Clawson
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on Mon Sep 26, 2022 at 06:35 AM PDT
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Former Director of the Mississippi Department of Human Services (DHS) John Davis pleaded guilty on Thursday to “multiple federal and state charges relating to the misuse of funds meant for poor families with children.” Davis oversaw a massive fraud of...
by Walter Einenkel
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on Thu Sep 22, 2022 at 11:35 AM PDT
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Mississippi officials misused welfare money to build NFL Brett Favre's daughter a volleyball stadium The first stories about former NFL quarterback Brett Favre and how he was paid millions of dollars out of Mississippi’s welfare fund for speeches he never delivered were a real grim reminder of how corruption is inherently craven. An audit of the...
by Walter Einenkel
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on Tue Sep 13, 2022 at 06:06 PM PDT
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Not often I see the news of welfare fraud when I am reading my morning sports but ESPN had an article here today titled Mississippi Department of Human Services sues Brett Favre, others over welfare misspending … The lawsuit says the defendants...
by tjlord
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on Tue May 10, 2022 at 07:38 AM PDT
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Sen. Ron Johnson thinks he has a solution to the labor crisis in child care. Typically of Johnson, his proposed solution craps in equal measure on child care workers, women receiving public assistance, and Wisconsin state law. “When you have mothers on...
by Laura Clawson
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on Thu Mar 17, 2022 at 09:49 AM PDT
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Mandates are anti-freedom. Vaccine mandates for military members are anti-freedom. Mask requirements are anti-freedom. All kinds of public health measures are anti-freedom, according to the Republican Party. Unless, of course, we are talking about...
by Walter Einenkel
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on Wed Jan 12, 2022 at 02:17 PM PST
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