Ignorance might be bliss
temporarily, but it does a lot of damage in the long run
What’s all this fuss
about Fast and Furious?
For an
explanation about the issues involved, listen to the NPR interview with attorney
John Hinderaker: “This is why the ATF
whistle-blowers who eventually brought the program to light thought it was not
just misguided, but crazy: they could see no possible law enforcement
justification for letting thousands of guns walk into the hands of drug gangs.”
Read more here
How much is 15.8
trillion? You don’t want to know
“Consider this: If you have a briefcase full of $100 bills, you'd have
roughly $1 million. Few of us have ever seen that much money in one place, but
we can at least imagine what it looks like. But a trillion dollars in $100
bills would weigh 22 million pounds!” Read more here
And where did some of
this 15.8 trillion go? You don't want to know that, either
Did you know that
low-income people can use SNAP (food stamps) to buy soda pop and candy? But not multivitamins? Well, it gets
worse. 65-year-old convenience store
clerk Jackie Whiton just lost her job for refusing to take an EBT card to pay for
cigarettes. The foster mother of
the would-be cigarette buyer complained. (If
he’s old enough to buy cigarettes, does he need a foster mother?) “Whiton
said she does not object to using the programs for food assistance, but does
not think a person should be able to use public funds to buy cigarettes. 'They
can’t even buy toilet paper with the EBT grocery cards but they can buy beer
and cigarettes with the EBT cash cards,' Whiton said, 'Go figure.'" Read more here
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