JAP69's Blog

Kids are going to go hungry.

Massive layoffs will occur.

People will become homeless.

Aircraft carriers will not be refueled.

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Maybe they should cancel that order for 1.5 billion rounds of non defense ammo. What does ammo cost? About $.50 per round. That is 750 million dollars right there.

Obama has been running a deficit of about 1 trillion per year more than the Bush years. Where is Obama spending this added one trillion per year?

The American people deserve to see the federal budget audit item by item.

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Charts: How Big Pork Screws Small Towns
http://www.motherjones.com/tom-philpott/2012/11/
industrial-scale-hog-farming-screws-small-towns

excerpt:

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The case of the phantom ballots: an electoral whodunit

http://www.miamiherald.com/2013/02/23/v-print/3250726/
the-case-of-the-phantom-ballots.html

Heee Haawww.

Patrick on the pole in the 500, HEEEEE HAWWWW

round and round we go.

I hate the road course races.

"Fiscal cliff" bill had some hidden pork
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-18563_162-57561726/fiscal-cliff-bill-had-some-hidden-pork/

excerpt: emphasis mine
All told, the fiscal cliff law designed to reduce the deficit, added $74 billion in spending through changes in the tax law.

http://www.labor.ny.gov/stats/minimum_wage.asp
excerpt:
New York State's Minimum Wage is $7.25 Prior to 1962, state minimum wage rates varied from industry to industry.
October 15, 1962  Increased from $1.00 to $1.15
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cost of living calculator
https://www.aier.org/article/48-cost-living-calculator

Minimum wage NY 1962____1.15__ "I input in calculator"
cost of living increase to 2013__$8.74
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Not to far off from $9.00 proposed by the president.
Something is not right for the minimum wage worker @ $7.25 an hour.

I will go with Pres Obama's plan on this one.

Reasonable calculations with cost of living increase.

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Senate Democrats air grievances with rollout of healthcare law

http://thehill.com/blogs/healthwatch/health-reform-implementation
/283141-dems-grill-obama-administration-in-tough
-healthcare-hearing#ixzz2LSDc5SBN

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With Election Over, Obama Announces Medicare Cuts to Fund ObamaCare

http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2013/02/20/
With-Election-Over-Obama-Announces
-Medicare-Cuts-To-Fund-ObamaCare

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Organizing for Action Continues to Run Afoul of IRS

http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/organizing
-action-continues-run-afoul-irs_701414.html

excerpt:
Despite assurances to the contrary, the former website of Obama for America, now Organizing for Action (OFA),

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Characteristics of Minimum Wage Workers: 2011
http://www.bls.gov/cps/minwage2011tbls.htm

Who ever wrote the one I read yesterday was still a great draft for a speech.

Should be printed and sent to your local school with show of support for what is in it.

I mentioned I had trouble growing a garden where pollination was a factor in the crop grown. Thinking maybe I will plant stuff where pollination is not necessary.

Root crops, greens stuff like that.

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Boehner challenges Senate Dems to take lead, pass Obama second-term agenda

http://thehill.com/homenews/house/283139-boehner
-challenges-senate-dems-to-pass-obamas-agenda

KEEPING BUTE OUT OF THE FOOD CHAIN
http://www.paulickreport.com/news/ray-s-paddock/
keeping-bute-out-of-the-food-chain

excerpt:
Bute is banned for food animals, our horses are not food animals.

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UK vets have 'repeatedly raised concerns' over bute in food
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-21383362

excerpt:
Many of the animals killed for food in these countries were once racehorses, and the use of bute at racetracks across the US is so widespread that one scientist speaking to the New York Times called these horses "walking pharmacies".