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ONE out of FOUR children is on Foodstamp

With food stamp use at record highs and climbing every month, a program once scorned as a failed welfare scheme now helps feed one in eight Americans and one in four children.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/11/29/one-in-eight-americans-on_n_373027.html


Pumping markets using debt bubble and computer programming.

Trillions are sitting in the markets as most of big funds are in since March 2009 low. Obviously they don't care no one else to buy since they can just mark down using computer programming.

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Passed ~

They always do this kind of scheme and scam in the middle of night, weekends, holidays....

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updated 11:25 p.m.EST, Thu December 16, 2010

The U.S. House passed the $858 billion tax deal negotiated by White House, top Senate Republicans.



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HARRY TRUMAN

Harry Truman didn't defraud Americans and America.

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While today's presidents are financially set for life from publishing and consulting gigs when they leave the Oval Office, just 57 years ago that wasn't the case.

When Harry Truman's term ended in 1953, he didn't have any savings to speak of, and he felt taking a corporate job would cheapen the presidency. His only income was a $112-a-month pension from his days in the Army.

Truman decided that the best way to drum up some cash was to sell his memoirs, for which he got a $670,000 advance. By the time he paid taxes and his assistants, though, Truman only netted a few grand on the two-volume work.

Eventually his financial straits grew so dire that Congress passed the Former Presidents Act in 1958 to guarantee annual pensions of $25,000 to former presidents.