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Kicking the Can Down the Road Again - Highlights
 Authority to borrow money extended until Feb. 7. Happy Holidays! Government shutdown ends, federal agencies funded through Jan. 15. Furloughed workers receive back pay. Ah, another taxpayer-paid vacation! H&HS Department to certify it can verify income for eligibility of gubbamint subsidies for O'care. That's why getting signed up is taking so long, and always will. But it won't be too long before the scammers figure out how to beat the system. Next July 1, the department's I.G. will report on the agency's safeguards for preventing fraud. I'm sure it'll be thousands of pages.  House-Senate committee will negotiate over issues like budget deficits and spending levels. Bargainers must issue report by Dec. 13, but they are not required to come to agreement.Like all the other taxpayer-funded, United-Nations-like "commissions" to study the "Problem". Lookit the can roll! Best news: No pay raise for members of Congress in 2014. Also, an extra $294 million for Department of Veterans Affairs to reduce backlogs of benefits claims. Not to mention extending the expired authority for DoD to support African forces hunting warlord Joseph Kony, leader of rebel group Lord's Resistance Army. They must think it's a Christian group. Special interest groups get their cut: $636 million for firefighting for the Interior Department and the Forest Service; work continues on Olmstead lock in the Ohio River between Kentucky and Illinois Posted by: Bobby 2013-10-17 |
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