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| 2013-07-19 |
| h/t IMAO The number of Americans receiving subsidized food assistance from the federal government has risen to 101 million, representing roughly a third of the U.S. population. The U.S. Department of Agriculture estimates that a total of 101,000,000 people currently participate in at least one of the 15 food programs offered by the agency, at a cost of $114 billion in fiscal year 2012. That means the number of Americans receiving food assistance has surpassed the number of full-time private sector workers in the U.S. |
| Posted by:g(r)omgoru |
| #6 any 'Presidential Alerts' could NOT be disabled. You'll need to get these to take part in the Two Minute Hate. Personally, I can't wait, 'cause that Emmanuel Zimmermanstein guy is a total Enemy of the People. |
| Posted by: SteveS 2013-07-19 22:50 |
| #5 Fear notteth, Amerika, come 2015 the Fed will be changing = fudging? accounting ledgers + moving our mighty "National Debt" over to the "Global/World/Star/Space Debt" Ledger. Officially, the OWG Mighty USSA = OWG Weak USR Global SSR may still be responsible for only 25% like we do per the current UNO - UNOFFICIALLY, we'll still be expected to be the primary Principal under OWG + still pay off most or all of our Debt + the OWG's. [I CAN'T DRIVE "25"! here]. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2013-07-19 22:35 |
| #4 B's post reminded me of a notice I received the other day concerning my cell phone service; there was an upgrade being done to 'the system' that would allow me to deactivate Amber Alerts and other such, if I wished, but any 'Presidential Alerts' could NOT be disabled. Telescreen comes to real life. |
| Posted by: USN, Ret. 2013-07-19 21:14 |
| #3 California's unemployment rate dropped to from 8.6% to 8.5% The third quarter that it's dropped. Curiously enough, that third-quarter drop means that, if you're long-term unemployed, you get to collect your last ten weeks of unemployment compensation. |
| Posted by: Pappy 2013-07-19 14:44 |
| #2 1984 - Ministries Ministry of Plenty Thesis: When controlling parties take over others, those people may rebel and disagree with what the party is for, but yet, they will continue to follow and obey them. We are "Miniplenty". In our ministry, we look after economic affairs. Others would say we would starve people, but we want to make sure that the privilleged people get proper food. Our ministry's job it to make sure that we get everything that we need. We make sure that all the food and items are sent to us. We give out the good food to Inner Party and the alright food to the rest of the parties. Others would say we starve people, but all we do is give better food for those who work in a higher paid job. Example: The Inner Party is the upper-class in Oceania. They are privilged. They get better food and drinks. They are able to turn off the telescreens, not like the other people. People such as O'Brien get these privilges. When Winston was at the Ministry of Love, he was not given much food or drink in which, became very skinny and sick Reduction of the amount of chocolate given to each person. It went from 30 grammes to 20 grammes. Even though the ministry is controlling over the amount of food and drink the people get, those people would get tortured if they rebel, but would continue to obey the ministry in order to survive. WAR IS PEACE FREEDOM IS SLAVERY IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2013-07-19 07:51 |
| #1 And the We Buy your Wif'e Jewelry shops are everywhere because your Unemployment benefits ran out last year. Let's all sing it... |
| Posted by: Threater Flusoper9823 2013-07-19 04:43 |