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    Nightmare: Medicare's Past and Future

    APRIL 18, 2012 4:01PM

    By Samasiam


    Topics: healthcare, obamacare, deficit, entitlements, health, baby boomers, medicare, politics

    • 21 Ratings
    • 405 Views
    • 23 Comments
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    Fear and Loathing at the Disability Hearing

    APRIL 9, 2012 1:54PM

    By bobbot


    Topics: served my country, paid for it anyway, rights, entitlements

    • 1 Ratings
    • 103 Views
    • 0 Comments
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    The Pension Plan Predicament

    FEBRUARY 8, 2012 2:45PM

    By Matthew Ward


    Topics: politics, news, economy, economics, entitlements, pensions

    • 0 Ratings
    • 420 Views
    • 2 Comments
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    "Conflicted" Voters Hold Key to 2012 Race

    DECEMBER 29, 2011 10:27AM

    By Ted Frier


    Topics: politics, economics, welfare, republican party, democratic party, compassionate conservatism, 2012 election, barack obama, liberalism, conservatism, tom edsall, mitt romney, entitlements, freedom, statism, race, new deal

    • 3 Ratings
    • 338 Views
    • 6 Comments
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    Just Not Enough Pie To Go Around

    AUGUST 6, 2011 7:39PM

    By William Hazelgrove


    Topics: fiction, writers, literary, writing, entitlements, depression, crash, foreclosure, recession, great recession, darwinism

    • 2 Ratings
    • 204 Views
    • 3 Comments
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    Social Security, Entitled Or Entitlement?

    JULY 23, 2011 12:35AM

    By Mac McGovern


    Topics: benefits, entitlements, social security, america, economy

    • 1 Ratings
    • 564 Views
    • 0 Comments
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    The real, wealthier, entitlement class

    JUNE 27, 2011 10:38AM

    By zacherydtaylor


    Topics: entitlements, workers compensation, the working class, chris matthews, tobacco subsidies, trade secrecy laws, proprietary information, planned obsolescence, people’s history of the united states, howard zinn, rhodes scholarship, bill clinton, chris christie, google, mass media, melville nimmer

    • 9 Ratings
    • 871 Views
    • 8 Comments
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    Sucking the Life Out of Americans

    MARCH 18, 2011 8:56PM

    By Graham Sale


    Topics: entitlements, budget cuts, evil, unions, teachers, repuclicans, tea party, political agenda, graham sale, cartoonist, commercial appeal, memphis, tn, politians, human serivices, women's health

    • 0 Ratings
    • 614 Views
    • 0 Comments
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    Obama, Congress, Cabinet Members, Czars and Federal Workers:

    MARCH 3, 2011 3:27PM

    By PonteVedraMan


    Topics: open+call, afghanistan, military, foreign aid, unions, public service employee unions, medicare, social security, entitlements, presidential cabinet, czars, muslims, islam, mosques, foreign aid, senate, congress, michelle obama, barack hussein obama

    • Editor's Pick
    • 9 Ratings
    • 1619 Views
    • 13 Comments
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    More Bad Strategy in Obama’s Budget

    FEBRUARY 17, 2011 8:28AM

    By Steve Klingaman


    Topics: department of defense medical plan, rockefeller foundation study, robert reich, pell grants, entitlements, joan walsh, george will, budget cuts, heating cost subsidies, 2011 federal budget, obama budget, politics

    • 0 Ratings
    • 328 Views
    • 0 Comments
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    Republican Leaders Again Equivocate On Spending Cuts

    JANUARY 30, 2011 10:28PM

    By Steven J. Gulitti


    Topics: politics, barack obama, entitlements, deficit spending, taxes, congressional republicans, john boehner, tea party movement, mitch mcconnell

    • 3 Ratings
    • 435 Views
    • 32 Comments
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    Obama In Wonderland

    JANUARY 26, 2011 9:36AM

    By DJohn


    Topics: sotu, obama, president, dems, gop, platitudes, hyperbole, congres, spending, entitlements, people, america

    • Editor's Pick
    • 1 Ratings
    • 759 Views
    • 2 Comments
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    The 2010 Election: Age Will Be Served

    NOVEMBER 4, 2010 12:21PM

    By Richard Erlich


    Topics: spoils, entitlements, social security, taxes, age, youth, demographics, election, politics

    • 6 Ratings
    • 691 Views
    • 9 Comments
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    Useless Eaters: The Stigmatization of Health Problems

    AUGUST 25, 2010 7:03PM

    By Dr Stuart Jeanne Bramhall


    Topics: carl bernstein, nazi germany, gehlen, office of public information, fascism, corporatism, social security disability, mental illness, stigma, useless eaters, entitlements, operation mockingbird, cia, allen dulles, hitler, goebbels, propaganda, mind control, disinformation

    • Editor's Pick
    • 7 Ratings
    • 3736 Views
    • 25 Comments
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    German Millionaires Volunteer to Pay More Tax

    JUNE 18, 2010 3:26AM

    By stickyfeet


    Topics: financial crisis, government spending, debt, deficit, entitlement spending, entitlements, social security, socialism, social system, social programs, wealth concentration, wealth, germany, tax reform, taxes, politics, news, economy, business

    • 2 Ratings
    • 341 Views
    • 3 Comments
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    Tea time: being the memoir of a tax protester

    APRIL 16, 2010 6:50PM

    By Craig Hicks


    Topics: taxes, allegory, fiction, media, politics, entitlements, tea party

    • 1 Ratings
    • 222 Views
    • 4 Comments
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    Bunning Tongue Twister?

    MARCH 2, 2010 8:18PM

    By FrogTown Diva


    Topics: entitlements, deficit, senator bunning

    • 1 Ratings
    • 342 Views
    • 7 Comments
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    Music for Financial Crisis: Was Ponzi Wrong, Right, or Left?

    FEBRUARY 28, 2010 6:59PM

    By McGarrett50


    Topics: music monday, metric, music, ponzi scheme, health care reform, greece, euro crisis, obama, obamacare, social security, entitlements, news, politics

    • Editor's Pick
    • 4 Ratings
    • 950 Views
    • 3 Comments
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    End Game 2: Obama, SocSec, and Corporate Taxation

    JANUARY 18, 2009 5:15PM

    By Mick Arran


    Topics: banks, entitlements, social security reform, brack obama, bail-out, economy, business

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