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Republicans on Parade–2/28/2013

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The Worst Place for Koch Suckers

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How the Minority Won the House

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Why Citizens United Must Be Overturned!

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Super PAC Scam

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Republicans Sue to Buy Elections

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Stop the Money Flood!

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Scalia and His Cobweb Thinking

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SCOTUS: New Term

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Walmart Profits from Food Stamp Program and Welfare Queens $28Billion Annually

Editor's Note: This is an opinion-based contributor piece. The views expressed by the author do not necessarily reflect Benzinga.

If America ever descends to hell in a handbasket, it will be Wal-Mart (NYSE: WMT) that imports the carefully crafted, four-cents-an-hour basket straight from a Chinese labor camp.

How can I be so sure? Because this corporate giant manages to be on the receiving end of both angles of the Food Stamp program – it is the largest reason why we need a Food Stamp program and yet it reaps the ultimate benefit of the program. Like Homer Simpson once said of alcohol, Wal-Mart is the cause of, and its own solution to, all life's problems. How can it be that it is both? Simple.

First, the benefits. Wal-Mart receives between 25 and 40 percent of all Food Stamp spending. Yes, you read that correctly. Up to 2 in 5 dollars spent by all Food Stamp recipients is spent at Wal-Mart.

Considering that the federal government spent approximately $72 billion on Food Stamps last fiscal year , Wal-Mart would have earned up to $28.8 billion in sales from the program alone. The company brought in $448 billion in sales last year, so this government program is clearly a big winner for them. Unfortunately, their win is our loss, at least as far as taxpayers go. You see, Wal-Mart is the reason why many of these people are on Food Stamps to begin with. Wal-Mart's low wages and purposeful underemployment keep their workers just rich enough to occasionally make rent and just poor enough to be eligible for public assistance like Food Stamps.

•Wal-Mart's intentionally low wages force employees to need approximately $420,000 per year, per store, totalling $2.66 BILLION annually in Food Stamps and other taxpayer assistance...to survive.
•Wal-Mart's intentionally low wages cost the country HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS of dollars in payroll tax deductions for Federal, State, and Local taxes.
•Wal-Mart's intentionally low wages cost our communities the ability to hire and retain important public service workers like firefighters, police officers, maintenance workers, and teachers.
•Wal-Mart's intentionally low wages cost our communities with their increased need for those same public services they are underfunding.
•Wal-Mart's intentionally low wages and lack of covered benefits cost taxpayers over $1.02 BILLION a year in healthcare costs.
•Wal-Mart's intentionally low wages cost taxpayers as much as $225 MILLION in free and reduced price lunches for school-age children.
•Wal-Mart's intentionally low wages cost taxpayers over $780 MILLION in tax deductions for low-income families.

Read more: http://www.benzinga.com/news/12/07/2738503/wal-mart-americas-true-welfare-queen#ixzz22HLQYtTw

Read more: http://www.benzinga.com/news/12/07/2738503/wal-mart-americas-true-welfare-queen#ixzz22HLC2HiREditor's Note: This is an opinion-based contributor piece. The views expressed by... more

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Supreme Court to Rule on Prop 8

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Scalia's Surprising Admission ...

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Supreme Court, Thank You for upholding the Affordable Care Act

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Inside SCOTUS

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A Romney Win Will Be An OH NO For SCOTUS

If Obama manages to lose to Romney, a blatant unabashed liar and a flagrant SCREWBALL, the Supreme Court will become a dictatorship and not an impartial, objective observer who can make decisions according to the constitution and what is good for this nation and its people; A tyranny court of far right-wing, goofy and dangerous decisions.

When this court, in 2000, picked our next president against the will of the people, my one thought was, OH NO MORE RIGHT-WING JUSTICES WILL BE APPOINTED. Of course this SCOTUS decision to appoint Bush, also wrecked havoc on our country and society which left us quite bruised and damaged, still the USA, with time, was permitted to heal somewhat, with the election of an intelligent brain. Yet Dubya’s conservative picks for the court has continued to EASE ON DOWN THE ROAD and vote along an ideological line, so that, in a sense means that old George W Bush is still sort of, YIKES, at the helm. More conservative appointees (from Romney) will clinch the deal and we won’t need those 9 justices anymore, just sign on the dotted line and enact laws that will favor the rich and make the poor even poorer until they won’t be called poor any longer but slaves. So be it. thinkingblue
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Court's Recent Rulings Shake Up Partisan Narrative

June 29, 2012

It's a bit less likely now than a week ago that you'll hear people accuse the Supreme Court of being politicized.

That's because this week, the court ended its session with two controversial decisions — neither one of which was decided on the usual and predictable split between the five justices appointed by Republican presidents and the four appointed by Democrats.

But that doesn't make the court any less of a political animal.

Complaints about "activist courts" are common — and that phrase is easy to define, says Jeffrey Segal, a Stony Brook University professor. "Activism is a decision that people don't like."

A partisan court is a little different.

"Political polarization means that, by and large, the center is disappearing," Segal says.

There was a time when justices appointed by Democrats and Republicans intermingled in their judicial decisions. Ideological lines were murkier, and it was harder to predict who would fall where in a split decision. The last two justices who retired, David Souter and John Paul Stevens, were both Republican appointees who usually voted with the court's liberals.

Since they left, the court has settled into a partisan pattern of 5 to 4. MORE HERE http://www.npr.org/2012/06/29/155985744/courts-recent-rulings-shake-up-partisan-narrativeIf Obama manages to lose to Romney, a blatant unabashed liar and a flagrant SCREWBALL,... more

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Obamacare: Historic Victory

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Congrats to Jacki Schechner and Current TV for beating CNN, GOP-TV and MSNBC with the Correct story on SCOTUS ACA Ruling.

Is it me or is Wolf Blitzer just a sadder version of Ron Burgundy? When everyone else... more

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Supreme Court Decision On Obamacare

What we've been waiting for!

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SB 1070 Decision Explained

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