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marezdotes

(110 posts)
Sat Dec 28, 2013, 03:04 PM Dec 2013

No money for SNAP or extended unemployment benefits

but 60 million was found somewhere to renovate the US Capitol building and it's rarely ever used. Sickening, IMO.

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msongs

(73,365 posts)
1. obama's got tons of it for his drones. gotta stamp out those pesky wedding parties ya know nt
Sat Dec 28, 2013, 05:51 PM
Dec 2013

treestar

(82,383 posts)
3. The building is rarely ever used?
Sat Dec 28, 2013, 05:56 PM
Dec 2013

I don't see it as a problem; it will employ people, and the building has to be preserved.

GoCubsGo

(34,807 posts)
5. Wish we had all the money that was wasted shutting down the government.
Sat Dec 28, 2013, 06:06 PM
Dec 2013

What was it? $24 billion? It could have used it here...

 

Rex

(65,616 posts)
6. Screw that...24 billion was wasted in the shutdown to punish 750k federal employees
Sat Dec 28, 2013, 06:11 PM
Dec 2013

for doing their jobs and millions of others working for the government. These people don't care to a level unheard of really. There idea of a government is one they run unilaterally with no input from the working class.

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