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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsNo 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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No money for SNAP or extended unemployment benefits (Original Post)
marezdotes
Dec 2013
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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
JaneyVee
(19,877 posts)2. Obama has been ferociously defending extending UI benefits.
treestar
(82,383 posts)3. The building is rarely ever used?
I don't see it as a problem; it will employ people, and the building has to be preserved.
spanone
(141,269 posts)4. you should check out the military budget...that's the outrage
six hundred BILLION DOLLARS and change
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2013/12/28/342444/no-austerity-for-military-budget-in-2014/
GoCubsGo
(34,807 posts)5. Wish we had all the money that was wasted shutting down the government.
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
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.
Skittles
(170,504 posts)7. look at all the money being spent in Afghanistan