February 2010
In hard times, Americans blame the poor |... →
bthny:
Welfare rolls are down around 60 percent since the mid-1990s, when welfare was switched from an entitlement to a work program that requires recipients to have jobs, said Ron Haskins, who drafted the so-called welfare-reform bill of 1996 as the Republican staff director of the U.S. House Ways and Means committee.
In Pennsylvania, enrollment in welfare (now known as Temporary Assistance...
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Casinos: Good for the State, Bad for its Residents... →
bthny:annierachel:abbyjean:
According to a new study from a Columbus nonprofit group, opening a casino in the area will single-handedly create 22,000 “problem gamblers.” As if that wasn’t bad enough, it will cost Franklin County (where Columbus sits) $28 million per year because of the increased welfare benefits, unemployment checks and other services that must be provided to the thousands...
13 Words Not Found In the English Language
killingbambi:
uppereastside:mittenstategirl:halvgal:earlyfrost:
1. Waldeinsamkeit (German): the feeling of being alone in the woods
2. Ilunga (Tshiluba, Congo): a person who is ready to forgive any abuse for the first time, to tolerate it a second time, but never a third time
3. Taarradhin (Arabic): a way of resolving a problem without anyone losing face (not the same as our concept of...
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The Matrix Defense →
thingsiwikipedia:
readmorewikipedia:
The Matrix defense is the term applied to several legal cases of a defense based on the movie The Matrix where reality is actually a computer generation, and that the real world is quite different from what reality is perceived to be. In using this defense, the defendant claims that he or she committed a crime because they believed they were in the Matrix,...
January 2010
