"Yer Pal Al" > wrote in message
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On May 3, 6:15 pm, Christopher Helms > wrote:
> On Apr 24, 12:59 pm, walt tonne > wrote:
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> > On Apr 23, 11:41 pm, "GeorgeWashingtonFan"
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> > > wrote:
> > > Welfare checks can be used to buy alcohol and cigarettes in California
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> > > "Senator Dutton also explained that more
> > > than half of welfare beneficiaries are
> > > parents who are no longer eligible for
> > > state aid, but still receive cash assistance
> > > on behalf of their anchor baby children."
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> > > By Kimberly Dvorak
> > > San Diego County Political Buzz Examiner
> > > April 19th, 2011
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> > > On a straight party-line vote California lawmakers gave the green
> > > light
> > > for welfare recipients to purchase alcohol and tobacco products using
> > > taxpayer money. The insanity in the Golden State continues despite the
> > > state’s $23 billion deficit and double-digit unemployment.
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> Tobacco and booze sales generate huge amounts of revenue for the
> state. Since right wingers demand trillions in government handouts for
> their beloved millionaires and corporations but scream like banchees
> at any suggestion that their welfare has to be paid for, governments
> have to figure out other ways to raise revenues.
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# That's the way liberals think - They can bolster the economy by
# printing money and having the poor buy heavily taxed merchandise.
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# In their world, the snake will disappear when it tries to swallow its
# tail.



I'm currently reading a book called "When Money Dies" by Adam Ferguson
It's about how the Germans and others "printed" their currencies to death in
the 1920-30s.
The book has are lesson to be learned, which our current politicians have
either never learned or are ignoring.