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Why Eating Healthy Costs More 0

Assault On America / Corporate Assholery / Economics / Health / Lifestyle / Politics

Why Eating Healthy Costs More

    It’s true, eating  healthy costs more. At least it does upfront, the personal and national (not to mention genetic) health costs down the line are far cheaper. The problem is with limited funds to feed yourself or your family it’s a difficult choice to make for many. It all boils down to corporate lobbying efforts, the perpetual profit chase and a general f*ck you, pay me attitude. The government subsidizes certain industries which result in those crops becoming dominate and it’s products cheaper. Corporations lobby and buy off agencies and politicians in order to do what’s best for...

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Assault On America / Corporate Assholery / Current Events / Evil / News / World News

Bob Dilenschneider and Fox and Friends Fail At Spinning News Corp Hacking Scandal

Rupert Murdoch’s multinational media behemoth News Corp. is under intense scrutiny for a hacking scandal perpetrated by one of its newspaper properties. The weekly tabloid, News of the World hacked into the cellphone voicemail of a 13-year-old missing girl. The incident is almost ten years old as the girl went missing in 2002 and her body found about 6 months later. Why is this all coming back now? The case was finally resolved as the girl’s murderer was found guilty and convicted two weeks ago. With the ending of the case more details came to light regarding the hacking. But...

You Decide What To Fund If The Debt Ceiling Isn’t Raised 2

Economics / Government

You Decide What To Fund If The Debt Ceiling Isn’t Raised

Bloomberg Government created this tool that puts you in control of the federal budget to let you figure out what you would pay for or not in the event that the debt ceiling negotiations fall through. August Invoices Show U.S. Treasury’s Limited Choices The U.S. government, whose legal authority to borrow money expires on or about Aug. 2, expects to take in $172.4 billion next month — enough to cover little more than half of its bills due then, according to a study for the Bipartisan Policy Center, a research organization. What would you do? Source:http://about.bgov.com/2011/07/12/august-invoices-show-u-s-treasury%E2%80%99s-limited-choices/http://www.theatlanticwire.com/politics/2011/07/latest-ideas-what-happens-if-debt-ceiling-isnt-raised/40029/

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Assault On America / Current Events / Government / News / Politics

Quartzsite Mayor Ed Foster Walks Out Of Illegal Council Meeting

The situation in Quartzsite, Arizona is one that should be front page national news. Apparently there have been allegations of political corruption in the town for years. Any place where the city council fires the lawfully elected mayor (Ed Foster), declares a state of emergency, arrests citizens for exercising their rights and places the controversial sheriff (Jeff Gilbert) in charge of everything should be top on the news agenda. Citizen’s have called for the resignation of the council. The city council convened a meeting on July 12th, 2011 that doesn’t conform to the town codes at which Mayor Foster informed...

Obama Willing To Risk Reelection To Make Debt Deal Happen 0

Politics / Assault On America / Current Events / Economics / Government / News

Obama Willing To Risk Reelection To Make Debt Deal Happen

The ever cool-headed Obama apparently felt the effects of the summer heat as he responded to the stall tactics of Eric Cantor and the Republicans on the debt ceiling talks. Obama and the Democrats have been willing to compromise on their biggest issues, mainly discretionary spending and programs like Medicare and Social Security, but the Republicans refuse to budge on anything to resolve the debt ceiling issue. This isn’t anything new though, the Republicans have done this since Obama took office leaving the President with little choice in many cases but to cave in causing many of the President’s supporters...