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Food Stamps (EBT Cards) For Buying Beer? Why 25 year olds beat system... again.
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viceland.com
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by
keltecp11
on March 30, 2010
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jpcx01
on March 30, 2010
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Government spending Pie chart in the article is a oft repeated lie. They don't include "trust fund" payments like Social Security and Medicare in it. Why? It's $1.89 trillion. But that doesn't count for some reason.
Anyways, better source is:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_United_States_federal_budg...
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Anyways, better source is: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_United_States_federal_budg...