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Food Stamps (EBT Cards) For Buying Beer? Why 25 year olds beat system... again. (viceland.com)
2 points by keltecp11 on March 30, 2010 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment



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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