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Donating to Obama -- Against Our Will

rwilliams756 Wrote: Aug 17, 2012 9:30 AM

Answer me this, what should the ultimate purpose of government be? Should the Government be the ultimate slave owner as in Obama's administration? NO. the purpose of government is to become obsolete, try reading the Constitution and the ammendments. Get Government off our backs and out of our pockets and WE THE PEOPLE can turn this economy around. the governmant sould not be in the business of picking the winners, let the market do it.

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Donating to Obama -- Against Our Will

The Washington Times reports that the Department of Labor will be giving out $100 million in "grant funding" to states to prevent layoffs by businesses (which, obviously, would damage the President politically).

Under the plan, the federal grants will go to states, which will then hand it out to businesses that agree to pay employees as part-time workers, rather than laying them off. Our tax dollars will be used to supplement the part-time pay so that they receive their full-time salaries.

Obviously, this gambit is a thinly-disguised scheme to use taxpayer money for the President's...