14% Of Americans On Food Stamps

Food Stamp Usage Across the Country

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"Some 42.9 million people collected food stamps last month, up 1.2% from the prior month and 16.2% higher than the same time a year ago, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture."

Wikileaks Spurs Big Brother To Strike

"The rock-bottom worst of the revelations, however, shows Uncle Sam patronizing the American people, lying to us about fundamental issues that any democracy catastrophically attacked and supporting armies abroad ever since doesn't merely deserve to know, but needs to know. Our democracy demands it, if it is to remain a democracy.

As Commentary editor Gabriel Schoenfeld wrote in the WSJ this week: WikiLeaks "is not informing our democracy but waging war on its ability to conduct diplomacy and defend itself."

Funny, but I feel more informed -- and particularly about what a rotten job the government knows it's doing in conducting diplomacy and waging war on democracy's behalf. I know more about the government's feckless accommodation of incomparable corruption in Afghanistan; its callousness toward Pakistani government support for the Taliban and other groups fighting our soldiers in Afghanistan; its inability to prevail upon "banker" China to stop facilitating the military rise of Iran (mentioned above but worth a reminder) and its failures to prevail upon aid-recipient Pakistan to allow us to secure its vulnerable nuclear assets"

No, The Big Banks Have Not "Paid Back" Government Bailouts/Subsidies

"A lot of fellows nowadays have a B.A., M.D., or Ph.D. Unfortunately, they don't have a J.-O.-B."
--Fats Domino
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"So far, 938 Recipients have had $607,822,512,238 dollars committed to them, with $553,918,968,267 disbursed. Of that $554b disbursed, less than half — $220,782,546,084 — has been returned.

Whenever you hear pronunciations of how much money the TARP is making, check back and look at this list. It shows the TARP is deeply underwater."

Via Billy

Tip Of The Spear

"These tactics are not about security… they’re about submission, obedience, and cultivating the slave mentality– that people should be afraid of their government and happily yield to authority without question or hesitation."

Angle Postmortem

How Did Harry Reid Win In Nevada? HERE.

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This makes more sense than *the one below from yesterday

*Explaining The Harry Reid Victory And Tea Party Loss In Nevada

Via Conservative Heritage Times

November Is Coming Rallies

We continue our November is Coming Events this weekend in Sanford, Pinehurst and Rocky Mount!

In Sanford and Rocky Mount, there will be free food and activities for children of all ages! In Pinehurst, we will join with the Moore Tea Citizens for a family picnic with food vendors, children’s activities, music and great speakers including Steve Moore of the Wall Street Journal.

You can sign up for specific projects to take back your government from big-spending politicians and make a difference in November. There will be petitions to sign to let Congress know that if they continue to vote for big government and high taxes and spending, we will vote against them! You will hear from some informed and energetic speakers.

Please join us:

November is Coming Rally-Sanford
Friday August 6
5:30 – 7:00 pm
Lee County Agriculture Center
2420 Tramway Road
Sanford, NC

November is Coming visits Moore Tea Party Family Picnic
Saturday August 7
12:00 – 4:00 pm
Cannon Park
Pinehurst, NC

November is Coming – Rocky Mount
Sunday August 8
3:00 – 5:00 pm
Nash Community College
Rocky Mount, NC

Look forward to seeing you this weekend.

Chris Marie Farr
State Grassroots Coordinator
Americans for Prosperity

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